# What happened on September 28 in history?

**Date:** September 28  
**Events recorded:** 58  
**Years spanned:** 48 BC – 2023  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/september/28/

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## Featured Event

**2022** — Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cayo Costa State Park, Florida as a category four hurricane, killing 169 and doing $113 billion in damage, becoming Florida's costliest hurricane and the deadliest in 89 years.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ian)

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## Events on this date

- **48 BC** — Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompey))
- **235** — Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus of Rome. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pontian))
- **351** — Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mursa_Major))
- **365** — Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself emperor. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_365))
- **935** — Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslaus_I%2C_Duke_of_Bohemia))
- **995** — Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia, kills most members of the rival Slavník dynasty. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boleslaus_II%2C_Duke_of_Bohemia))
- **1066** — William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror))
- **1106** — King Henry I of England defeats his brother Robert Curthose at the Battle of Tinchebray. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I_of_England))
- **1213** — Queen consort Gertrude of Merania is assassinated by a group of Hungarian lords. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_of_Merania))
- **1238** — King James I of Aragon conquers Valencia from the Moors. Shortly thereafter, he proclaims himself king of Valencia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I_of_Aragon))
- **1322** — Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_M%C3%BChldorf))
- **1538** — Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Preveza))
- **1542** — Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California. He is the first European in California. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Cabrillo))
- **1779** — American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution))
- **1781** — American Revolution: French and American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown))
- **1787** — The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Constitution))
- **1821** — The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on 13 October. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_(Mexico)))
- **1844** — Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_I_of_Sweden))
- **1867** — Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Toronto))
- **1868** — The Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alcolea_(1868)))
- **1871** — The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Branco_Law))
- **1889** — The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a metre. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Conference_on_Weights_and_Measures))
- **1892** — The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892_Wyoming_Seminary_vs._Mansfield_Normal_football_game))
- **1901** — Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War))
- **1912** — The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Covenant))
- **1912** — Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_S._Scott))
- **1918** — World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I))
- **1919** — Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_race_riot_of_1919))
- **1924** — The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_aerial_circumnavigation))
- **1928** — Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming))
- **1939** — World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1939** — World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Warsaw_(1939)))
- **1941** — World War II: The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_uprising))
- **1941** — Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Williams))
- **1944** — World War II: Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klooga_concentration_camp))
- **1951** — CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_television))
- **1958** — Fernando Rios, a Mexican tour guide in New Orleans, dies of injuries sustained in an incident of gay bashing. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Fernando_Rios))
- **1961** — A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Syrian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat))
- **1970** — Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser))
- **1973** — The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Inc.))
- **1975** — The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_House_siege))
- **1986** — The Democratic Progressive Party becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Progressive_Party))
- **1992** — A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_International_Airlines_Flight_268))
- **1994** — The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Estonia))
- **1995** — Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Denard))
- **1995** — Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin))
- **2000** — Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Intifada))
- **2006** — Typhoon Xangsane passes over Manila after impacting parts of Southern Luzon and Eastern Visayas, becoming the strongest to affect the Philippine capital in 11 years. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Xangsane))
- **2008** — Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit by the RatSat mission. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1))
- **2008** — The Singapore Grand Prix is held as Formula One's inaugural night race, with Fernando Alonso winning the event. Almost a year later it was revealed that Alonso's team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr. had been ordered to crash his car to help bring out the safety car and give Alonso the advantage and win. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Singapore_Grand_Prix))
- **2009** — The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1,400 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Guinean_protests))
- **2012** — Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kismayo_(2012)))
- **2012** — Sita Air Flight 601 crashes in Madhyapur Thimi, Nepal, killing all 19 passengers and crew. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sita_Air_Flight_601))
- **2014** — The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests))
- **2016** — The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Australian_blackout))
- **2018** — The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Sulawesi_earthquake_and_tsunami))
- **2022** — Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cayo Costa State Park, Florida as a category four hurricane, killing 169 and doing $113 billion in damage, becoming Florida's costliest hurricane and the deadliest in 89 years. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ian))
- **2023** — The 2023 Rotterdam shootings occurred, during which two people were killed in a shooting and arson incident at a residence in Delfshaven, Rotterdam. Additionally, one person lost their life in a classroom at the Erasmus University Medical Center. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Rotterdam_shootings))

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## Notable births on September 28

- **2004** — **Isack Hadjar** — French-Algerian racing driver ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isack_Hadjar))
- **2000** — **Frankie Jonas** — American actor, singer, and songwriter ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Jonas))
- **1999** — **Kayla Day** — American tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayla_Day))
- **1998** — **Panna Udvardy** — Hungarian tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panna_Udvardy))
- **1996** — **Aiden Moffat** — British race car driver ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiden_Moffat))
- **1995** — **Juancho Hernangómez** — Spanish basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juancho_Hernang%C3%B3mez))
- **1995** — **Caleb Martin** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caleb_Martin_(basketball)))
- **1995** — **Cody Martin** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cody_Martin_(basketball)))
- **1995** — **Jason Williams** — English footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Williams_(footballer%2C_born_1995)))
- **1993** — **Jodie Williams** — English sprinter ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodie_Williams))

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## Notable deaths on September 28

- **2024** — **Winfield Dunn** — American politician, 43rd Governor of Tennessee (born 1927) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfield_Dunn))
- **2024** — **Drake Hogestyn** — American actor (born 1953) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Hogestyn))
- **2024** — **Kris Kristofferson** — American singer, songwriter, and actor (born 1936) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Kristofferson))
- **2022** — **Coolio** — American rapper (born 1963) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolio))
- **2019** — **José José** — Mexican musician and singer (born 1948) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Jos%C3%A9))
- **2018** — **Predrag Ejdus** — Serbian actor (born 1947) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predrag_Ejdus))
- **2017** — **Daniel Pe'er** — Israeli television host and newsreader (born 1943) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pe'er))
- **2016** — **Agnes Nixon** — American television writer and director (born 1922) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Nixon))
- **2016** — **Gary Glasberg** — American television writer and producer (born 1966) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Glasberg))
- **2016** — **Shimon Peres** — Polish-Israeli statesman and politician, 9th President of Israel (born 1923) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres))

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