September 28th to October 4th

28th September 1985: The shooting of Cherry Groce in her own home during a mishandled police raid, leads to clashes between the police and the black community in Brixton.

28th September 48 BC: Pompey the Great is assassinated on the order of King Ptolemy of Egypt.

28th September 1865: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson becomes the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain.