This Week in History - September 28th to October 4th

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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.

Published on Monday, 28th September 2026.

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