Notable Historical Events on September 28th
September 28th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
48 |
Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. |
BC AD | |
235 |
Bishop of Rome Pontianus steps down |
351 |
Battle at Mursa: emperor Constantine II beats emperor 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. |
995 |
Members of Slavník's dynasty - Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the Pious. |
1066 |
William the Conqueror invades England landing at Pevensey Bay, Sussex |
1106 |
Battle at Tinchebrai: English King Henry I beats his brother Robert |
1322 |
Battle of Muhldorf |
1362 |
Guillaum de Grimoard elected as Pope Urban V |
1394 |
Cardinal Pedro de Luna of Aragon chosen (anti)pope Benedictus XIII |
1448 |
Christian I is crowned king of Denmark. |
1521 |
Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade |
1528 |
Spanish fleet sinks in Florida hurricane; about 380 die |
1538 |
Battle at Preveza: Turkish fleet under Barbarossa beats Spanish |
1542 |
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay |
1621 |
Battle at Chocim Dniester: King Sigismund II beats Turks |
1652 |
English-Dutch sea battle at Kentish Knock |
1687 |
Venetians take Athens from the Turks |
1701 |
Divorce legalized in Maryland, USA |
1708 |
Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy |
1760 |
Russian & Austrian army occupies Berlin |
1767 |
Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope |
1779 |
American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay. |
1781 |
9,000 American forces & 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown |
1785 |
Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51) |
1787 |
Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval |
1815 |
Joachim Murats fleet sails from Corsica to Naples |
1829 |
Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston |
1844 |
Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden. |
1850 |
US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment |
1858 |
Donati's comet becomes 1st to be photographed |
1864 |
-30) Battle of Fort Harrison VA (Chaffin's Farm New Market Heights) |
1867 |
Toronto becomes 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 |
1868 |
Opelousas Massacre at St Landry Parish Louisiana (200 blacks killed) |
1879 |
Sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route |
1887 |
Gele River (Huang Ho) in China floods, kills about 1.5 million |
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. |
1892 |
1st night football game played (Mansfield Pa) |
1894 |
Simon Marks & Tom Spencer open Penny Bazaar in Manchester |
1899 |
Transvaal mobilizes |
1901 |
Guerrilla's assault unarmed US soldiers in Balangiga Phil, 38 killed |
1904 |
Woman arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on 5th Avenue, NYC |
1906 |
US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909 |
1912 |
SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die |
1914 |
German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I) |
1915 |
Battle of Kut-el-Amara: British defeat Turks in Mesopotamia |
1919 |
Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1 |
1920 |
8 White Sox indicted, threw 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal) |
1920 |
Dirk Fock appointed as governor-general of Dutch East Indies |
1921 |
4th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Inwood CC Far Rockaway NY |
1922 |
Benito Mussolini marches on Rome |
1923 |
Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations |
1923 |
Radio Times 1st published |
1923 |
Yanks slaughter Red Sox 24-4 |
1924 |
2 US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops |
1924 |
French government names Gen Serrail gov-gen of Syria |
1924 |
Gen Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico |
1926 |
Russia & Latvia treaty of neutrality signed |
1928 |
1st recording session in Nashville (Warmack's Gully Jumpers) |
1928 |
Juan de la Cierva makes 1st helicopter flight over English Channel |
1928 |
NY Yanks clinch pennant #6 |
1928 |
Prussia forbids speech from Adolf Hitler |
1928 |
US acknowledge Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek |
1928 |
Valentin Katayev's "Kvadratura Kruga" premieres in Moscow |
1928 |
UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis. |
1929 |
1st CF interception return for a touchdown (Joe Hess-U of Alberta) |
1930 |
Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games |
1931 |
Peking (200,000 demonstrators demand declaration of war on Japan) |
1932 |
1932 Baseball World Series opens with the Chicago Cubs vs. NY Yankees (6-12) |
1933 |
Greer Garson wed Edward Snelson |
1936 |
Bachelor's Children debuts on CBS radio (at 9:45 am) |
1936 |
Brooklyn & Boston play a penalty free NFL game |
1937 |
FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon) |
1938 |
Clare Boothe's "Boys Goodbye" premieres in NYC |
1938 |
Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message "No war coming" |
1939 |
Estonia accepts Soviet military bases |
1939 |
Final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard on radio |
1939 |
Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to USSR, last Polish troops surrender |
1940 |
Michigan's Tom Harmon runs 72, 86 & 94 yard touchdowns |
1940 |
Nazi occupiers present "New Dutch Culture" in German |
1940 |
Bud Brennan, a fan at Memorial Stadium, races out of stands & attempts to tackle Tom Harmon at 3-yard line, Harmon easily evades Brennan |
1941 |
Phillies lose club record 111th game |
1941 |
Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg |
1942 |
Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad |
1942 |
NY Americans NHL team folded |
1944 |
1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise) |
1944 |
Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands |
1944 |
Nazi murders in Marzabotto, Italy (SS-major Reder) |
1945 |
"Mildred Price" starring Joan Crawford opens at Strand |
1945 |
Canadian football's Calgary Bronks changes its name to Stampeders |
1945 |
Robert T Duncan appears as Tonio in "I Pagliacci" |
1946 |
Greek king George II back in Athens |
1948 |
WBAP-TV, (NBC affiliate) Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting |
1949 |
"My Friend Irma" is 1st of 12 films starring Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis |
1950 |
Indonesia becomes 60th member of UN |
1951 |
Allie Reynolds' 2nd no-hitter of 1951; Yanks clinch pennant #18 |
1951 |
Franchot Tone wed Barbara Payton |
1951 |
Norm Van Brocklin of Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards |
1953 |
"Bob & Ray Show" TV Variety last air on NBC |
1953 |
"Juvenile Jury" TV Children's last airs on NBC, moved to CBS |
1953 |
"Racket Squad" TV Crime Drama last airs on CBS |
1953 |
Dutch government proclaims 5% general pay increase on Jan 1, 1954 |
1953 |
KOAT TV channel 7 in Albuquerque, NM (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
1st World Series color TV broadcast on NBC-TV (Yanks beat Dodgers) |
1955 |
WITN TV channel 7 in Washington, NC (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
"Johnny Carson Show" TV Variety last airs on CBS-TV |
1956 |
RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records |
1957 |
"Dollar A Second" last airs on NBC-TV |
1957 |
"Gisele MacKenzie Show" debuts on NBC-TV |
1957 |
"Honeycomb," by Jimmie Rodgers hits #1 |
1957 |
Dutch Queen Juliana opens Velser Tunnels |
1958 |
France adopts constitution |
1958 |
Guinea votes for independence from France |
1958 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1958 |
USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's |
1959 |
"Hennesey" debuts on CBS-TV |
1959 |
Edward Franklin Albee's "zoo story" premieres in Berlin |
1959 |
Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around Earth |
1960 |
"Millionaire" last airs on CBS-TV |
1960 |
"My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" by Connie Francis hits #1 |
1960 |
"Queen For A Day" moves to ABC-TV |
1960 |
"Sunrise at Campobello" premiered at Palace theater |
1960 |
Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 (off Jack Fisher) |
1961 |
"Doctor Kildare" debuts on NBC-TV |
1961 |
"Hazel" starring Shirley Booth debuts on NBC-TV |
1961 |
"Purlie Victorious", a farce by Ossie Davis, opens on Broadway |
1961 |
Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic |
1961 |
USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m |
1961 |
Walt Disney's movie "Grey Friars Bobby" premieres |
1962 |
"Brighter Day" last airs on CBS-TV daytime |
1962 |
"I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" debuts on ABC-TV |
1962 |
"Jan Murray Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
1962 |
"Tonight Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
1962 |
"Verdict Is Yours," last airs on CBS-TV |
1962 |
Alouette (Canada), 1st Canadian satellite, launched |
1962 |
Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia. |
1963 |
"King Leonardo" cartoon last airs on NBC-TV |
1963 |
"Little Deuce Coupe" by The Beach Boys peaks at #15 |
1963 |
"Martian Hop" by The Ran-Dells peaks at #1 |
1963 |
"New Phil Silvers Show" debuts on CBS-TV |
1963 |
"Nick Teen & Al K Hall" by Rolf Harris peaks at #95 |
1963 |
"Sally, Go 'Round The Roses" by Jaynetts peaks at #2 |
1963 |
"Shari Lewis Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
1963 |
"Surfer Joe" by Surfaris peaks at #62 |
1963 |
"Tennessee Tuxedo" cartoon debuts on CBS-TV |
1963 |
Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates record 25.78 mph (415 k) for 440 yds |
1963 |
Murray The K, a NY DJ plays "She Loves You" on the radio |
1964 |
53rd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (3-2) |
1964 |
Suriname governor A Currie resigns |
1965 |
Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km |
1965 |
Lava flows kill at least 350 (Taal Philippines) |
1965 |
Volcano explodes on Luzon Philippines; 500 killed |
1967 |
Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, DC |
1968 |
"Happy Time" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 286 performances |
1968 |
"Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" opens at Barrymore NYC for 17 perfs |
1968 |
Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hr |
1968 |
Atlanta Chiefs beat San Diego Toros 3-0 for NASL championship |
1968 |
Beatles' "Hey Jude" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks |
1968 |
Chuck Hixson (Southern Methodist) completes 37 of record 69 passes |
1968 |
Janis Joplin announces she's leaving "Big Brother & Holding Co" |
1968 |
Marisa Danisi of West Germany roller skates record 21.995 miles in 1 hr |
1969 |
Joe Kapp (Minnesota Vikings) passes for 7 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (52-14) |
1969 |
Minnesota vs Baltimore, gains 530 yards passing! |
1969 |
SPD wins West German Parliament elections |
1970 |
"Words & Music" debuts on NBC-TV |
1970 |
Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar |
1970 |
Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Aust) in 22nd America's Cup |
1971 |
Cardinal Josef Mindszenty of Hungary took refuge in US Embassy in |
1971 |
NY Times reports growing interest of white youth in black gospel music |
1971 |
Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile & flies to Rome |
1971 |
UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis. |
1972 |
David Bowie sells out his 1st show in NY Carnegie Hall |
1972 |
Japan & Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations |
1972 |
Canada defeats the USSR in the eigth and final game of the ice hockey Summit Series. |
1973 |
Palestinian Terrorists hijack Austrian train |
1973 |
ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 1973 coup d'état in Chile. |
1974 |
"Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" by Aretha Franklin peaks at #47 |
1974 |
"I'm A Ramblin' Man" by Waylon Jennings peaks at #75 |
1974 |
"Live It Up Part 1" by Isley Brothers peaks at #52 |
1974 |
"Papa Don't Take No Mess Part 1" by James Brown peaks at #31 |
1974 |
"Rock Me Gently" by Andy Kim peaks at #1 |
1974 |
"Surfin' USA" by Beach Boys reenters chart & peaks at #36 |
1974 |
US 1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy |
1974 |
California Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0 |
1974 |
John Lennon appears as guest DJ on WNEW-FM (NYC) |
1974 |
Mick Ronson joins Mott the Hoople |
1975 |
5th NYC Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt in 2:46:14 |
1975 |
6th NYC Marathon won by Tom Fleming in 2:19:27 |
1975 |
Bill authorizes admission of women to military academies |
1975 |
Oakland A's Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad & Rollie Fingers, no-hits California Angels 5-0 |
1975 |
The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes place in London. |
1976 |
A&M sues George Harrison who fails to meet deadline for LP completion |
1976 |
US Congress passes Toxic Substances Control Act |
1976 |
Muhammad Ali beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1978 |
Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord |
1978 |
Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa |
1978 |
Syrians & Lebanese engage in heavy fighting in Lebanon |
1979 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Earnie Shavers in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
1980 |
"Charlie & Algernon" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 17 perfs |
1980 |
Carl Sagan's 13 part "Cosmos" premieres on PBS |
1980 |
Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly Atlantic standing on wing |
1980 |
Jerilyn Britz wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic |
1981 |
Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City |
1982 |
1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules |
1982 |
NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 505 |
1983 |
STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad |
1984 |
1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi) |
1984 |
Cleve Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10 |
1985 |
"Don't Lose My Number" by Phil Collins peaks at #4 |
1985 |
"Every Step Of The Way" by John Waite peaks at #25 |
1985 |
"Freedom" by Wham! peaks at #3 |
1985 |
"Janet" by Commodores peaks at #87 |
1985 |
NASA launches Intelsat VA |
1985 |
Race riot in London area of Brixton |
1986 |
Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City) |
1986 |
Tight end Brian Foster of RI catches NCAA record 18 passes for 327 yds |
1986 |
Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21 |
1987 |
"Star Trek: The Next Generation," debuts on syndicated TV |
1987 |
Gladys Knight & Smokey Robinson on "$10,000 Pyramid" |
1988 |
Bronx Museum for Arts opens |
1988 |
Javed Miandad scores his 19th Test Cricket century (v Aus, Faisalabad) |
1988 |
LA Dodger Orel Hershiser sets record for consecutive scoreless inns |
1990 |
Exiled emir of Kuwait visits White House |
1990 |
Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame |
1991 |
"Commish" debuts on ABC-TV |
1991 |
"Good Time" by Ziggy Marley & Melody Makers peaks at #85 |
1991 |
"Love Of A Lifetime" by Firehouse peaks at #5 |
1991 |
"Shiny Happy People" by REM peaks to #10 |
1991 |
NY Yankees set record of 75 games without a complete pitched game |
1991 |
UN weapons inspectors ends 5-day standoff with Iraq |
1992 |
"Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" closes at Paramount Theater NYC |
1992 |
"Dog City" cartoon debuts on Fox-TV |
1992 |
Oakland A's win AL West title |
1992 |
Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies |
1993 |
Dennis Martinez is 7th to win 100 games in AL & NL |
1993 |
Gas field in Caracas explodes, 53 killed |
1993 |
Ron Wood releases "Slide On Live" |
1994 |
"Baseball" TV Miniseries last airs on PBS |
1994 |
"Cats" 5,000th Broadway performance (joins Chorus Line & Oh! Calcutta!) |
1994 |
"Ed Wood" premieres |
1994 |
909 people die when an Estonian ferry capsizes & sinks in Baltic sea |
1995 |
"Batman Forever" released Czech Republic |
1995 |
Dennis Martinez pitch breaks Kirby Puckett's jaw in Indians 12-4 win |
1995 |
Mary Tyler Moore returns to series TV in "NY News" on CBS |
1995 |
Singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in gun battle |
1995 |
Troy Dixon scores cricket century on 1st-class debut for Qld v W Prov |
1995 |
Yitzhak Rabin & Yasir Arafat, sign accord to transfer West Bank |
1995 |
Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup. |
1996 |
1st ODI played in Kenya between home team & Sri Lanka |
1996 |
Joyce Giraud, crowned 8th Ms Venus Swimwear |
1996 |
NY Yankee Jim Leyitz is 2nd catcher to wear a hockey mask |
1996 |
Nebraska & Penn State are 5th & 6th major colleges to win 700 |
1996 |
Orioles' Roberto Alomar suspended 5 games for spitting at ump |
1996 |
Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas & Alabama) |
1997 |
32nd Ryder Cup: Europe wins 14½-13½ to retain the Cup at Sotogrande Spain |
1997 |
Emerald Coast Senior Golf Classic |
1997 |
Newscaster David Brinkley, 74, retires after 54 years in broadcasting |
1997 |
St Louis Cardinals Mark McGwire hits his 58th HR of 1997 (34 with Oak A's) |
1997 |
Wendy Ward wins LPGA Fieldcrest Cannon Classic |
2000 |
Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits the Temple 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. |
2012 |
Aircraft crash kills 16 people in Kathmandu, Nepal |
2012 |
Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women travelled without a male escort |
2013 |
27 villagers are killed by Boko Harem in northeast Nigeria |
2013 |
Hawthorn defeats Fremantle to win the 2013 Australian Rules Premiership |
2014 |
The European Team wins the Ryder Cup for the third straight time |
2016 |
Billionaire Elon Musk outlines plans for humans to colonize Mars |
2016 |
US announces $364 million more in aid for Syrians |
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