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28 September, 2004

An expected but overdue magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits Parkfield, California

28 September, 2003

Final game played at Philadelphias Veterans Stadium.

28 September, 2000

Al-Aqsa Intifada: Arial Sharon visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

28 September, 1996

Arsene Wenger is appointed manager of Arsenal F.C..

28 September, 1995

Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.

28 September, 1994

The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.

28 September, 1987

Encounter at Farpoint, the first episode of TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation airs.

28 September, 1976

R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic double album Songs in the Key of Life.

28 September, 1974

Bryan meets Janet, earth moves.

28 September, 1973

ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITTs involvement in the September 11 1973 coup détat in Chile.

28 September, 1972

Paul Henderson scores The Goal to win the Canada/USSR (ice hockey) "Summit Series".

28 September, 1971

UK Misuse of Drugs Act: medicinal cannabis is banned.

28 September, 1962

Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane,Australia.

28 September, 1961

A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.

28 September, 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.

28 September, 1944

Battle of Arnhem - Germans defeat British airborne at Arnhem, Netherlands. Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.

28 September, 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.

28 September, 1939

Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II. Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.

28 September, 1928

UK passed Dangerous Drugs Act (1925) - outlawing cannabis.

28 September, 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.

28 September, 1871

Brazil passes law freeing future children of slavery.

28 September, 1868

Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.

28 September, 1867

Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario. The United States takes control of Midway Island.

28 September, 1844

Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.

28 September, 1823

Leo XII is elected pope.

28 September, 1787

The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.

28 September, 1781

American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.

28 September, 1779

American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.

28 September, 1708

Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.

28 September, 1542

Navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives as what is now San Diego, California, United States.

28 September, 1448

Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.

28 September, 1394

Benedict XIII succeeds Clement VII as Avignon Pope.

28 September, 1322

Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.

28 September, 1106

The Battle of Tinchebrai - Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.

28 September, 1066

William the Conqueror invades England: the Norman Conquest begins.

28 September, 995

Members of Slavníks dynasty - Spytimír, Pobraslav, Porej and Cáslav are murdered by Boleslauss son, Boleslaus II the Pious.

28 September, 935

Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslav I of Bohemia.

28 September, 365

Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.

28 September, 351

Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.

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