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