September 28 - Events

Events

• 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.
• 351 – Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman EmperorConstantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
• 365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legionspassing by Constantinople, and proclaims himselfRoman emperor.
• 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.
• 1238 – Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
• 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 – Navigator João Rodrigues Cabrilho of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego,California, United States.
• 1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
• 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.
• 1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congressto be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
• 1791 – France becomes the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
• 1844 – Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
• 1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
• 1867 – The United States takes control of Midway Island.
• 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 ofplatinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
• 1928 – The U.K. Parliament 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.
• 1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
• 1939 – Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
• 1944 – Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
• 1950 – Indonesia joins the United Nations.
• 1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than month later.
• 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.
• 1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
• 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 1971banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
• 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.
• 1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
• 1987 – The beginning of the Palestinian civil disobedience uprising, "The First Intifada" against the Israeli occupation.
• 1994 – The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
• 1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
• 2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as theTemple Mount in Jerusalem.
• 2008 – SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
• 2009 – The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, sexually assaulted, killed and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.