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
- 48 BC –Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
- 935 –Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
- 1538 –Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
- 1781 –American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
- 1787 –The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
- 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.
- 1918 –World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
- 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.
- 1939 –Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
- 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.
- 1962 –The Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
- 1975 –The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
- 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.
- 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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