About September 28
September 28, 2024 is the 272nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 94 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 123 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 28
- 235 –Pope Pontian resigns. He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia.
- 351 –Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1538 –Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
- 1779 –American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
- 1781 –American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
- 1844 –Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- 1912 –The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ultonians in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
- 1918 –World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1951 –CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
- 1960 –Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
- 1962 –The Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
- 1975 –The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
- 1996 –Former president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and brutally murdered by the Taliban.
- 2000 –Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
- 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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