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March 28
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March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in Leap years). There are 278 days remaining.
Events
- 845 - Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
- 1776 - Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
- 1834 - The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the Second Bank of the United States.
- 1854 - Crimean War: United Kingdom and France declare war on Russia.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass - In New Mexico, Union forces succeed in stopping the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2002 - The exhibit "The Italians: Three Centuries of Italian Art" opens at the National Gallery of Australia.
Births
- 1609 - King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
- 1819 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, civil engineer (d. 1891)
- 1862 - Aristide Briand, politician, winner of the Nobel Prize in peace 1926 (d. 1932)
- 1868 - Maxim Gorky, author (d. 1936)
- 1890 - Paul Whiteman, bandleader (d. 1967)
- 1897 - Sepp Herberger, football coach (d. 1977)
- 1902 - Dame Flora Robson, actress (d. 1984)
- 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
- 1942 - Neil Kinnock, British statesman
- 1944 - Rick Barry, basketball player
- 1948 - Dianne Weist, actress (Hannah and Her Sisters, Law & Order)
- 1955 - Reba McEntire, country music singer, actress
- 1962 - Jure Franko, Slovenian alpine skier
- 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)
- 1814 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, inventor of the guillotine (b. 1738)
- 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)
- 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)
Holidays and observances
Recorded this date
March 27 - March 29 - February 28 - April 28 -- listing of all days
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