Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 28
September 28: St. Wenceslas Day in the Czech Republic, Teacher's Day in Taiwan.
- 1066 - Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror and his fleet of around 600 ships reached England and landed at Pevensey, Sussex.
- 1106 - Henry I of England decisively defeated his older brother Robert Curthose, the Duke of Normandy in the Battle of Tinchebray, and claimed Normandy as a possession of the English crown.
- 1542 - Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (pictured), the first European to travel along the coast of California, landed on what is now the U.S. city of San Diego.
- 1972 - Paul Henderson scored the game-winning goal against Vladislav Tretiak, securing a Canadian victory in the Summit Series over the Soviet ice hockey team.
- 1994 - The ferry M/S Estonia sank while commuting between Tallinn, Estonia, and Stockholm, Sweden, claiming 852 lives in one of the worst maritime accidents in the Baltic Sea.
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