Historical Events on September 28.

1. World Rabies Day & International Day for Universal Access to Information & Freedom from Hunger Day

2. 1924, 28th September: First Earth orbit completed by the U. S. Army Air Service in four airplanes.

3. 1928, 28th September: Sir Alexander Fleming found certain types of bacteria growing in a laboratory. This led to the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin.

4. 1939, 28th September: WWII- Warsaw surrendered to Nazi Germany.

5. 1950, 28th September: Indonesia joined the United Nations.

6. 1958, 28th September: France adopted a new constitution.

7. 1960, 28th September: Mali and Senegal joined the United Nations.

8. 2002, 28th September: Salman Khan’s white Toyota Land Cruiser crashed in Bandra, killing one and injuring four. Salman Khan’s blood samples were taken. Arrested by police and released on bail.

9. 2008, 28th September: Falcon 1 became the first privately-developed liquid-fuel launch vehicle to go into orbit around the Earth.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on September 28.

1. 1803: Prosper Merimee, French novelist, playwright, historian, and archaeologist.

2. 1836: Thomas Crapper, an English businessman, and plumber. Crapper held nine patents, three of them for water closet improvements such as the floating ballcock.

3. 1867: Kichiro Hiranuma, Japanese Prime Minister.

4. 1895: Gurram Jashuva, Indian-Telugu poet.

5. 1907: Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary.

6. 1909: P. Jayaraj, Veteran Indian film actor.

7. 1925: Seymour Cray, the American computer scientist.

8. 1929: Lata Mangeshkar, an Indian playback singer. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India.

9. 1947: Sheikh Hasina, the 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

10. 1949: R. M. Lodha, a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India.

11. 1953: Mahesh Kothare, Indian actor, film director, and producer of Marathi and Hindi films.

12. 1966: Puri Jagannath, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter.

13. 1982: Abhinav Bindra, the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympics.

14. 1982: Ranbir Kapoor, Indian film actor.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on September 28.

1. 1895: Louis Pasteur, a French chemist who invented a vaccine against rabies or hydrophobia.

2. 1935: William Kennedy Dickson, a Scottish inventor, inventor of the kinetoscope.

3. 1953: Edwin Hubble, American astronomer.

4. 1956: William Boeing, American aviation pioneer, founder of Boeing Airlines.

5. 1958: Tristao de Braganza Cunha, a prominent Indian nationalist and anti-colonial activist.

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7. 1970: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt’s second president.

8. 1981: Romulo Betancourt, Venezuelan President.

9. 1991: Miles Davis, American jazz composer.

10. 1994: K. A. Thangavelu, Indian film actor, and comedian.

11. 2012 – Brajesh Mishra, Indian politician, and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor.

28-September-1827

A few mountain battery trains flourished and kept the Indian component alive as part of the Royal artillery. Recently, it has been established that 8 Company Bombay Artillery survived axing and is now 5 (Bombay) Mountain Battery. This day is now celebrated as the Raising Day of the Regiment of Artillery.

28-September-1837

Bahadur Shah-II ascended the throne and became the emperor of Delhi at the age of 62 following the death of his father Akbar Shah-II.

28-September-1909

Jairaj, famous film actor, was born. His first film was 'Sparkling Youth' (1930). He was a receipant of Dada Saheb Phalke Award. Some of his films are 'Fight unto Death', 'All for love', 'Bhawani No Bhog', 'Pearl', 'Queen of Faries', 'The Enemy', 'My Hero'.

28-September-1924

In penance for riots, Gandhi, on hunger strike in Delhi, proclaimed he would break his fast only at death.

28-September-1929

Lata Mangeshkar, great playback singer, was born.

28-September-1940

Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away. He was also known as "The Chhattisgarh Gandhi".

28-September-1954

137 people were killed when an Express Train fell from a flood-damaged bridge near East of Hydrabad.

28-September-1964

The simmering dispute of India and Pakistan between the Hindus and Muslims erupted again in Kashmir. Fighting was also reported on this day in the Indian province of Rajasthan. China, which supported Pakistan in the dispute, sent massed troops on its border.

28-September-1965

India-Pakistan hostility erupts into a war lead by Pakistan.

28-September-1984

First floodlights lit ODI between India and Australia held outside of Australia at New Delhi.

28-September-1985

The first Indian Army expedition, sailing around the world in a small 37 feet fibre glass yacht named "Trishna", sailed off from Bombay. (10-1-87).

28-September-1991

Shankar Guha Niyogi, an active trade union leader of Madhya Pradesh, was shot dead by unknown assailants.

28-September-1993

Gas pipe below Karakas National Highway exploded claiming 58 lives.

28-September-1996

Sukh Ram sent to Tihar jail in assets case.

28-September-2000

Marion Jones wins the 200m gold medal at Sydney.

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