Historical Events on September 28 (Part 2)

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• 1984 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi)
• 1984 Cleveland Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10

• 1985 "Every Step Of The Way" single by John Waite peaks at #25
• 1985 "Freedom" by Wham! peaks at #3
• 1985 "Janet" by Commodores peaks at #87
• 1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA F-12
• 1985 Riots in Brixton, London, rompted by police shooting of Dorothy Groce by police
• 1986 Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21
• 1986 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)

• 1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation premieres with the episode 'Encounter at Farpoint'
• 1988 American athletes go 1-2-3 in the 400m at the Seoul Olympics with Steve Lewis taking the gold medal in 43.87 ahead of teammates Butch Reynolds & Danny Everett
• 1988 Australian Debbie Flintoff-King wins the 400m hurdles gold at the Seoul Olympics in 53.17, just 0.01 ahead of Tatyana Ledovskaya of the Soviet Union
• 1988 Bronx Museum for Arts opens
• 1988 Despite totally dominating his sport for 14 years, Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka wins his only Olympic gold medal with a vault of 5.90m at the Seoul Games
• 1988 Javed Miandad scores his 19th Test Cricket century (v Aus, Faisalabad)

• 1990 Exiled emir of Kuwait visits White House

• 1991 "Commish" debuts on ABC-TV
• 1991 "Good Time" single by Ziggy Marley & Melody Makers peaks at #85
• 1991 "Love Of A Lifetime" by Firehouse peaks at #5
• 1991 "Shiny Happy People" by REM peaks to #10
• 1991 NY Yankees set record of 75 games without a complete pitched game
• 1991 UN weapons inspectors ends 5-day standoff with Iraq
• 1992 "Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" closes at Paramount Theater NYC
• 1992 "Dog City" cartoon debuts on Fox-TV
• 1992 Oakland A's win AL West title
• 1992 Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies

• 1993 Gas field in Caracas explodes, 53 killed
• 1993 Ron Wood releases "Slide On Live"
• 1994 "Cats" 5,000th Broadway performance, joining "A Chorus Line" and "Oh! Calcutta!" in the 5,000 club

• 1994 909 people die when an Estonian ferry capsizes & sinks in Baltic sea

• 1995 American singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in gun battle in Roxbury, Massachusetts; his friend Steven Sealy is killed
• 1995 Dennis Martínez' fastball breaks Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett's jaw, in what becomes his final career plate appearance, in Cleveland Indians 12-4 win
• 1995 Frenchman Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros (off of southeast Africa) in a coup

• 1995 Superhero film "Batman Forever" released in Czech Republic
• 1995 Troy Dixon scores cricket century on 1st-class debut for Qld v W Prov
• 1996 1st ODI played in Kenya between home team & Sri Lanka
• 1996 Joyce Giraud, crowned 8th Ms Venus Swimwear
• 1996 Nebraska & Penn State are 5th & 6th major colleges to win 700
• 1996 NY Yankee Jim Leyitz is 2nd catcher to wear a hockey mask
• 1996 Orioles' Roberto Alomar suspended 5 games for spitting at ump
• 1996 Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas & Alabama)

• 2003 Final game played at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, Atlanta Braves defeat Phillies, 5-2
• 2008 MLB Boston Red Sox retire Johnny Pesky's jersey (number 6)

• 2008 The last game played at Shea Stadium before its demolition happens between baseball teams The New York Mets and the Florida Marlins, the Marlins win 4-2
• 2009 The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, sexually assaulted, killed and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.
• 2012 Aircraft crash kills 16 people in Kathmandu, Nepal
• 2012 Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women travelled without a male escort
• 2013 27 villagers are killed by Boko Harem in northeast Nigeria
• 2013 Hawthorn defeats Fremantle to win the 2013 Australian Rules Premiership
• 2015 DNA controllers for the age women go into menopause announced in "Nature Genetics" by research team from Exeter and Cambridge universities
• 2015 NASA scientists announce the discovery of flowing water on Mars

• 2016 Hurricane Matthew forms near the Windward Islands, will go on to kill over 1000 in Haiti, the Caribbean and the US

• 2018 7.5 magnitude earthquake hits just off island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, setting off a tsunami that hits cities of Donggala and Palu, at least 1649 people killed

• 2018 Up to 50 million Facebook accounts hacked due to a code weakness

• 2019 Elon Musk unveils SpaceX spacecraft Starship, designed to travel to Mars and the solar system and land back on earth
• 2019 Hurricane Lorenzo becomes 1st category 5 storm to be recorded so far north and east, 1,420 miles southwest of the Azores
• 2020 COVID-19 recorded global death toll passes 1 million with over 33 million known cases (Johns Hopkins)
• 2020 Stanley Cup Final, Rogers Place, Edmonton, Alberta: Tampa Bay Lightning claim second championship in franchise history with a 2-0 Game 6 win over Dallas Stars; win series 4-2

• 2021 Russia reports its highest daily COVID-19 death toll of 852 amid its third wave of infections with less than half of the population vaccinated with one dose [1]
• 2021 US National Inventors Hall of Fame announces it will induct two Black women for the first time; Engineer Marian Croak and ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath
• 2022 Bank of England forced to step in to calm markets after mini-budget with tax-cuts by Kwasi Kwarteng drives the pound to its lowest level against the US dollar (close to $1.03) [1]
• 2022 Hurricane Ian makes landfall as a high-end category 4 hurricane near Cayo Costa, Florida with winds at 150mph (National Hurricane Center), will go on to kill at least 148 people in FloridaS

• 2023 "My Dad Wrote a Porno" hosted by host Jamie Morton becomes the first inductee into the British Podcast Awards' Hall of Fame [1]
• 2023 Nearly 1,000 people have died of dengue in Bangladesh in just a few weeks, with authorities calling it the country's worst-ever outbreak [1]

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