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Norman conquest of England

960 years ago

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1934

Brigitte Bardot

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Norman conquest of England

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Famous births25

1746 · 280 yrs

William Jones

Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a British philologist, scholar and judge.

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LiteratureDied aged 47

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1803 · 223 yrs

Prosper Mérimée

Prosper Mérimée (French:; 28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, an important figure in the history of architectural preservation.

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LiteratureDied aged 66

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1841 · 185 yrs

Georges Clemenceau

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who was prime minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a central role in the politics of the Third Republic, particularly amid the end of the First World War.

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PoliticsDied aged 88

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1852 · 174 yrs

Henri Moissan

Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan (French pronunciation:; 28 September 1852 – 20 February 1907) was a French chemist and pharmacist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds.

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ScienceDied aged 54

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1863 · 163 yrs

Carlos I of Portugal

Dom Carlos I (Anglicized: Charles I, Carlos Fernando Luís Maria Víctor Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga Xavier Francisco de Assis José Simão; 28 September 1863 – 1 February 1908), known as "the Diplomat" (o Diplomata), "the Oceanographer" (o Oceanógrafo) among many other names, was King of Portugal from 1889 until his…

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RoyaltyDied aged 44

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1871 · 155 yrs

Pietro Badoglio

Pietro Badoglio, 1st Duke of Addis Ababa, 1st Marquess of Sabotino (US: bə-DOH-lyoh, Italian:; 28 September 1871 – 1 November 1956), was an Italian general during both world wars and the first viceroy of Italian East Africa. With the fall of the Fascist regime, he became Prime Minister of Italy.

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MilitaryDied aged 85

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1914 · 112 yrs

Jack LaLanne

Francois Henri "Jack" LaLanne (September 26, 1914 – January 23, 2011) was an American fitness and nutrition guru and motivational speaker. He described himself as being a "sugarholic" and a "junk food junkie" until he was 15 years old.

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1916 · 110 yrs

Peter Finch

Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January 1977) was an English and Australian actor. Born in London, he emigrated to Australia at the age of ten and was raised in Sydney, where he worked in vaudeville and radio before becoming a star of Australian films.

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1924 · 102 yrs

Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (26 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian actor. He is generally regarded as one of Italy's most iconic male performers of the 20th century.

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1929 · 97 yrs

Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar (Marathi pronunciation:; born Hemalata Deenanath Mangeshkar; 28 September 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent.

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1932 · 94 yrs

Víctor Jara

Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (Spanish pronunciation:; 28 September 1932 – 16 September 1973) was a Chilean teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist.

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1934 · 92 yrs

Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (French:; 28 September 1934 – 28 December 2025), often referred to by her initials B.B., was a French actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist.

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Famous deaths19

1197 · 829 yrs

Henry VI

Henry VI (German: Heinrich VI.; November 1165 – 28 September 1197), a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was King of Germany (King of the Romans) from 1169 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 until his death. From 1194, he was also King of Sicily as the husband and co-ruler of Queen Constance I.

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RoyaltyDied aged 31

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1859 · 167 yrs

Carl Ritter

Carl Ritter (August 7, 1779 – September 28, 1859) was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of modern geography, as they established it as an independent scientific discipline.

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ExplorationDied aged 80

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1875 · 151 yrs

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (Russian: Граф Алексей Константинович Толстой; 5 September 1817 – 10 October 1875), often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy, was a Russian poet, novelist, and playwright.

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LiteratureDied aged 58

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1891 · 135 yrs

Herman Melville

Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella.

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LiteratureDied aged 72

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1895 · 131 yrs

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur (French:; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.

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ScienceDied aged 72

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1927 · 99 yrs

Willem Einthoven

Willem Einthoven (21 May 1860 – 29 September 1927) was a Dutch medical doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiograph (ECG or EKG) in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for it ("for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram").

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ScienceDied aged 67

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1953 · 73 yrs

Edwin Hubble

Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology.

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1956 · 70 yrs

William Boeing

William Edward Böing (anglicized as Boeing) (October 1, 1881 – September 28, 1956) was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later.

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1966 · 60 yrs

André Breton

André Robert Breton (French:; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, known as a principal theorist and co-founder of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".

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1970 · 56 yrs

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) 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 Egyptian revolution of 1952 and introduced far-reaching land reforms the following year.

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1970 · 56 yrs

John Dos Passos

John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916.

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1978 · 48 yrs

John Paul I

Pope John Paul I (born Albino Luciani; 17 October 1912 – 28 September 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later. His reign is among the shortest in papal history, giving rise to the first year of three popes since 1605.

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Events5

1066 · 960 yrs

Norman conquest of England

The Norman Conquest of England (or the Conquest) was an 11th-century invasion by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish, and Breton troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.

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History

1538 · 488 yrs

Battle of Preveza

The Battle of Preveza (also known as Prevesa) was a naval engagement that occurred on 28 September 1538 near Preveza in the Ionian Sea in northwest Greece, in the same area as the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.

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War

1781 · 245 yrs

Siege of Yorktown

The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, took place in 1781 and was the final major land engagement of the American Revolutionary War.

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War

2000 · 26 yrs

Second Intifada

The Second Intifada (Arabic: الانتفاضة الثانية, romanized: al-Intifāḍa aṯ-Ṯāniya, lit. 'The Second Uprising'; Hebrew: האינתיפאדה השנייה, romanized: ha-Intifada ha-Shniya), also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a major uprising by Palestinians against Israel and its occupation from 2000.

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History

2018 · 8 yrs

2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami

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 Sulawesi.

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