About September 28
September 28, 2025 is the 271st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 94 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 142 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.
- 235 –Pope Pontian resigns. He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia.
- 1066 –William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman Conquest.
- 1238 –Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
- 1448 –Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
- 1542 –Navigator João Rodrigues Cabrilho of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.
- 1779 –American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
- 1867 –Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
- 1868 –Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1960 –Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
- 1973 –The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT’s alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
- 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.
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