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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1781 –American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American 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 approval.
- 1791 –France becomes the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
- 1867 –Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
- 1868 –Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
- 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.
- 1918 –World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1928 –The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
- 1939 –Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
- 1962 –The Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
- 1971 –The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
- 1975 –The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
- 1995 –Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
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