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| September 28 is the 272nd day of the year. There are 94 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 351 Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius in first intergalactic warfare. |
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| 1066 William the Conqueror invades England |
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| 1785 Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51) which is better than John McCain’s 864th in a class of 899 |
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| 1938 Clare Boothe's "Boys Goodbye" premieres in New York City |
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| 1961 "Doctor Kildare" debuts on NBC-TV |
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| 1975 The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London. |
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| 1994 "Ed Wood" premieres |
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| 2008 SpaceX launches the first ever buttplug-shaped spacecraft, the Falcon 1, into orbit. |
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| 2009 The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, rapes, kills, and wounds protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre. That fucker knows how to party! |
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| 1571 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, gay Italian painter |
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| 1905 Max Schmeling, German world heavyweight boxing champ |
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| 1938 Ben E King, maybe gay US singer/Stand by Me |
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| 1942 Pierre Clémenti, French actor |
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| 1946 Jeffrey Jones, gay US actor/convicted sex offender |
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| 1972 Casper Andreas, gay Swedish actor/director |
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| 1972 John Light, English actor |
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| 1975 Lenny Krayzelburg, Ukrainian-born US swimmer |
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| 1979 [Brandon] Bam Margera, US Jackass/skateboarder |
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| 1891 Herman Melville, bisexual US writer (Billy Budd, Moby Dick), doesn’t bless Captain Vere as he sleeps with the fishes |
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| 1953 Edwin P Hubble, maybe gay US astronomer, designer of telescopes, discovers the way we were |
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| 1978 After the Notre Dame Fighting Irish lose 2 straight games at the beginning of the season, John Paul I [Albino Luciani], pope (1978), gets recalled |
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| 2004 Geoffrey Beene, gay US fashion designer, becomes unraveled. |
