March 28
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March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (88th in leap years).
[change] Events
- 193 - Roman Emperor Pertinax was assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
- 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.
- 1795 - Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceased to exist and became part of Imperial Russia.
- 1802 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovered 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
- 1809 - Battle of Medelin
- 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.
- 1860 - First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka broke out.
- 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.
- 1913 - Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1920 - Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford marry.
- 1930 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
- 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid
- 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, British 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 posthumously awards Jesse Owens 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.
- 2005 - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1965.
[change] Births
- 1868 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
- 1946 - Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru
[change] Deaths
- 1881 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)
- 1941 - Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)
- 1943 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873)
- 1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
- 1987 - Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)
- 2000 - Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
