28 September

The 28t o September is the 271t day o the year (272t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 94 days bidin.

 Events 
 1066 - William the Conqueror stairts the Norman Conquest o Ingland.
 1821 - Mexico signs its final declaration o unthirldom frae Spain.
 1823 - Pape Leo XII is electit.
 1858 - Inglis fotografer William Usherwood maks the first-ever foto o a comet, the Comet Donati.
 1867 - Toronto becomes the caipital ceety o Ontario, Canadae.
 1871 - Brazil bans child slavery.
 1893 - FC Porto is foondit in Portugal.
 1907 - Real Sociedad fitbaa club is foondit in Cantabrie, Spain.
 1919 - A majority o voters in Luxembourg choose tae keep the monarchy in a referendum.
 1928 - Scots pharmacologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
 1934 - Ocean liner "RMS Queen Mary" is launched in Clydebank.
 1939 - Warld War II: Warsaw, Poland, surrenders tae Nazi Germany.
 1958 - Guinea votes for unthirldom frae Fraunce.
 1960 - Mali an Senegal jyn the Unitit Naitions.
 1969 - The Social Democrats an Free Democrats gain enough seats, combined, tae form the new govrenment in Wast Germany unner Willy Brandt.
 1970 - Egyptian Preses Gamal Abdel Nasser dies; Anwar Sadat succeeds him.
 1978 - Pape John Paul I dies only 33 days efter being electit.
 1994 - The ferry "Estonia" sinks in the Baltic Sea off the Sooth o Finland, killin 852 fowk.
 2000 - A majority o voters in Denmark oppose the introduction o the Euro currency in a referendum.
 2003 - A muckle pouer cut affects Italy. 
 2004 - The 2004 Simmer Paralympic Gemmes in Athens end.
 2009 - A protest against Guinea's Preses Moussa Dadis Camara in the caipital Conakry is violently crushed, killin 157 fowk.
 2010 - A laundslide in Oaxaca, Mexico, kills 7 fowk.
 2012 - A plane crash naur Kathmandu, Nepal, kills 19 fowk.
 2018 - A magnitude 7.5 yirdquauk an resultin tsunamis kill an estimatit 4,340 fowk on the isle o Sulawesi.
 2018 - Adam Price becomes leader o Plaid Cymru.

 Births 
 1690 - James Murray, 2nt Duke o Atholl, Scots peer (d. 1764)
 1735 - Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke o Grafton, Prime Meenister o Great Breetain (d. 1811)
 1741 - William Brodie, Scots cabinet makker an deacon (d. 1788)
 1765 - Pape Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
 1803 - Prosper Mérimée, French writer (d. 1870)
 1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French politeecian (d. 1929)
 1852 - Henri Moissan, French chemist (d. 1907)
 1855 - John Muirhead Macfarlane, Scots botanist (d. 1943)
 1859 - Alfredo Baquerizo, Preses o Ecuador (d. 1951)
 1863 - Carlos I o Portugal (d. 1908)
 1871 - Pietro Badoglio, Italian general an politeecian (d. 1956)
 1887 - Avery Brundage, American athlete an Olympic official (d. 1975)
 1916 - Peter Finch, Inglis-Australian actor (d. 1977)
 1920 - Alan Davie, Scots penter an muisicker (d. 2014)
 1923 - John Scott, 9t Duke o Buccleuch, Scots peer, politeecian an laundawner (d. 2007)
 1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
 1932 - John Coyle, Scots fitbawer (d. 2016)
 1934 - Brigitte Bardot, French actress
 1938 - Ben E. King, American sangster (d. 2015)
 1941 - Edmund Stoiber, German politeecian
 1943 - Stewart Hillis, Scots medicinar (d. 2014)
 1944 - Milos Zeman, Preses o the Czech Republic
 1947 - Sheikh Hasina, Prime meenister o Bangladesh
 1952 - Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress (d. 2012)
 1964 - Janeane Garofalo, American actress an comedian
 1968 - Mika Hakkinen, Finnish racin driver
 1968 - Naomi Watts, Inglis-Australian actress
 1969 - Angus Robertson, Scots politeecian
 1972 - Dita Von Teese, American model, dancer an actress
 1981 - Scott Lawson, Scots rugby union player
 1982 - Ranbir Kapoor, Indie actor
 1984 - Mathieu Valbuena, French fitbawer
 1987 - Hilary Duff, American actress an sangster
 1988 - Marin Cilic, Croatian tennis player

 Daiths 
 48 BC - Pompey, Roman consul (b. 106 BC)
 1197 - Henry VI, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1165)
 1582 - George Buchanan, Scots historian an humanist scholar (b. 1506)
 1891 - Herman Melville, American writer (b. 1819)
 1895 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (b. 1822)
 1935 - William Kennedy Dickson, Scots inventor (b. 1860)
 1953 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
 1970 - Gamal Abdel Nasser, Preses o Egyp (b. 1918)
 1978 - Pape John Paul I (b. 1912)
 1989 - Ferdinand Marcos, Preses o the Philippines (b. 1917)
 1991 - Miles Davis, American muisicker (b. 1926)
 2000 - Pierre Trudeau, Prime meenister o Canadae (b. 1919)
 2003 - Elia Kazan, Greek-American film director (b. 1909)
 2016 - Shimon Peres, Preses o Israel (b. 1923)

 Halidays 
 St. Wenceslas Day (Czech Republic)
 Teacher's Day (Taiwan)
 Ask a Stupid Question Day (Unitit States)
 Warld Rabies Day

Category:Days o the year