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September 28

MesopotamianChristian
  1. 1897 CEMesopotamian · born

    Samuel Noah Kramer, a foremost scholar of Sumerian literature and author of 'History Begins at Sumer,' was born in Zashkiv, then in the Russian Empire.

  2. 1978 CEChristian · died

    Pope John Paul I died in the Vatican after a reign of thirty-three days, one of the shortest in papal history.

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