About September 28
September 28, 2023 is the 271st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 94 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 135 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 28
- 351 –Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
- 365 –Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.
- 935 –Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
- 995 –Members of Slavník’s dynasty – Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus’s son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
- 1066 –William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman Conquest.
- 1538 –Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
- 1542 –Navigator João Rodrigues Cabrilho of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.
- 1867 –The United States takes control of Midway Island.
- 1871 –Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.
- 1889 –The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
- 1912 –The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ultonians in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
- 1919 –Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
- 1939 –Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
- 1939 –Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
- 1944 –Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
- 1950 –Indonesia joins the United Nations.
- 1958 –France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.
- 1975 –The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
- 1994 –The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
- 2009 –The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, raped, killed and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.
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