What are the important events that happened on September 28? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 28: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 28 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 15, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 479,856 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaheptacontadigon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,299 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 28 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1538 –Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
- 1791 –France becomes the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.
- 1844 –Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- 1868 –Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
- 1939 –Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
- 1951 –CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
- 1961 –A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
- 2000 –Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Who were born on September 28?
- 1860 –Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist, discovered the Gamma rays (d. 1934)
- 1889 –Jack Fournier, American baseball player (d. 1973)
- 1909 –Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
- 1924 –Rudolf Barshai, Soviet/Russian conductor and violist (d. 2010)
- 1930 –Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist
- 1941 –Edmund Stoiber, German politician
- 1974 –John Light, English actor
- 1976 –Timo Hampf, German footballer
- 1977 –Ireneusz Marcinkowski, Polish footballer
- 1985 –Alina Ibragimova, Russian violinist
Who died on September 28?
- 1618 –Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)
- 1781 –William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b. 1717)
- 1829 –Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky, Russian general (b. 1771)
- 1895 –Louis Pasteur, French scientist (b. 1822)
- 1914 –Richard Sears, American businessman (b. 1863)
- 1970 –John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)
- 1979 –John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b. 1921)
- 1991 –Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)
- 1994 –Urmas Alender, Estonian singer and musician (b. 1953)
- 1999 –Escott Reid, Canadian diplomat (b. 1905)
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