About September 28
September 28, 2020 is the 272nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 94 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 137 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 28
- 48 BC –Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
- 351 –Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
- 935 –Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
- 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.
- 1844 –Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- 1867 –The United States takes control of Midway Island.
- 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.
- 1928 –Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
- 1928 –The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
- 1950 –Indonesia joins the United Nations.
- 1951 –CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
- 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.
- 1973 –The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT’s alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
- 1975 –The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
- 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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