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 271st 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.
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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 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.
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September 28 Historical Events
- 365 –Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.
- 1066 –William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman Conquest.
- 1448 –Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
- 1538 –Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
- 1867 –Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
- 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.
- 1995 –Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
- 1996 –Former president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and brutally murdered by the Taliban.
- 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.
Who were born on September 28?
- 1681 –Johann Mattheson, German composer (d. 1764)
- 1901 –Ed Sullivan, American television show host (d. 1974)
- 1939 –Elbridge Bryant, American tenor singer, one of the founding members of Motown singing group The Temptations (d. 1975)
- 1948 –Panagiotis Adraktas, Greek politician
- 1969 –Ben Greenman, American author
- 1977 –Ireneusz Marcinkowski, Polish footballer
- 1981 –Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1984 –Mathieu Valbuena, French footballer
- 1990 –Kirsten Prout, Canadian actress
- 1992 –Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
Who died on September 28?
- 1742 –Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (b. 1663)
- 1781 –William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b. 1717)
- 1964 –Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1888)
- 1993 –Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
- 1993 –Peter De Vries, American novelist (b. 1910)
- 1994 –José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (b. 1946)
- 2002 –Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman, politician, and sports executive (b. 1907)
- 2004 –Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)
- 2007 –René Desmaison, French mountaineer (b. 1930)
- 2007 –Wally Parks, American car racing executive (b. 1913)
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