On this day in History - Sep 28
- 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. May have occurred September 29, records unclear.
- 48 BC - Pompey dies (b. 106 BC). Roman general and politician.
- 0235 - Saint Pontianus dies. 18th Pope.
- 0876 - Louis the German dies (b. 0804). King of Eastern Francia.
- 0935 - Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia dies murdered by his brother, Boleslau I the Cruek (b. 0907)
- 0995 - 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: Norman Conquest begins.
- 1104 - Pedro I dies (b. 1068). King of Aragon and Navarre.
- 1197 - Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor dies (b. 1165)
- 1322 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf
- 1394 - Eleição do Antipapa Bento XIII
- 1429 - Cymburgis of Masovia dies. Wife of Duke Ernest the Iron of Inner Austria
- 1448 - Christian I crowned king of Denmark
- 1507 - Afonso de Albuquerque conquista Ormuz.
- 1530 - Andrea del Sarto dies. Italian painter.
- 1573 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was born (d. 1610). Italian artist.
- 1582 - George Buchanan dies (b. 1506). Scottish historian.
- 1605 - Ismael Bullialdus was born (d. 1694). French astronomer.
- 1618 - Joshua Sylvester dies (b. 1563). English poet.
- 1667 - Asano Naganori was born (d. 1701). Japanese warlord.
- 1681 - Johann Mattheson was born (d. 1764). German composer.
- 1687 - Francis Turretin dies (b. 1623). Swiss theologian.
- 1694 - Gabriel Mouton dies (b. 1618). French scientist.
- 1702 - Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland dies (b. 1640). English statesman.
- 1705 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland was born (d. 1774). English statesman.
- 1708 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya
- 1742 - Jean Baptiste Massillon dies (b. 1663). French churchman.
- 1746 - Sir William Jones was born (d. 1794). English philologist.
- 1781 - American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown Heights, Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
- 1781 - William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford dies (b. 1717). British diplomat and statesman
- 1787 - The just completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the State legislatures for approval.
- 1803 - Prosper Mérimée was born (d. 1870). French author.
- 1820 - The tomato is publicly proven safe when Robert Johnson eats a bushel (24 kg) of tomatoes in Salem, Massachusetts
- 1821 - Mexico signs its final Declaration of Independence.
- 1823 - Alexandre Cabanel was born (d. 1889). French painter.
- 1824 - Francis Turner Palgrave was born (d. 1897). British critic and poet.
- 1841 - Georges Clemenceau was born (d. 1929). French politician.
- 1844 - Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy dies (b. 1769). Russian general and statesman.
- 1852 - Henri Moissan was born (d. 1907). French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1856 - Kate Douglas Wiggin was born (d. 1923). American children's author
- 1859 - Carl Ritter dies (b. 1779). German geographer
- 1863 - Carlos I was born († 1908). King of Portugal.
- 1865 - D. Amélia was born. Queen of Portugal (1889 - 1908).
- 1871 - Brazil passes law freeing future children of slaves.
- 1887 - Avery Brundage was born (d. 1975). American athlete and sports official.
- 1891 - Myrtle Gonzalez was born (d. 1918). American actress.
- 1891 - Herman Melville dies (b. 1819). American novelist.
- 1893 - Futebol Clube do Porto is founded
- 1895 - Louis Pasteur dies (b. 1822). French scientist.
- 1901 - Ed Sullivan was born (d. 1974). American television show host.
- 1901 - William S. Paley was born (d. 1990). Television pioneer.
- 1905 - A Teoria da Relatividade de Einstein é publicada no Annalen der Physik.
- 1905 - Max Schmeling was born (d. 2005). German boxer.
- 1909 - Al Capp was born (d. 1979). American cartoonist.
- 1914 - Richard Sears dies (b. 1863). Businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company)
- 1915 - Ethel Rosenberg was born (d. 1953). American spy.
- 1915 - Georgy Tovstonogov was born (d. 1989). Russian theatre director.
- 1915 - Saitou Hajime dies (b. 1844). 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita
- 1916 - Peter Finch was born (d. 1977). English-born actor.
- 1918 - Georg Simmel dies (b. 1858). German sociologist and philosopher.
- 1918 - Freddie Stowers dies (b. 1896). American soldier.
- 1923 - William Windom was born. American actor
- 1924 - Marcello Mastroianni was born (d. 1996). Italian actor.
- 1925 - Seymour Cray was born (d. 1996). American computer scientist.
- 1925 - Arnold Stang was born (d. 1996). American actor
- 1926 - Jerry Clower was born (d. 1998). American comedian.
- 1928 - UK passed Dangerous Drugs Act
- 1929 - Lata Mangeshkar was born. Indian playback singer
- 1932 - Víctor Jara was born (d. 1973). Chilean folk singer, theatre director, and political activist.
- 1934 - Janet Munro was born (d. 1972). British actress.
- 1934 - Brigitte Bardot was born. French actress.
- 1935 - W.K. Dickson dies (b. 1860). Scottish inventor.
- 1937 - Alice Mahon was born. English politician and trade unionist.
- 1937 - Rod Roddy was born (d. 2003). American television announcer.
- 1938 - Ben E. King was born. American singer and songwriter
- 1939 - Stuart Kauffman was born. American biologist
- 1939 - Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
- 1941 - Edmund Stoiber was born. German politician.
- 1942 - Tim Maia was born († 1998). Brazilian singer.
- 1942 - Marshall Bell was born. American actor.
- 1942 - Pierre Clémenti was born (d. 1999). French actor.
- 1943 - Joel Higgins was born. American actor
- 1943 - J. T. Walsh was born (d. 1998). American actor.
- 1946 - Helen Shapiro was born. English singer
- 1946 - Jeffrey Jones was born. American actor
- 1947 - Bob Carr was born. Former Premier of New South Wales
- 1947 - Sheikh Hasina was born. Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- 1950 - John Sayles was born. American director and screenwriter
- 1950 - Laurie Lewis was born. American musician
- 1950 - Indonésia becomes member of United Nations
- 1952 - Sylvia Kristel was born. Dutch actress
- 1953 - Edwin Hubble dies (b. 1889). American astronomer.
- 1954 - Steve Largent was born. American football player and congressman
- 1955 - Stéphane Dion was born. Canadian politician
- 1956 - Roberta Miranda was born. Brazilian singer.
- 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.
- 1959 - Rudolf Caracciola dies (b. 1901). German racecar driver.
- 1961 - A military coup in Damascus, Syria effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria
- 1962 - Grant Fuhr was born. Canadian hockey player
- 1962 - Morre Bernardo Loureiro Marques, desenhador e pintor português.
- 1964 - Harpo Marx dies (b. 1888). American comedian and actor.
- 1964 - Janeane Garofalo was born. American actress and comedian
- 1966 - André Breton dies (1896). French poet.
- 1966 - Eric Fleming dies drowned (b. 1925). American actor
- 1967 - Mira Sorvino was born. American actress
- 1967 - Moon Unit Zappa was born. American singer and actress
- 1968 - Mika Häkkinen swas born. Finnish race car driver
- 1968 - Naomi Watts was born. English-born actress
- 1969 - Nico Vaesen was born. Belgian footballer.
- 1969 - Mark Everett was born. Former child actor, now fugitive
- 1969 - Éric Lapointe was born. Québécois singer
- 1970 - Isabelle Brasseur was born. Canadian figure skater
- 1970 - John Dos Passos dies (b. 1896). American novelist.
- 1970 - Gamal Abdal Nasser dies (d. 1918). First President of Egypt.
- 1971 - UK Misuse of Drugs Act - medicinal cannabis banned.
- 1971 - Alan Wright was born. English footballer.
- 1972 - Gwyneth Paltrow was born. American actress
- 1972 - Dita Von Teese was born. American burlesque artist
- 1973 - ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 Coup in Chile.
- 1973 - Norma Crane dies (b. 1928). American actress.
- 1974 - Em Portugal, tentativa reaccionária contra o MFA e Governo Provisório, realizada por manifestantes que pretendem apoiar o presidente da República, o general Spínola.
- 1974 - Martin Müürsepp was born. Estonian basketball player
- 1975 - Lenny Krayzelburg was born. American Swimmer
- 1977 - Se Ri Pak was born. Korean golfer
- 1978 - Pope John Paul I dies (b. 1912). 263º Pope.
- 1978 - Bushido was born. German rapper
- 1979 - Bam Margera was born. American skateboarder
- 1979 - John Herbert Chapman dies (b. 1921). Canadian physicist.
- 1979 - Felipe González é reeleito Secretário Geral do Partido Socialista Operário Espanhol e promove o abandono das idéias marxistas
- 1981 - Rómulo Betancourt dies (b. 1908). President of Venezuela.
- 1981 - Jorge Guagua was born. Ecuadorian footballer
- 1982 - Emeka Okafor was born. American basketball player
- 1982 - Mabel Albertson dies (b. 1901). American actress.
- 1983 - Inaugurado o pequeno Aeródromo do Corvo (Açores)
- 1983 - Stefan Moore was born. English football player
- 1984 - Ryan Zimmerman was born. Baseball player
- 1984 - Melody Thornton was born. American Singer (Pussycat Dolls)
- 1987 - Hilary Duff was born. American actress
- 1988 - Charles Addams dies (b. 1912). American cartoonist.
- 1989 - Ferdinand Marcos dies (b. 1916). President of the Philippines
- 1990 - Kirsten Prout was born. Canadian actress
- 1991 - Miles Davis dies (b. 1926). American jazz trumpeter.
- 1992 - Skye McCole Bartusiak was born. American actress
- 1993 - Peter De Vries dies (b. 1910). American novelist.
- 1994 - José Francisco Ruiz Massieu dies assassinated (b. 1946). Mexican politician.
- 2000 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau dies (b. 1919). Fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada
- 2002 - Whitney Blake dies (b. 1925). American actress.
- 2002 - Hartland Molson dies (b. 1907). Canadian businessman (Molson family), senator and sports executive (Montreal Canadiens)
- 2002 - Patsy T. Mink dies (b. 1927). American Congresswoman.
- 2003 - Althea Gibson dies (b. 1927). American tennis player.
- 2003 - Elia Kazan dies (b. 1909). Hungarian-born director.
- 2003 - George Odlum dies (b. 1934). St. Lucian politician.
- 2004 - Wayne Rooney makes his long awaited Manchester United debut, scoring a hat-trick in the 6-2 Champions League victory.
- 2004 - Three-time Paris Dakar Rally winner Richard Sainct struck dead in a Rallye des Pharaons tragedy.
- 2004 - Geoffrey Beene dies (b. 1927). American fashion designer.
- 2004 - Scott Muni dies (b. 1930). American disc jockey.
- 2005 - Constance Baker Motley dies (b. 1921). American judge.
- Czech Republic - Czech Statehood Day
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