28th
September, on
this day
48 BC Pompey
the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy
of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
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, Porej and Cáslav
are murdered by Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the
1066 William
the Conqueror lands in England
1106 The
Battle of Tinchebrai - Henry
I of England defeats his brother, Robert
Curthose
1322 Louis
IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick
I of Austria in the Battle
of Mühldorf
1448 Christian
I is crowned king of Denmark.
1542 Juan
Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay
1708 Peter
the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle
of Lesnaya
1745 British national anthem 'God
Save The King' sung for the first time at Covent Garden in London
1779
Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress,
succeeding John
Jay
1781 Siege
of Yorktown begins, last battle of the 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
1829 Walker's
Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston
1844 Oscar
I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden
1850 Flogging
in US Navy and on merchant vessels abolished
1853 Emigrant
ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Vatersay,
Scotland, drowning 348
1858 Donati's comet becomes the 1st to be photographed
1865 Elizabeth
Garrett Anderson becomes Britian's first woman doctor
1867 Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario
1868 Battle
of Alcolea, causes Queen
Isabella II of Spain to flee to France
1868 Opelousas
Massacre at St Landry Parish, Louisiana (25-50 blacks killed)
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
1894 Business partners Simon
Marks and Tom Spencer open their first shop - a Penny Bazaar in
Manchester
1906 US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
1912 "Kiche
Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000
1912 Thousands of Unionists in Northern Ireland sign the Solemn League
and Covenant pledging resistance to Home Rule for Ireland
1914 German forces move into Antwerp, Belgium (WW I)
1922 Mussolini marches on Rome
1923 In Britain, the first publication of the Radio
Times giving details of all available radio programmes
1924 2 US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle,
57 stops
1928 UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
1928 Sir
Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his
laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin
1928 Juan
de la Cierva makes 1st helicopter flight over English Channel
1937 FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
1939 Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II)
and gives Lithuania to the USSR
1944 1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise)
1944 Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga
concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia
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.
1958 Guinea votes for independence from France
1959 Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around the Earth
1961 A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United
Arab Republic, the union between between Egypt and Syria
1962 Paddington
tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
1963 Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates a record 41.5 kph for 440 yds
1963 Italy's Giuseppe Camtarella skates a record 25.78 MPH
1965 Lava flows kill at least 350 (Taal, Phillipines)
1968 In America, the first broadcast of the cult comedy programme
'Rowan
and Martin's Laugh-In'
1968 Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in
1 hr
1968 Beatles' "Hey
Jude," single goes to number 1 and stays for 9 weeks
1971 UK passes the Misuse
of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
1972 Japan and Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
1973
ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT's involvement
in the September
11 1973 coup d'état in Chile
1975 The Spaghetti
House siege, in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes
place in London
1976 Muhammad Ali retains heavyweight boxing championship in a close
15-round decision over Ken Norton at Yankee Stadium
1978 Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord
1978 In the Vatican, John
Paul 1, is found dead only 33 days after being elected Pope
1980 Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly the Atlantic standing on the wing
1981 Joseph
Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for
killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City
1982 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1986 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
1986 British boxer Lloyd
Honeyghan wins the world welterweight title
1994 Almost 1,000 are drowned when the ferry 'Estonia'
sinks 20 miles from Finnish island of Utoe en route to Stockholm
1995 Bob
Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros
in a coup.
2000 Al-Aqsa
Intifada: Ariel
Sharon visits the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem.
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Birthdates
which occurred on 28th September:
551 -BC- Confucius
(as celebrated in Taiwan)
106 -BC- Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) Rome, warrior
1573 Caravaggio Italy, painter
1785 David Walker Wilmington NC, a black born free
1824 Francis Turner Palgrave Eng, poet (Golden Treasury)/prof (Oxford)
1839 Frances Willard founded Women's Christian Temperance Union
1841 Georges Clemenceau France, statesman/PM (defended Dreyfuss)
1849 Dudley Allen Sargent US, physician/educator (Harvard U gymnasium)
1852 Henri Moissan France, chemist; isolated fluorine (Nobel 1906)
1856 Edward Thompson US archeologist who explored Mayan ruins
1856 Kate Douglas Wiggins author (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
1870 Florent Schmitt Blƒmont France, composer (Fr‚d‚gonde)
1880 Ralph Edward Flanders Barnet VT, (Sen-VT)
1882 Jack Fournier 2nd baseman (1917-18 NY Yankees)
1885 Wilbur 'Lefty' Good pitcher (NY Yankees, 1905)
1887 Avery Brundage AAU & International Olympic Committee president
1895 Lawton Whitey Witt outfielder (NY Yankees, 1922-25)
19-- Eloy Phil Casados Long Beach Calif, actor (Young Daniel Boone)
19-- George Lynch rocker (Lynch Mob-Wicked Sensations)
19-- Michael Clayton Staten Island NY, rock drummer (Tyketto-Wings)
19-- Robert Wolders Rotterdam Holland, actor (Erik Hunter-Laredo)
19-- Sam Whipple Venice Calif, actor (Terry-Open All Night)
19-- Susan Walters Georgia, actress (Loving)
1901 William S Paley founder & chairman (CBS)
1902 Ed Sullivan TV variety show host/gossip columnist (Ed Sullivan
Show)
1905 Max Schmeling Germany, world heavyweight boxing champ (1930-32)
1905 William Northam Austria, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1964)
1907 Glen (Turk) Edwards NFL tackle (Boston/Washington Redskins)
1907 Heikki Savolainen Finland, pommel horse gymnast (Olympic-gold-1948)
1909 Al Capp New Haven Ct, cartoonist (Li'l Abner)
1910 Fran Lee NYC, actress (Ms Wong-Major Dell Conway)
1911 Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr tennis (US Open 1931,32)/golf player
1913 Alice Marble tennis player (US Open 1936, 1938-40)
1913 Vivian Fine Chicago Ill, composer (Women in the Garden)
1914 Harold Taylor Canada, educator (Art & the Future)
1916 Peter Finch actor (Network, Windom's Way, Raid on Entebbe)
1917 Michael Somes England, ballet dancer (Royal Ballet in London)
1919 Thomas Harmon football player/sportscaster (Heisman winner)
1922 Joe Silver Chicago Ill, actor (Mr I Magination, Fay)
1923 Fred Robbins Balt Md, DJ (Coke Time with Eddie Fisher, Robbins
Nest)
1923 William Windom NYC, actor (Farmer's Daughter, Murder She Wrote)
1924 Marcello Mastroianni actor (8«, La Dolce Vita)
1925 Arnold Stang Mass, comedian/actor (Broadside, Milton Berle, Top
Cat)
1925 Seymour Cray inventor (Cray I computer)
1926 Jerry Clower Amite County Miss, country comedian (Nashville on
Road)
1933 Madeleine M Kunin Switzerland (Gov-D-Vt), 1st Jewish gov of Vermont
1934 Brigitte Bardot Paris France, sex kitten (And God Created Women)
1936 Robert Hogan NYC, actor (Peyton Place, Operation Petticoat)
1938 Ben E King NC, singer (Stand by Me)
1940 Alexander S Ivanchenkov cosmonaut (Soyuz 29, T-6)
1941 Charley Taylor NFL wide receiver/running back (Wash Redskin)
1942 Grant Jackson pitcher (1972 NY Yankees)
1943 Gertrud "Traudl" Hecher Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1943 Joel Higgins Bloomington Ill, actor (Salvage 1, Silver Spoons)
1946 Fiona Lewis Westcliff England, actress (Stunts, Lisztomania)
1946 Herbert Jefferson Jr Jersey City NJ, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1946 Larry Breeding Winchester Ill, actor (Who's Watching the Kids?)
1948 Helen Shapiro London England, rocker (Straighten Up)
1948 Marielle Goitschel France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 Phil Hartman comedian (SNL)
1951 Christian Marlowe LA Calif, actor (Bram-Highcliffe Manor)
1951 Dave Rajsich pitcher (NY Yankees)
1952 Sylvia Kristel Holland, actress (Emmanuelle, Priv School for
Girls)
1954 Steve Largent wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1958 Lory Del Santo Verona Italy, (Miss Italy-1980)
1961 Anne White Charleston WV, tennis (Wore spandex in '85 Wimbledon)
1962 Luis Enrique spanish singer (Luces del Alma)
1967 Moon Unit Zappa rocker (Valley Girl), Frank's daughter
1968 Carr‚ Otis SF Calif, actress (Wild Orchid)
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Deaths which occurred
on September 28th:
1833 Lemuel Haynes Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88
1953 Edwin P Hubble astronomer, designer of telescopes, dies at 63
1954 Bert Lytell actor (Henry-One Man's Family), dies at 69
1957 Albert Ascoli Italian developed anti-tuberculosis vaccine, dies
1961 Michael Shepley actor (Dick & the Duchess), dies at 54
1964 Harpo Marx comedian (Marx Bros), dies at 75
1966 Eric Fleming actor (Gil-Rawhide), dies at 41
1970 Nasser Egyptian Pres, dies of a heart attack at 52 replaced by
Sadat
1973 Norma Crane actress (Rayola-Mr Peepers), dies at 42
1975 Sidney Fields comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 77
1978 Pope John Paul I 65-yr-old found dead, after only 33 days as
Pope
1979 Jimmy McCulloch guitarist of Wings, dies at 26
1982 Larry Breeding (Who's Watching the Kids?), dies on 36th birthday
1982 Mabel Albertson actress, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 81
1989 Ferdinand Marcos deposed president of Phillipines, dies
1991 Miles Davis jazz musician, dies at 65 from pneumonia
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