WHAT HAPPENED ON 28. SEPTEMBER
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Mali and Senegal join the United Nations. (28. September 1960)

A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria. (28. September 1961)

The Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia. (28. September 1962)

Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. Anwar Sadat is named as Nasser's temporary successor, and will later become the permanent successor. (28. September 1970)

The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning the medicinal use of cannabis. (28. September 1971)

The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile. (28. September 1973)

The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London. (28. September 1975)

The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people. (28. September 1994)

Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup. (28. September 1995)

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. (28. September 1995)

Former president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and brutally murdered by the Taliban. (28. September 1996)

Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. (28. September 2000)

SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit. (28. September 2008)

The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, raped, killed, and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre. (28. September 2009)

Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port city of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants. (28. September 2012)

A Dornier Do 228 light aircraft crashes on the outskirts of the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu, killing 19 people. (28. September 2012)

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