About September 28
September 28, 2024 is the 272nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 94 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 123 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.
- 1066 –William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman Conquest.
- 1106 –The Battle of Tinchebrai – Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
- 1238 –Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
- 1322 –Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
- 1448 –Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
- 1779 –American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
- 1781 –American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
- 1867 –The United States takes control of Midway Island.
- 1867 –Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
- 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.
- 1918 –World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1928 –The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
- 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.
- 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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