📜 This Day in History

September 28

• 48 BCPompey was killed by Lucius Septimius at Pelusium in Egypt.
• 1066William the Conqueror and his fleet of around 600 ships landed at Pevensey, Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
• 1924A team of U.S. Army Air Service aviators landed in Seattle, Washington, to complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the world.
• 1963Whaam!, now considered one of Roy Lichtenstein's most important works, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City.
• 2006Typhoon Xangsane passed Manila on its way to causing more than 300 deaths, mostly in the Phillippines and Vietnam.
• 2023The Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland, England, was illegally felled.

Born on this day

• 551 BCConfucius, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. (died 479 BC)
• 1841Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician, and politician, 85th Prime Minister of France (died 1929)
• 1934Brigitte Bardot, French actress and animal rights activist (died 2025)
• 1947Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh