September 28
Events
Pre-1600
- 48 BC - Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII.
- 235 - Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus of Rome.
- 351 - Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
- 365 - Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself emperor.
- 935 - Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him.
- 995 - Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia, kills most members of the rival Slavník dynasty.
- 1066 - William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest.
- 1106 - King Henry I of England defeats his brother Robert Curthose at the Battle of Tinchebray.
- 1213 - Queen consort Gertrude of Merania is assassinated by a group of Hungarian lords.
- 1238 - King James I of Aragon conquers Valencia from the Moors. Shortly thereafter, he proclaims himself king of Valencia.
- 1322 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
- 1538 - Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
- 1542 - Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California. He is the first European in California.
1601–1900
- 1779 - American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
- 1781 - American Revolution: French and American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown.
- 1787 - The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
- 1821 - The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on 13 October.
- 1844 - Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- 1867 - Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
- 1868 - The Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
- 1871 - The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.
- 1889 - The General Conference on Weights and Measures defines the length of a metre.
- 1892 - The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
1901–present
- 1901 - Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
- 1912 - The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
- 1912 - Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
- 1918 - World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1919 - Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
- 1924 - The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
- 1928 - Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
- 1939 - World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.
- 1939 - World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end.
- 1941 - World War II: The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.
- 1941 - Ted Williams achieves a.406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat.400 or better.
- 1944 - World War II: Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia.
- 1951 - CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
- 1958 - Fernando Rios, a Mexican tour guide in New Orleans, dies of injuries sustained in an incident of gay bashing.
- 1961 - A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
- 1970 - Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
- 1973 - The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile.
- 1975 - The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
- 1986 - The Democratic Progressive Party becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan.
- 1992 - A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew.
- 1994 - The cruise ferry sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
- 1995 - Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the 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.
- 2000 - Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
- 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.
- 2008 - Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit by the RatSat mission.
- 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.
- 2009 - The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1,400 people.
- 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.
- 2012 - Sita Air Flight 601 crashes in Madhyapur Thimi, Nepal, killing all 19 passengers and crew.
- 2014 - The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing.
- 2016 - The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas.
- 2018 - The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.
- 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.
- 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.
Births
Pre-1600
- 551 BC - Confucius, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.
- 616 - Javanshir, King of Caucasian Albania
- 1494 - Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and playwright
- 1555 - Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Marshal of France
- 1573 - Théodore de Mayerne, Swiss physician
1601–1900
- 1605 - Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer and mathematician
- 1681 - Johann Mattheson, German composer, lexicographer, and diplomat
- 1705 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department
- 1705 - Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer
- 1735 - Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain
- 1746 - William Jones, English-Welsh philologist and scholar
- 1765 - Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
- 1803 - Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, and author
- 1809 - Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist
- 1819 - Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer and publisher
- 1821 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician
- 1823 - Alexandre Cabanel, French painter and educator
- 1824 - Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet and critic
- 1836 - Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock
- 1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician, and politician, 85th Prime Minister of France
- 1844 - Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1852 - Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1852 - Isis Pogson, British astronomer and meteorologist
- 1852 - John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, British Army officer
- 1856 - Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator
- 1860 - Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist
- 1861 - Amélie of Orléans, queen consort of Portugal
- 1867 - Hiranuma Kiichirō, Japanese lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Japan
- 1867 - James Edwin Campbell, American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist
- 1870 - Florent Schmitt, French composer and critic
- 1877 - Albert Young, American boxer and promoter
- 1878 - Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player
- 1881 - Pedro de Cordoba, American actor
- 1882 - Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer
- 1883 - Albert Peyriguère, French priest, hermit and ethnologist
- 1885 - Emil Väre, Finnish wrestler, coach, and referee
- 1887 - Avery Brundage, American businessman, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee
- 1889 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach
- 1890 - Florence Violet McKenzie, Australian electrical engineer
- 1892 - Elmer Rice, American playwright
- 1893 - Hilda Geiringer, Austrian mathematician
- 1893 - Giannis Skarimpas, Greek author, poet, and playwright
- 1898 - Carl Clauberg, German Nazi physician
- 1898 - Mijo Mirković, Croatian economist and author
- 1900 - Isabel Pell, American socialite, fought as part of the French Resistance during WWII