March 28
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March 28 is the 87th day of the year (88th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 278 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events [change]
- 37 - Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
- 193 – Roman Emperor Pertinax was assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
- 364 - Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens as co-Emperor.
- 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 sails into San Francisco Bay and claims the nearby land for Spain.
- 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.
- 1871 - The Paris Commune is officially created in Paris.
- 1889 - The Yngsjo murder occurs in Sweden, as Anna Mansdotter and her son are arrested for the crime.
- 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.
- 1915 - British passenger steamer Falaba is sunk by a German U-boat off Wales, killing 104 people, including the first American to die as a direct result of World War I.
- 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.
- 1951 - First Indochina War: Battle of Mao Khe.
- 1959 - The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the Government of Tibet.
- 1964 – The first British offshore pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, is established.
- 1965 - An earthquake causes a dam to break near the town of El Cobre, Chile, which is flooded, killing over 200 people.
- 1969 - Greek poet Giorgos Seferis makes his famous statement on the BBC World Service against the ruling junta in Greece.
- 1970 - An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 hits Gediz, Turkey, killing 1,086 people.
- 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.
- 1979 - The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against Prime Minister James Callaghan's Labour Party government. A new election on May 3 results in Margaret Thatcher being elected Prime Minister.
- 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.
- 1997 - A rock fall in Afghanistan kills 380 people.
- 1999 - Kosovo War: Serbian paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica Massacre.
- 1999 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits southwestern China and northern India, killing 100 people.
- 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. It kills around 1,300 people, mainly on the island of Nias.
- 2006 – Strikes in France, in protest at the government proposition First Employment Contract
Births [change]
- 1472 – Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)
- 1496 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (d. 1533)
- 1515 – Teresa of Avila, Spanish saint (d. 1582)
- 1522 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1577)
- 1569 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622)
- 1592 – John Amos Comenius, Bohemian philosopher and theologian (d. 1670)
- 1613 – Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang of the Qing Dynasty of China (d. 1688)
- 1743 - Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, major figure in the Russian Enlightenment (d. 1810)
- 1749 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician, physicist and astronomer (d. 1827)
- 1750 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (d. 1816)
- 1760 - Thomas Clarkson, British abolitionist (d. 1846)
- 1773 - Henri Gatien Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)
- 1793 - Henry Schoolcraft, American explorer and ethnologist (d. 1864)
- 1811 - Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, Bohemian-born American bishop and Roman Catholic saint (d. 1860)
- 1815 - Arsene Houssaye, French novelist (d. 1896)
- 1818 - Wade Hampton III, Governor of South Carolina (d. 1902)
- 1832 - Henry D. Washburn, American politician, general and explorer (d. 1871)
- 1851 – Bernardino Machado, President and Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1944)
- 1862 – Aristide Briand, Prime Minister of France (d. 1932)
- 1868 – Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
- 1878 - Herbert H. Lehman, Governor of New York (d. 1963)
- 1892 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian doctor, won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (d. 1968)
- 1895 - Christian Herter, Governor of Massachusetts and United States Secretary of State (d. 1966)
- 1897 – Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977)
- 1899 – August Anheuser Busch, Jr., American brewer (d. 1989)
- 1899 - Harold B. Lee, American religious figure (d. 1973)
- 1903 – Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
- 1910 – Ingrid of Sweden, Queen Consort of Denmark (d. 2000)
- 1911 - J. L. Austin, British philosopher (d. 1960)
- 1912 – Marina Raskova, Soviet pilot (d. 1943)
- 1913 – Kazuo Taoka, Japanese crime boss (d. 1981)
- 1913 – Toko Shinoda, Japanese artist
- 1914 – Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996)
- 1921 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1921 - Herschel Grynszpan, German-Jewish refugee and assassin (d. 1942)
- 1922 - Neville Bonner, Australian politician (d. 1999)
- 1922 – Theo Albrecht, German businessman (Aldi Nord) (d. 2010)
- 1925 - Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Soviet-Russian actor (d. 1994)
- 1927 - Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (d. 2007)
- 1928 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American political scientist
- 1928 – Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician
- 1930 – Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist
- 1930 - Robert Ashley, American composer
- 1933 – Frank Murkowski, American politician, former Governor of Alaska
- 1933 - Juan Sandoval Iniguez, Archbishop of Guadalajara, Mexico
- 1935 – Michael Parkinson, British broadcaster
- 1936 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer and politician
- 1940 - Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2013)
- 1941 – Alf Clausen, American orchestra conductor
- 1942 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
- 1942 – Neil Kinnock, British politician, former leader of the Labour Party
- 1942 – Mike Newell, British director
- 1942 - Conrad Schumann, East German borderguard (d. 1998)
- 1942 - Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and coach
- 1946 – Alejandro Toledo, former President of Peru
- 1946 - Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut
- 1946 - Henry Paulson, American politician
- 1948 – Dianne Wiest, American actress
- 1948 – John Evan, British musician (Jethro Tull)
- 1953 – Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian politician (d. 1993)
- 1955 – Rena McEntire, American singer and actress
- 1956 - April Margera, American television personality
- 1959 – Laura Chinchilla, President of Costa Rica
- 1960 – Jose Maria Neves, Prime Minister of Cape Verde
- 1961 – Orla Brady, Irish actress
- 1961 - Byron Scott, American basketball player and coach
- 1962 - Jure Franko, Slovenian skier
- 1963 – Nina Ananiashvili, Georgian prima ballerina
- 1966 - Cheryl James, American rapper and actress
- 1967 - John Ziegler, American radio host
- 1968 – Nasser Hussain, English cricketer
- 1968 - Tim Lovejoy, English television presenter
- 1970 – Vince Vaughn, American actor
- 1971 – Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi, British solicitor and politician
- 1972 - Nick Frost, British actor
- 1973 – Eddie Fatu, Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2009)
- 1973 – Scott Mills, British radio presenter
- 1975 - Kate Gosselin, American television personality
- 1975 - Ivan Helguera, Spanish footballer
- 1975 - Richard Kelly, American director and screenwriter
- 1976 – Dave Keuning, American guitarist (The Killers)
- 1977 – Erik Rasmussen, American ice hockey player
- 1979 - Crystal Cox, American athlete
- 1981 – Julia Stiles, American actress
- 1982 - Luis Tejada, Panamanian footballer
- 1984 – Christopher Samba, Congolese footballer
- 1984 - Nikki Sanderson, British actress and model
- 1985 – Stanislas Wawrinka, Swiss tennis player
- 1986 – Lady Gaga, American singer
- 1988 - Lacey Turner, British actress
- 1989 – David Goodwillie, Scottish footballer
- 1990 - Luca Marrone, Italian footballer
- 1991 - Marie-Philip Poulin, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1992 - Sergi Gomez, Spanish footballer
Deaths [change]
- 193 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (b. 126)
- 1072 - Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
- 1239 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
- 1241 – King Valdemar II of Denmark (b. 1170)
- 1552 - Guru Angad Dev, Indian Sikh Guru (b. 1504)
- 1687 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
- 1794 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
- 1850 - Gerard Brandon, Governor of Mississippi (b. 1788)
- 1866 - Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
- 1881 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)
- 1941 – Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)
- 1942 – Miguel Hernandez, Spanish poet (b. 1910)
- 1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873)
- 1953 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
- 1958 – W. C. Handy, American blues musician and composer (b. 1873)
- 1965 - Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
- 1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
- 1974 – Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1905)
- 1977 – Eric Shipton, British explorer and mountain climber (b. 1907)
- 1982 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist (b. 1895)
- 1985 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
- 1987 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer (b. 1905)
- 1987 – Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)
- 1994 – Eugene Ionescu, Romanian-born playwright (b. 1909)
- 1996 - Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician (b. 1914)
- 2000 – Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
- 2004 – Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)
- 2006 – Caspar Weinberger, American politician (b. 1917)
- 2009 – Janet Jagan, American-born President of Guyana (b. 1920)
- 2010 – Herb Ellis, American musician (b. 1921)
- 2010 – June Havoc, Canadian-American actress (b. 1912)
- 2012 – Alexander Arutunian, Armenian composer (b. 1920)
- 2012 - Earl Scruggs, American musician (b. 1924)
- 2013 - Richard Griffiths, British actor (b. 1947)
Observances [change]
- Serfs Emancipation Day (Tibet)
- Teachers' Day (Czech Republic of Slovakia)
