28 March
March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in Leap years). There are 278 days remaining.
Events
Up to 19th Century
19th Century
20th Century
- 1910 - Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after
taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
- 1920 - Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and Mary Pickford get
married.
- 1930 - Constantinople and
Angora change their names to Istanbul and
Ankara.
- 1939 - Spanish Civil
War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid, ending the war.
- 1941 - World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan - In the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne
Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian battleships and two destroyers.
- 1942 - World War II: In occupied France,
United Kingdom naval forces raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
- 1946 - Cold War: The United States State Department releases the
Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
- 1947 - The last episode of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio.
- 1964 - The first pirate radio
station, Radio Caroline, is established.
- 1978 - US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
- 1979 - In Pennsylvania, a pump in
the reactor cooling system fails at Three Mile Island, resulting
in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear
meltdown.
- 1990 - President George H.
W. Bush presents Jesse Owens with the Congressional Gold Medal.
- 1994 - In South Africa, Zulus and African
National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg resulting
in eighteen deaths.
21st Century
Births
Up to 19th Century
19th Century
20th Century
- 1902 - Dame Flora Robson, actress
(d. 1984)
- 1903 - Rudolf Serkin, Austrian
pianist (d. 1991)
- 1904 - Werner Bahlsen, biscuit producer (d. 1985)
- 1905 - Marlin Perkins,
naturalist, television host (d. 1986)
- 1914 - Edmund Muskie, United States politician (d. 1996)
- 1921 - Dirk Bogarde, actor (d.
1999)
- 1924 - Freddie
Bartholomew, actor (d. 1992)
- 1928 - Zbigniew
Brzezinski, National
Security Advisor
- 1936 - Mario Vargas
Llosa, author and politician
- 1941 - Jim Turner, American football
player
- 1942 - Neil Kinnock, British
statesman
- 1944 - Rick Barry, basketball player
- 1948 - Dianne Weist, actress
- 1955 - Reba McEntire, country music singer, actress
- 1962 - Jure Franko, Slovenian
alpine skier
- 1968 - Iris Chang, author (d.
2004)
- 1970 - Vince Vaughn, actor
- 1974 - Mark King, English snooker player
- 1977 - Devon,
pornographic film actress
- 1981 - Julia Stiles, actress
Deaths
- 193 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (assassination) (b. 126)
- 1285 - Pope Martin IV (b. c.
1210)
- 1794 - Marquis de
Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (b. 1743)
- 1868 - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797)
- 1870 - George Henry
Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
- 1881 - Modest
Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b.
1839)
- 1910 - David Josiah
Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court
justice (b. 1837)
- 1941 - Virginia Woolf, writer
(b. 1882)
- 1943 - Sergei
Rachmaninoff, composer and pianist
(b. 1873)
- 1953 - Jim Thorpe, athlete (b.
1887)
- 1958 - W.C. Handy - Blues composer (b. 1873)
- 1969 - Dwight D.
Eisenhower, U.S. General of
the Army, 34th President of the United
States (b. 1890)
- 1979 - Emmett Kelly, clown (b. 1898)
- 1987 - Maria von Trapp,
singer
- 1994 - Eugène Ionesco,
playwright (b. 1912)
- 2000 - Anthony Powell,
British novelist (b.
1905)
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