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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