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Historical Events on September 28

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 emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
365
Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.
935
Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him.
995
Members of the Slavník dynasty: Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
1066
William the Conqueror invades England beginning the Norman conquest of England.
1106
Battle of Tinchebray: 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.
1538
Ottoman-Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
1542
Navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, United States.
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 Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
1791
France becomes the first country to emancipate its Jewish population.
1821
The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on 13 October.
1844
Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1867
Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
1868
Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
1871
The 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.
1892
The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
1901
Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own, in a surprise attack in Balangiga, Eastern Samar.
1912
The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
1912
Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. He and pilot Lt. Lewis C. Rockwell are killed in the crash of an Army Wright Model B at College Park, Maryland.
1918
World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
1919
Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
1924
First round-the-world flight completed.
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.
1941
The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.
1941
Ted Williams, playing for the Boston Red Sox in a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Athletics on the final day of the season, gets six hits in eight appearances at the plate, resulting in .406 batting average for the year, and became the last major league player to bat .400 in a season.
1944
Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
1951
CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a 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.
1961
A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
1970
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. Anwar Sadat is named as Nasser's temporary successor, and will later become the permanent successor.
1971
The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning 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.
1986
The Democratic Progressive Party was established under the martial law in Taiwan, becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan.
1991
SAC stands down from alert all ICBMs scheduled for deactivation under START I, as well as its strategic bomber force.
1992
A Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A300 crashes in a hill in Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 167 passengers and crew.
1994
The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
1995
Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.
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 murdered by the Taliban.
2000
Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
2008
SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
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.
2012
Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port city of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
2014
Hong Kong protests: Benny Tai announces that Occupy Central is launched as Hong Kong's government headquarters is being occupied by thousands of protesters. Hong Kong police resort to tear gas to disperse protesters but thousands remain.

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