September 28 facts for kids

September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 94 days remain until the end of the year. Every day is special, and September 28th is no different! Many important things have happened on this day throughout history, from big battles and new discoveries to the birthdays of famous people and the start of new traditions. Let's explore some of the exciting events, notable births, and significant deaths that have marked September 28th.

Historic Moments

Before the 1900s

• 48 BC – Pompey the Great, a famous Roman leader, was killed in Egypt. This happened after he arrived in Egypt, and some say it was on his 58th birthday.
• 235 – Pope Pontian decided to step down from his role as pope.
• 365 – A Roman leader named Procopius convinced two armies to join him near Constantinople. He then declared himself the new Roman Emperor.
• 935 – Saint Wenceslas, a duke, was sadly murdered by his own brother.
• 1066 – William the Conqueror led his army to invade England. This was a very important event in English history.
• 1106 – In the Battle of Tinchebray, Henry I of England defeated his brother, Robert Curthose.
• 1238 – The city of Valencia, which was controlled by Muslims, surrendered to King James I of Aragon.
• 1322 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor won a battle against Frederick I of Austria at Mühldorf.
• 1448 – Christian I of Denmark was crowned the new king of Denmark.
• 1538 – The Ottoman Navy won a big victory against the Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
• 1542 – A Portuguese explorer named Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo arrived at what is now San Diego, California.
• 1708 – Peter the Great of Russia defeated the Swedish army in the Battle of Lesnaya.
• 1779 – Samuel Huntington (statesman) was chosen to be the President of the Continental Congress. He took over from John Jay.
• 1781 – During the American Revolutionary War, American forces, with help from a French fleet, began to surround Yorktown Heights, Virginia.
• 1787 – The Constitution of the United States was approved by the United States Congress. It was then sent to the states for them to agree to it.
• 1791 – France became the first country to give full rights to its Jewish population.
• 1820 – People learned that tomatoes were safe to eat when Robert Johnson publicly ate a large amount of them in Salem, Massachusetts.
• 1821 – Mexico officially signed its final Declaration of Independence.
• 1823 – Pope Leo XII was chosen as the new pope.
• 1844 – Oscar I of Sweden was crowned king of Sweden and Norway.
• 1867 – Toronto became the capital city of Ontario, Canada.
• 1867 – The United States took control of Midway Island, which is northwest of Hawaii.
• 1868 – After the Battle of Alcolea, Queen Isabel II of Spain had to leave Spain and flee to France.
• 1871 – Brazil passed a law that said all children born to slaves in the future would be free.
• 1885 – Riots broke out in Montreal because people were protesting against mandatory smallpox vaccinations.
• 1889 – The first big meeting about general weights and measurements was held.
• 1892 – The first American football game played at night took place between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
• 1893 – The famous football club FC Porto was founded.

From 1901 to 2000

• 1901 – During the Philippine–American War, Filipino fighters surprised American soldiers on Samar Island, killing over 40 of them.
• 1907 – The football club Real Sociedad was founded in Spain.
• 1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott became the first enlisted soldier in the US Army to die in an airplane crash.
• 1919 – In a public vote, most people in Luxembourg decided to keep their monarchy (having a king or queen).
• 1928 – The United Kingdom passed a law called the Dangerous Drugs Act.
• 1928 – Alexander Fleming made the amazing discovery of penicillin, a medicine that fights infections.
• 1934 – The large Ocean liner RMS Queen Mary was launched into the water at Clydebank.
• 1939 – Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to divide Poland between them after invading it during World War II.
• 1939 – The city of Warsaw in Poland surrendered to Nazi Germany during World War II.
• 1944 – In the Battle of Arnhem, German forces defeated British airborne troops in the Netherlands.
• 1950 – Indonesia became a member of the United Nations.
• 1951 – CBS started selling the first color televisions to the public, but they were taken off sale less than a month later.
• 1958 – Guinea voted to become independent from France.
• 1958 – France approved a new constitution, creating the Fifth Republic of France.
• 1960 – Mali and Senegal both joined the United Nations.
• 1961 – A military takeover in Damascus, Syria, ended the United Arab Republic, which was a union between Egypt and Syria.
• 1964 – The Warren Commission concluded that there was no conspiracy in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
• 1969 – Willy Brandt was elected as the Chancellor of Germany.
• 1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, the President of Egypt, died and was replaced by Anwar el Sadat.
• 1972 – Paul Henderson scored the winning goal for Canada in the "Summit Series" ice hockey game against the Soviet Union.
• 1973 – The ITT Building in New York City was bombed to protest ITT's involvement in a coup in Chile.
• 1976 – The famous R&B singer Stevie Wonder released his classic double album Songs in the Key of Life.
• 1978 – Pope John Paul I died after being pope for only 33 days.
• 1979 – Larry Holmes won his Heavyweight World Boxing Title fight against Earnie Shavers.
• 1987 – "Encounter at Farpoint", the very first episode of the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation, was shown.
• 1992 – An Airbus A300 plane from Pakistan International Airlines crashed near Kathmandu, killing all 117 people on board.
• 1994 – The car ferry MS Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea, and 852 people died.
• 1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries took over the islands of Comoros in a sudden takeover.
• 2000 – Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau passed away.
• 2000 – The Al-Aqsa Intifada began after Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
• 2000 – In a public vote in Denmark, most people said no to using the Euro currency.

From 2001 to Today

• 2003 – A huge power outage affected all of Italy.
• 2004 – Wayne Rooney made his first game for Manchester United, scoring three goals in a Champions League win.
• 2009 – In Guinea, 157 protesters were killed while demonstrating against the military rule of Moussa Dadis Camara.
• 2010 – A massive landslide in Oaxaca, Mexico, killed at least 7 people.
• 2012 – A plane crashed shortly after taking off from Kathmandu and caught fire, killing all 19 people on board.
• 2013 – Pakistan was hit by a second earthquake, just four days after a very strong one.
• 2013 – Several ministers from Silvio Berlusconi's party resigned from the government in Italy.
• 2014 – Europe won its third Ryder Cup golf championship in a row, beating the United States in Scotland.
• 2016 – Investigators concluded that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by a missile that came from Russia.
• 2018 – The Indonesian island of Sulawesi was hit by a strong earthquake and a tsunami, which sadly killed about 4,340 people.

Notable Births

Before the 1900s

• 551 BC – Confucius, a very important Chinese philosopher, was born (died 479 BC).
• 616 – Javanshir, an Albanian King, was born (died 680).
• 1493 – Agnolo Firenzuola, an Italian poet, was born (died 1545).
• 1555 – Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, a Marshal of France, was born (died 1623).
• 1573 – Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, a famous Italian artist, was born (died 1610).
• 1605 – Ismaël Bullialdus, a French astronomer, was born (died 1694).
• 1667 – Asano Naganori, a Japanese warlord, was born (died 1701).
• 1681 – Johann Mattheson, a German composer, was born (died 1764).
• 1698 – Pierre-Louis Maupertuis, a French scientist and scholar, was born (died 1759).
• 1705 – Johann Peter Kellner, a German organist and composer, was born (died 1772).
• 1735 – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain, was born (died 1811).
• 1746 – William Jones (philologist), an English expert in languages, was born (died 1794).
• 1765 – Pope Gregory XVI was born (died 1846).
• 1797 – Fyodor Litke, a Russian geographer, navigator, and Arctic explorer, was born (died 1882).
• 1803 – Prosper Mérimée, a French writer, was born (died 1870).
• 1809 – Alvan Wentworth Chapman, an American physician and botanist, was born (died 1899).
• 1811 – Friedrich Hecker, a German-American lawyer, politician, and revolutionary, was born (died 1881).
• 1819 – Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol, a Catalan engineer, artist, and inventor, was born (died 1885).
• 1821 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, an American politician, was born (died 1874).
• 1823 – Alexandre Cabanel, a French painter, was born (died 1889).
• 1828 – Friedrich Albert Lange, a German philosopher, was born (died 1875).
• 1836 – Thomas Crapper, an English inventor, was born (died 1910).
• 1838 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, an Indian saint, was born (died 1918).
• 1841 – Georges Clemenceau, a French politician, was born (died 1929).
• 1844 – Robert Stout, a Scottish-New Zealand lawyer and politician, who became the 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand, was born (died 1930).
• 1852 – Henri Moissan, a French chemist, was born (died 1907).
• 1859 – Alfredo Baquerizo, a President of Ecuador, was born (died 1951).
• 1860 – Paul Ulrich Villard, a French chemist and physicist, was born (died 1934).
• 1863 – King Carlos I of Portugal was born (died 1908).
• 1865 – Amélie of Orléans was born (died 1951).
• 1867 – Hiranuma Kiichiro, a Prime Minister of Japan, was born (died 1952).
• 1871 – Pietro Badoglio, an Italian soldier and politician, was born (died 1956).
• 1871 – Fred P. Cone, a Governor of Florida, was born (died 1948).
• 1878 – Joseph Ruddy, an American swimmer and water polo player, was born (died 1962).
• 1882 – Alexander Kutupov, a Russian general, was born (died 1930).
• 1887 – Avery Brundage, an American sports official and President of the International Olympic Committee, was born (died 1975).
• 1889 – Jack Fournier, an American baseball player, was born (died 1973).
• 1892 – Elmer Rice, an American writer for plays, was born (died 1973).
• 1893 – Giannis Skaribas, a Greek writer and playwright, was born (died 1984).
• 1895 – Prentice Cooper, the 36th Governor of Tennessee, was born (died 1969).

From 1901 to 1950

• 1901 – Ed Sullivan, a famous American television host, was born (died 1974).
• 1901 – William S. Paley, an American radio and TV executive, was born (died 1990).
• 1905 – Max Schmeling, a German boxer, was born (died 2005).
• 1907 – Heikki Savolainen, a Finnish gymnast, was born (died 1997).
• 1909 – Al Capp, an American cartoonist, was born (died 1979).
• 1910 – Diosdado Macapagal, a President of the Philippines, was born (died 1997).
• 1914 – Maria Franziska von Trapp, an Austrian-American singer, was born (died 2014).
• 1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, an American who was accused of being a spy, was born (died 1953).
• 1916 – Peter Finch, a British actor, was born (died 1997).
• 1918 – Willi Ritschard, a Swiss politician, was born (died 1983).
• 1923 – William Windom, an American actor, was born (died 2012).
• 1924 – Rudolf Barshai, a Russian conductor and violist, was born (died 2010).
• 1924 – Giuseppe Chiappella, an Italian footballer, was born (died 2009).
• 1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, a famous Italian actor, was born (died 1996).
• 1925 – Seymour Cray, an American computer scientist, was born (died 1996).
• 1928 – Koko Taylor, an American blues musician, was born (died 2009).
• 1930 – Immanuel Wallerstein, an American sociologist and social scientist, was born (died 2019).
• 1932 – Víctor Jara, a Chilean singer and songwriter, was born (died 1973).
• 1933 – Madeleine M. Kunin, a Swiss-born American politician and former Governor of Vermont, was born.
• 1933 – Miguel Berrocal, a Spanish sculptor, was born (died 2006).
• 1934 – Brigitte Bardot, a French actress and animal activist, was born.
• 1935 – Pierre Ryckmans, a Belgian-Australian writer and diplomat, was born (died 2014).
• 1935 – Heather Sears, an English actress, was born (died 1994).
• 1938 – Ben E. King, an American singer, was born (died 2015).
• 1938 – Myechyslaw Hryb, a former President of Belarus, was born.
• 1939 – Elbridge Bryant, an American tenor singer, was born (died 1975).
• 1939 – Iain MacCormick, a Scottish politician, was born (died 2014).
• 1939 – Rudolph Walker, a Trinidadian-English actor, was born.
• 1939 – Stuart Kauffman, an American physician and biologist, was born.
• 1941 – David Lewis, an American philosopher, was born (died 2001).
• 1941 – Edmund Stoiber, a German politician, was born.
• 1942 – Donna Leon, an American writer, was born.
• 1942 – Tim Maia, a Brazilian musician and songwriter, was born (died 1998).
• 1943 – Nick St. Nicholas, a German-Canadian musician from the band Steppenwolf, was born.
• 1944 – Yoshitada Yamaguchi, a Japanese footballer, was born.
• 1944 – Milos Zeman, a former Prime Minister and current President of the Czech Republic, was born.
• 1946 – Helen Shapiro, an English singer, was born.
• 1947 – Bob Carr, a former Premier of New South Wales, was born.
• 1947 – Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was born.
• 1947 – Jon Snow, an English broadcast journalist, was born.
• 1949 – Jim Henshaw, a Canadian actor, screenwriter, and producer, was born.
• 1949 – George Kerevan, a Scottish journalist, economist, and politician, was born.
• 1950 – John Sayles, an American director and screenwriter, was born.
• 1950 – Laurie Lewis, an American musician, was born.

From 1951 to Today

• 1951 – Jim Diamond, a Scottish singer, was born (died 2015).
• 1952 – Sylvia Kristel, a Dutch actress, model, and singer, was born (died 2012).
• 1953 – Otmar Hasler, the 11th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein, was born.
• 1954 – Margot Wallström, a Swedish politician, was born.
• 1955 – Stéphane Dion, a Canadian politician, was born.
• 1960 – Jennifer Rush, an American singer, was born.
• 1960 – Socrates B. Villegas, a Filipino archbishop, was born.
• 1960 – Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford, an English politician, was born.
• 1961 – Quentin Kawananakoa, a claimant to the throne of Hawaii, was born.
• 1961 – Yordanka Donkova, a Bulgarian athlete, was born.
• 1964 – Janeane Garofalo, an American actress and comedienne, was born.
• 1964 – Paul Jewell, an English football manager, was born.
• 1965 – Christopher Evan Welch, an American actor, was born (died 2013).
• 1966 – Ginger Fish, an American musician, was born.
• 1966 – Maria Canals-Barrera, an American actress, was born.
• 1966 – Leilani Sarelle, an American actress, was born.
• 1967 – Mira Sorvino, an American actress, was born.
• 1968 – Mika Hakkinen, a Finnish racing driver, was born.
• 1968 – Naomi Watts, an English-Australian actress, was born.
• 1969 – Angus Robertson, a Scottish politician, was born.
• 1970 – Kimiko Date-Krumm, a Japanese tennis player, was born.
• 1971 – George Eustice, an English politician, was born.
• 1971 – Joseph Arthur, an American singer, was born.
• 1972 – Dita Von Teese, an American Burlesque dancer, was born.
• 1974 – Joonas Kolkka, a Finnish footballer, was born.
• 1976 – Fedor Emelianenko, a Russian mixed martial artist, was born.
• 1977 – Ireneusz Marcinkowski, a Polish footballer, was born.
• 1978 – Peter Cambor, an American actor, was born.
• 1978 – Bushido, a German rapper and musician, was born.
• 1979 – Bam Margera, an American skateboarder and actor, was born.
• 1981 – Jorge Guagua, an Ecuadorean footballer, was born.
• 1981 – Melissa Claire Egan, an American actress, was born.
• 1982 – Takeshi Aoki, a Japanese footballer, was born.
• 1982 – Abhinav Bindra, an Indian Olympic shooter, was born.
• 1982 – Ray Emery, a Canadian ice hockey player, was born.
• 1982 – Ranbir Kapoor, an Indian actor, was born.
• 1982 – Matt Cohen, an American actor, was born.
• 1982 – St. Vincent, an American singer-songwriter and producer, was born.
• 1983 – Richard Henyekane, a South African footballer, was born (died 2015).
• 1983 – Sarah Wright, an American actress and model, was born.
• 1984 – Mathieu Valbuena, a French footballer, was born.
• 1984 – Melody Thornton, an American singer, was born.
• 1984 – Yvonne Ploetz, a German politician, was born.
• 1985 – Shindong, a South Korean singer and actor from Super Junior, was born.
• 1986 – Andrés Guardado, a Mexican footballer, was born.
• 1987 – Hilary Duff, an American actress and singer, was born.
• 1988 – Marin Cilic, a Croatian tennis player, was born.
• 1988 – Esmée Denters, a Dutch singer, was born.
• 1989 – Darius Johnson-Odom, an American basketball player, was born.
• 1990 – Kirsten Prout, a Canadian actress, was born.
• 1992 – Skye McCole Bartusiak, an American actress, was born (died 2014).
• 1993 – Jodie Williams, an English athlete, was born.
• 2000 – Frankie Jonas, an American actor, was born.

Notable Deaths

Before the 1900s

• 48 BC – Pompey the Great, a Roman consul, died (born 106 BC).
• 235 – Saint Pontianus, a Pope, died.
• 876 – Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia, died (born 804).
• 935 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia died (born 907).
• 1104 – Pedro I, king of Aragon and Navarre, died (born 1068).
• 1197 – Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor died (born 1165).
• 1582 – George Buchanan, a Scottish philosopher and historian, died (born 1506).
• 1781 – William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, a British statesman and diplomat, died (born 1717).
• 1797 – Gunning Bedford, Jr., an American politician and Governor of Delaware, died (born 1742).
• 1829 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky, a Russian general, died (born 1771).
• 1844 – Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, a Russian general and statesman, died (born 1769).
• 1859 – Carl Ritter, a German geographer, died (born 1779).
• 1891 – Herman Melville, a famous American writer, died (born 1819).
• 1895 – Louis Pasteur, a famous French scientist, died (born 1822).
• 1899 – Giovanni Segantini, an Italian-Swiss painter, died (born 1858).

From 1901 to 2000

• 1907 – Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden died (born 1826).
• 1914 – Richard Sears, an American businessman, died (born 1863).
• 1918 – Eduard von Keyserling, a German writer and playwright, died (born 1835).
• 1935 – William Kennedy Dickson, a French-Scottish actor, director, producer, and inventor, died (born 1860).
• 1935 – Hans Baluschek, a German painter, died (born 1870).
• 1938 – Charles Duryea, an American automobile manufacturer, died (born 1861).
• 1939 – William Dunlap, an American painter and writer, died (born 1866).
• 1949 – Chrysanthus, a Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens, died (born 1881).
• 1953 – Edwin Hubble, a famous American astronomer, died (born 1891).
• 1956 – William Boeing, an American aviation manufacturer, died (born 1881).
• 1959 – Rudolf Caracciola, a German racing driver, died (born 1901).
• 1964 – Harpo Marx, an American comedian and actor, died (born 1888).
• 1966 – André Breton, a French poet, died (born 1896).
• 1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, the President of Egypt, died (born 1918).
• 1978 – Pope John Paul I died (born 1912).
• 1979 – John Herbert Chapman, a Canadian physicist, died (born 1921).
• 1981 – Romulo Betancourt, the President of Venezuela, died (born 1908).
• 1989 – Ferdinand Marcos, the President of the Philippines, died (born 1917).
• 1990 – Larry O'Brien, an American commissioner of the NBA, died (born 1917).
• 1991 – Miles Davis, a famous American musician, died (born 1926).
• 1994 – Urmas Alender, an Estonian singer, died (born 1953).
• 1994 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, a Mexican politician, was assassinated (born 1946).
• 2000 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada, died (born 1919).

From 2001 to Today

• 2003 – Yukichi Chuganji, a Japanese supercentenarian (someone over 110 years old), died (born 1889).
• 2003 – Althea Gibson, a famous American tennis player, died (born 1927).
• 2003 – Elia Kazan, a Greek-born American movie director, died (born 1909).
• 2003 – Olle Anderberg, a Swedish wrestler, died (born 1919).
• 2009 – Guillermo Endara, a President of Panama, died (born 1936).
• 2010 – Arthur Penn, an American screenwriter, died (born 1922).
• 2012 – Michael O'Hare, an American actor, died (born 1952).
• 2014 – Petr Skoumal, a Czech musician and composer, died (born 1938).
• 2014 – Dannie Abse, a Welsh writer, died (born 1923).
• 2015 – Ignacio Zoco, a Spanish footballer, died (born 1939).
• 2015 – Michael Burgess, a Canadian actor and tenor singer, died (born 1945).
• 2015 – Walter Dale Miller, an American politician and former Governor of South Dakota, died (born 1925).
• 2015 – Frank Martinus Arion, a Dutch Antillean writer, died (born 1936).
• 2015 – Frankie Ford, an American singer, died (born 1939).
• 2016 – Shimon Peres, a former President of Israel and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, died (born 1923).
• 2016 – Agnes Nixon, an American television writer and producer, died (born 1922).
• 2017 – Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, a Spanish film director, died (born 1927).
• 2017 – Lee Hsin, a Taiwanese politician, died (born 1953).
• 2017 – Daniel Pe'er, an Israeli television presenter, died (born 1943).
• 2017 – Jürgen Roth, a German journalist, died (born 1945).
• 2017 – Benjamin Whitrow, a British actor, died (born 1937).
• 2017 – Andreas Schmidt, a German actor, died (born 1963).
• 2018 – Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, the Prime minister of Swaziland, died (born 1942).
• 2018 – Ito Giani, an Italian sprinter, died (born 1941).
• 2018 – Bob Jane, an Australian racing driver and entrepreneur, died (born 1929).
• 2019 – José Aldunate, a Chilean Roman Catholic leader and activist, died (born 1917).
• 2019 – Ismail Petra of Kelantan, a Malaysian royal, died (born 1949).
• 2019 – Jan Kobuszewski, a Polish actor, died (born 1934).
• 2019 – José José, a Mexican singer and actor, died (born 1948).
• 2019 – Mark Zakharov, a Russian theatre and film director, died (born 1933).

Special Days and Celebrations

• RC Saints – This day honors St. Wenceslas and Lorenzo Ruiz.
• Czech Republic – It's Czech Statehood Day, a national holiday.
• Taiwan – It's Teacher's Day, celebrating teachers and the birthday of Confucius.
• World Heart Day – A day to raise awareness about heart health.
• World Rabies Day – A day to spread awareness about rabies prevention.
• Ask a Stupid Question Day (United States) – A fun day where you're encouraged to ask any question, no matter how silly it seems!

See also

In Spanish: 28 de septiembre para niños