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 271^st 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 15, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 488,616 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 ‘dihectaheptacontahenagon’ day.

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 142 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 4,664 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 28 Historical Events

• 48 BC –
  Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
• 935 –
  Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
• 1238 –
  Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
• 1844 –
  Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
• 1871 –
  Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.
• 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.
• 1950 –
  Indonesia joins 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.
• 1996 –
  Former president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and brutally murdered by the Taliban.

Who were born on September 28?

• 1809 –
  Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899)
• 1836 –
  Thomas Crapper, English inventor (d. 1910)
• 1856 –
  Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children’s author (d. 1923)
• 1887 –
  Avery Brundage, American athlete and sports official (d. 1975)
• 1924 –
  Rudolf Barshai, Soviet/Russian conductor and violist (d. 2010)
• 1925 –
  Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991)
• 1952 –
  Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress
• 1954 –
  George Lynch, American musician (Dokken)
• 1959 –
  Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver
• 1966 –
  Puri Jagannadh, Indian film director

Who died on September 28?

• 1104 –
  Pedro I, king of Aragon and Navarre (b. 1068)
• 1618 –
  Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)
• 1873 –
  Émile Gaboriau, French writer and journalist (b. 1832)
• 1895 –
  Louis Pasteur, French scientist (b. 1822)
• 1915 –
  Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (b. 1844)
• 1918 –
  Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)
• 1970 –
  John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)
• 1993 –
  Fraser MacPherson, Canadian jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
• 2003 –
  Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)
• 2007 –
  René Desmaison, French mountaineer (b. 1930)