WHAT HAPPENED ON 28. SEPTEMBER
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Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France. (28. September 1868)

Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil. (28. September 1871)

Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination. (28. September 1885)

The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice. (28. September 1889)

The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal. (28. September 1892)

Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own, in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island. (28. September 1901)

The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ulster Protestants in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill. (28. September 1912)

Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. He and pilot Lt. Lewis C. Rockwell are killed in the crash of an Army Wright Model B at College Park, Maryland. (28. September 1912)

World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins. (28. September 1918)

Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US. (28. September 1919)

First round-the-world flight completed. (28. September 1924)

The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis. (28. September 1928)

Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin. (28. September 1928)

Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II. (28. September 1939)

Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II. (28. September 1939)

The Drama Uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins. (28. September 1941)

Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia. (28. September 1944)

Indonesia joins the United Nations. (28. September 1950)

CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later. (28. September 1951)

France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead. (28. September 1958)