28 September History
- 48 BC - On landing in Egypt, Pompey is murdered on the orders of Ptolemy.
- 855 - The Emperor Lothar dies in Gaul, and his kingdom is divided between his three sons.
- 1066 - William, Duke of Normandy, soon to be known as William the Conqueror invades England.
- 1106 - King Henry of England defeats his brother Robert at the Battle of Tinchebrai and reunites England and Normandy.
- 1238 - James of Aragon retakes Valencia, Spain, from the Arabs.
- 1607 - Samuel de Champlain and his colonists return to France from Port Royal Nova Scotia.
- 1794 - The Anglo-Russian-Austrian Alliance of St. Petersburg, which is directed against France, is signed.
- 1864 - Union General William Rosecrans blames his defeat at Chickamauga on two of his subordinate generals. They are later exonerated by a court of inquiry.
- 1874 - Colonel Ronald Mackenzie raids a war camp of Comanche and Kiowa at the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon, Texas, slaughtering 2,000 of their horses.
- 1904 - A woman is placed under arrest for smoking a cigarette on New York's Fifth Avenue.
- 1912 - W.C. Handy's "Memphis Blues" is published.
- 1913 - Race riots in Harriston, Mississippi, kill 10 people.
- 1924 - Three U.S. Army aircraft arrive in Seattle, Washington after completing a 22 day round-the-world flight.
- 1959 - Explorer VI, the U.S. satellite, takes the first video pictures of earth.
28 September Birthdays
- 1820 - Fredrich Engels, socialist who collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.
- 1901 - Ed Sullivan, television host.
- 1909 - Al Capp, cartoonist who created the "Li'l Abner" comic strip.
- 1915 - Ethel Rosenburg, who, with her husband Julius, became one of the first American civilians executed for espionage.
- 1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2).
- 1934 - Brigitte Bardot, French actress.
- 1938 - Ben E. King, lead singer of The Drifters and composer of "Spanish Harlem" and "Stand by Me."
- 1938 - Koko Taylor, blues singer.