Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on September 28 throughout history.
On 28 September 2023, two shootings occurred in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The first, in which two people were killed, was at a residence on Heiman Dullaertplein, followed by a secon…
The 2023 Rotterdam shootings occurred, during which two people were killed in a shooting and arson incident at a…
Hurricane Ian was a large and catastrophic tropical cyclone that became the third costliest weather disaster on record worldwide. It was also the deadliest hurricane to strike the…
Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cayo Costa State Park, Florida as a category four hurricane, killing 169 and doing…
On 28 September 2018, a shallow, large earthquake struck in the neck of the Minahasa Peninsula, Indonesia, with its epicentre located in the mountainous Donggala Regency, Central …
The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.
The South Australian blackout of 2016 was a widespread power outage in South Australia that occurred as a result of storm damage to electricity transmission infrastructure on 28 S…
The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas.
A series of sit-in street protests, often called the Umbrella Revolution and sometimes used interchangeably with Umbrella Movement, or Occupy Movement, occurred in Hong Kong from …
The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing.
The Battle of Kismayo was an offensive led by the Kenya Defence Forces, under the codename Operation Sledge Hammer, to seize the port city of Kismayo, Somalia, from Al-Shabaab fro…
Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from…
Sita Air Flight 601 (ST601/STA601) was a Nepalese domestic passenger flight, operated by Sita Air from Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal's capital Kathmandu to Tenzing-Hill…
Sita Air Flight 601 crashes in Madhyapur Thimi, Nepal, killing all 19 passengers and crew.
The 2009 Guinean protests were an opposition rally in Conakry, Guinea on 28 September 2009, with about 50,000 participants demonstrating against the junta government that came to …
The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1,400 people.
Falcon 1 was a two-stage small-lift launch vehicle that was operated from 2006 to 2009 by SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer. On September 28, 2008, Falcon 1 became the fi…
Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit by the…
The 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, formally known as the 2008 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix, was a Formula One race held on 28 September 2008 at 20:00 SST at the newly built …
The Singapore Grand Prix is held as Formula One's inaugural night race, with Fernando Alonso winning the event. Almost…
Typhoon Xangsane, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Milenyo, was a strong and deadly typhoon that affected the Philippines, and Indochina during the 2006 Pacific typhoon season.
Typhoon Xangsane passes over Manila after impacting parts of Southern Luzon and Eastern Visayas, becoming the…
The Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a major uprising by Palestinians against Israel and its occupation from 2000. Initially sparked by civilian protests i…
Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Robert Denard was a French mercenary. He served as the de facto military leader of the Comoros twice, first from 13 May 1978 to 15 December 1989 and again briefly from 28 Septembe…
Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.
Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli statesman and general who was the prime minister of Israel, having served from 1974 to 1977 and again from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. He wa…
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and…
MS Estonia was a car-passenger ferry built in 1980 for the Finnish shipping company Rederi Ab Sally by Meyer Werft, in Papenburg, West Germany. She was deployed on ferry routes be…
The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268 was an Airbus A300, registration AP-BCP, which crashed while approaching Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport on 28 September 199…
A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a Taiwanese nationalist political party in Taiwan. As the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition, one of the two main political camps …
The Democratic Progressive Party becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan.
The Spaghetti House siege took place between 28 September and 3 October 1975. An attempted robbery of the Spaghetti House restaurant in Knightsbridge, London, went wrong and the p…
The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
ITT Inc., formerly ITT Corporation, is an American manufacturing company based in Stamford, Connecticut. The company produces specialty components for the aerospace, transportatio…
The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile.
Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptia…
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.