From Wikipedia: "...a major uprising by Palestinians against Israel and its occupation from 2000. Initially sparked by civilian protests in Jerusalem and areas within Israel proper, the uprising escalated into a prolonged period of heightened violence in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. [...] On 28 September, Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon and a Likud party delegation guarded by hundreds of Israeli riot police visited the Temple Mount, which is widely considered the third holiest site in Islam. Israel has claimed sovereignty over the Mount and the rest of East Jerusalem since 1980, and the compound is the holiest site in Judaism. [...] Shortly after Sharon left the site, angry demonstrations by Palestinian Jerusalemites outside erupted into rioting. [...] The ending date of the Second Intifada is disputed, as there was no definite event that brought it to an end. [...] Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip, announced in June 2004 and completed in August 2005, is also cited as signalling the end of the intifada, for instance by Ramzy Baroud. [...]"

WCH: On 28 September 1907, socialist revolutionary and anti-colonialist Bhagat Singh was born in what is now Pakistan. Later, he assassinated a British police officer, and bombed the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi. An advocate of a mass working class uprising, he criticised Mohandas Gandhi for the latter's fear of the working class. Singh was executed by the British in 1931, and became a popular folk hero after his death. On a leaflet which was distributed during the Assembly bombing, Singh wrote: "It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. Great empires crumbled while the ideas survived."