Significant Events on September 28

September 28 — a date of turning points across history. In 48 BC, the great Roman

general Pompey the Great met his end in Egypt, assassinated on the orders of King

Ptolemy XIII after losing to Julius Caesar — a dramatic fall in Rome’s power struggles.

By 1542, the spirit of exploration carried Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo to the Pacific coast,

where he became the first European to set foot in what is now California. Centuries later,

in 1928, a chance observation by Alexander Fleming changed medicine forever.

His discovery of penicillin opened the age of antibiotics, saving millions of lives.

But on 1939, the world edged deeper into war: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union