On this day in History - Sep. 28

• 551 BC - Confucius was born (d. 0479 BC). Chinese philosopher.
• 58 BC - Livia Drusilla was born (d. 0029). Wife of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus.
• 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.
• 0351 - Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
• 0365 - Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.
• 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.
• 1106 - The Battle of Tinchebrai - Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose
• 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.
• 1330 - Nicolas Flamel was born (d. 1418). French alchemist.
  
• 1394 - Benedict XIII succeeds Clement VII as Avignon Pope.
• 1429 - Cymburgis of Masovia dies. Wife of Duke Ernest the Iron of Inner Austria
• 1448 - Christian I crowned king of Denmark
• 1493 - Agnolo Firenzuola was born (d. 1545). Italian poet.
• 1507 - Afonso de Albuquerque conquista Ormuz.
• 1530 - Andrea del Sarto dies. Italian painter.
• 1542 - Navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives as what is now San Diego
• 1571 - 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.
• 1606 - The city of Ibarra (Ecuador) is founded.
• 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.
• 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 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 newly 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.
• 1821 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs was born (d. 1874). American politician.
• 1823 - Leo XII is elected as Pope
• 1823 - Alexandre Cabanel was born (d. 1889). French painter.
• 1824 - Francis Turner Palgrave was born (d. 1897). British critic and poet.
• 1835 - Sai Baba of Shirdi was born.
• 1836 - Thomas Crapper was born (d. 1910). English inventor.
• 1841 - Georges Clemenceau was born (d. 1929). French politician.
• 1844 - Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden
• 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.
• 1861 - Amélie of Orléans was born (d. 1951). Queen of Portugal.
• 1863 - Carlos I was born († 1908). King of Portugal.
• 1865 - D. Amélia was born. Queen of Portugal (1889 - 1908).
• 1867 - Toronto, Ontario becomes the capital of Ontario
• 1867 - The United States takes control of Midway Island.
• 1867 - Hiranuma Kiichirō was born (d. 1952). Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1868 - Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
• 1871 - Brazil passes law freeing future children of slaves.
• 1872 - Wrexham Football Club (nicknamed The Red Dragons) is founded in Wrexham, north-east Wales
• 1873 - Émile Gaboriau dies (b. 1832). French writer and journalist.
• 1881 - Pedro de Cordoba was born (d. 1950). American actor.
• 1887 - Avery Brundage was born (d. 1975). American athlete and sports official.
• 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.
• 1889 - Jack Fournier was born (d. 1973). American baseball player.
• 1891 - Club Atletico Peñarol is founded under the name of Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club
• 1891 - Myrtle Gonzalez was born (d. 1918). American actress.
• 1891 - Herman Melville dies (b. 1819). American novelist.
• 1893 - Futebol Clube do Porto is founded
• 1893 - Giannis Skaribas was born (d. 1984). Greek writer, dramatist and poet.
• 1895 - Louis Pasteur dies (b. 1822). French scientist.
• 1898 - Carl Clauberg was born (d. 1957). Nazi concentration camp doctor.
• 1901 - Ed Sullivan was born (d. 1974). American television show host.
• 1901 - William S. Paley was born (d. 1990). American radio and television executive.
• 1905 - A Teoria da Relatividade de Einstein é publicada no Annalen der Physik.
• 1905 - Max Schmeling was born (d. 2005). German boxer.
• 1907 - Bhagat Singh one of the most influential revolutionaries of Indian independence movement was born in the Khatkar Kalan village near Banga in the Lyallpur district of Punjab.
• 1907 - Heikki Savolainen was born (d. 1997). Finnish gymnast.
• 1909 - Al Capp was born (d. 1979). American cartoonist.
• 1910 - Diosdado Macapagal was born (d. 1997). 9^th President of the Philippines.
  
• 1910 - Wenceslao Vinzons was born (d. 1942). Filipino politician and resistance leader.
  
• 1913 - Warja Honegger-Lavater was born. Swiss artist and illustrator.
• 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 - Ángel Labruna was born (d. 1983). Argentinian football player and coach.
• 1918 - Georg Simmel dies (b. 1858). German sociologist and philosopher.
• 1918 - Freddie Stowers dies (b. 1896). American soldier.
• 1923 - John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch was born (d. 2007). British politician.
• 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.
• 1925 - Cromwell Everson was born (d. 1991). South African composer.
• 1925 - Eurico de Melo was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1926 - Jerry Clower was born (d. 1998). American comedian
• 1928 - UK passed Dangerous Drugs Act.
• 1928 - Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
• 1929 - Lata Mangeshkar was born. Indian playback singer.
• 1932 - Víctor Jara was born (d. 1973). Chilean folk singer, theatre director, and political activist.
• 1933 - Miguel Berrocal was born (d. 2006). Spanish sculptor.
• 1934 - Janet Munro was born (d. 1972). British actress.
• 1934 - Brigitte Bardot was born. French actress.
• 1935 - Heather Sears was born (d. 1994). British 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 - 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.
• 1939 - Rudolph Walker was born. Trinidadian-born British actor.
• 1939 - Stuart Kauffman was born. American biologist.
• 1941 - Major League Baseball: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hits a batting average of .406 that was originally at .3995. He is the last player to have a batting average of .400 or better.
• 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.
• 1943 - Nick St. Nicholas was born. Canadian musician (Steppenwolf).
• 1943 - Warren Lieberfarb was born. American media executive.
• 1944 - Battle of Arnhem - Germans defeat British airborne at Arnhem, Netherlands.
• 1944 - Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
• 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.
• 1951 - Wei Chen was born. Canadian journalist.
• 1952 - Sylvia Kristel was born. Dutch actress.
• 1953 - Edwin Hubble dies (b. 1889). American astronomer.
• 1954 - George Lynch was born. American musician (Dokken).
• 1954 - Steve Largent was born. American football player and congressman.
• 1955 - Stéphane Dion was born. Canadian politician.
• 1956 - Roberta Miranda was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1956 - William Edward Boeing dies (b. 1881). American aviation pioneer.
• 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 - Ron Fellows was born. Canadian race car driver.
• 1959 - Steve Hytner was born. American actor.
• 1959 - Rudolf Caracciola dies (b. 1901). German racecar driver.
• 1960 - Mali e Senegal são admitidos como Estados-Membros da ONU.
• 1960 - Jennifer Rush was born. American pop singer.
• 1961 - A military coup in Damascus, Syria effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria
• 1961 - Quentin Kawananakoa was born. Heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
• 1962 - Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane,Australia.
• 1962 - Grant Fuhr was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1962 - Bernardo Loureiro Marques dies. Portuguese designer and painter.
• 1963 - Steve Blackman was born. merican professional wrestler.
• 1964 - Janeane Garofalo was born. American actress and comedian.
• 1964 - Claudio Borghi was born. Argentine football manager (Colo-Colo).
• 1964 - Laura Cerón was born. American actress.
• 1964 - Paul Jewell was born. English football manager.
  
• 1964 - Harpo Marx dies (b. 1888). American comedian and actor.
• 1965 - Ginger Fish was born. American drummer (Marilyn Manson).
• 1966 - Puri Jagannadh was born. Indian film director.
• 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 was born. Finnish race car driver.
• 1968 - Naomi Watts was born. English-born actress.
• 1969 - Ben Greenman was born. American author.
• 1969 - Nico Vaesen was born. Belgian footballer.
• 1969 - Mark Everett was born. Former child actor, now fugitive.
• 1969 - Éric Lapointe was born. Canadian singer.
• 1970 - Isabelle Brasseur was born. Canadian figure skater.
• 1970 - Mike DeJean was born. American baseball player.
• 1970 - Gualter Salles was born. Brazilian racing driver.
• 1970 - John Dos Passos dies (b. 1896). American novelist.
• 1970 - Gamal Abdal Nasser dies (d. 1918). First President of Egypt.
• 1971 - UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
• 1971 - Alan Wright was born. English footballer.
• 1971 - Joseph Arthur was born. American singer-songwriter.
• 1972 - Canada defeats the USSR in the eigth and final game of the ice hockey Summit Series.
• 1972 - Paul Henderson scores The Goal to win the Canada/USSR (ice hockey) "Summit Series".
• 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 - Jori Hulkkonen was born. Finnish electronic musician.
• 1973 - Brian Rafalski was born. American ice hockey player.
• 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.
• 1974 - Mariya Kiselyova was born. Russian swimmer.
• 1974 - Joonas Kolkka was born. Finnish footballer.
• 1974 - Shane Webcke was born. Australian rugby player
• 1974 - John Light was born. English actor
• 1975 - The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes place in London.
• 1975 - Lenny Krayzelburg was born. American swimmer.
• 1976 - R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic double album Songs in the Key of Life.
• 1976 - Fedor Emelianenko was born. Russian mixed martial artist
• 1977 - Young Jeezy was born. American rapper.
• 1977 - Se Ri Pak was born. Korean golfer
• 1978 - Partido Accion Democratica Alajuelense is founded. Costa Rican political party.
• 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 ideias marxistas
• 1981 - Rómulo Betancourt dies (b. 1908). President of Venezuela.
• 1981 - Jorge Guagua was born. Ecuadorian footballer
• 1981 - Gül Gölge was born. Turkish model and actress
• 1981 - José Calderón was born. Spanish basketball player
• 1982 - Dustin Penner was born. Canadian hockey player
• 1982 - Ray Emery was born. Canadian hockey player
• 1982 - Anderson Varejão was born. American basketball player
• 1982 - Ranbir Kapoor was born. Indian actor.
• 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. American baseball player
• 1984 - Melody Thornton was born. American singer (Pussycat Dolls)
• 1986 - Andres Guardado was born. Mexican footballer
• 1986 - Joana Duarte was born. Portuguese actress.
• 1987 - Encounter at Farpoint, the first episode of TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation airs.
• 1987 - Hilary Duff was born. American actress.
• 1988 - Esmée Denters was born. Dutch singer.
• 1988 - Aleks Vrteski was born. Australian footballer.
• 1988 - Charles Addams dies (b. 1912). American cartoonist.
• 1989 - Mark Randall was born. English footballer.
• 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 - Fraser MacPherson dies (b. 1928). Canadian jazz saxophonist.
• 1993 - Peter De Vries dies (b. 1910). American novelist.
• 1994 - The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
• 1994 - Harry Saltzman dies (b. 1915). American film producer.
• 1994 - José Francisco Ruiz Massieu dies assassinated (b. 1946). Mexican politician.
• 1995 - Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
• 1996 - Arsene Wenger is appointed manager of Arsenal F.C..
• 2000 - Al-Aqsa Intifada: Arial Sharon visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
• 2000 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau dies (b. 1919). Fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada
• 2000 - Referendo da Dinamarca rejeita a adoção do Euro como moeda nacional
• 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 - Final game played at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium.
• 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 - An expected but overdue magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits Parkfield, California
• 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.
• 2007 - Wally Parks dies (b. 1913). Founder of the NHRA.
• Feast day of the following RC Saints : Leoba , St. Wenceslas , Lorenzo Ruiz
• Czech Republic - Czech Statehood Day
• Taiwan : Teacher's Day (Confucius' birthday)
• French Republican Calendar - Carotte (Carrot) Day, seventh day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
• Cabrillo Day - California (Cal. Gov't Code §§ 6708)
• Freedom from Hunger Day - California
• Ask a Stupid Question Day