About September 28
September 28, 2021 is the 271st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 94 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 126 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.
- 995 –Members of Slavník’s dynasty – Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus’s son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
- 1448 –Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
- 1542 –Navigator João Rodrigues Cabrilho of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.
- 1844 –Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- 1868 –Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
- 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.
- 1901 –Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
- 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.
- 1928 –The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
- 1939 –Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
- 1960 –Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
- 1962 –The Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
- 1971 –The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
- 1995 –Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
- 1995 –Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
- 2000 –Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
- 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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