World Record On🌄 September28

235 – Having been exiled to labor in the mines of Sardinia by Roman emperor Maximinus Thrax, Pope Pontian resigned to make the election of a new pope possible.

1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain was drafted in the National Palace in Mexico City.

1912 – Over 470,000 people from Ulster, Ireland, signed the Ulster Covenant in protest against the Third Home Rule Bill (Edward Carson pictured).

1972 – Against the backdrop of the Cold War, the Canadian ice hockey team defeated the Soviet team in the Summit Series.

2012 – War in Somalia: Somali National Army forces and their AMISOM and Raskamboni allies launched an offensive against Al-Shabaab in the latter's last major stronghold of Kismayo.

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