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28 March
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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.
Events
37 - Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate , entitled to him by the Senate .
193 - Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards , who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus .
364 - Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens 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 finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco .
1794 - Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau .
1795 - Partitions of Poland : The Duchy of Courland , a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia .
1802 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas , the second asteroid known to man.
1809 - Peninsular War : France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin .
1834 - The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in de-funding the Second Bank of the United States .
1854 - Crimean War : France and Britain declare war on Russia .
1860 - First Taranaki War : The Battle of Waireka begins.
1862 - American Civil War : Battle of Glorieta Pass - in New Mexico , Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26 .
1871 - The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris .
1910 - Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane , the Fabre Hydravion , after taking off from a water runway near Martigues , France .
1913 - Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty .
1920 - Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
1930 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara .
1939 - Spanish Civil War : Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid .
1940 - Construction begins of the exhibition center to host the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair .
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 heavy cruisers 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 .
1969 - Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece .
1969 - The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal's history with 10,000 trade unionists , leftist activists, CEGEP students, and even some McGill students at McGill's Roddick Gates. This led to the majority of the protesters getting arrested.
1978 - The 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 in the Three Mile Island accident , resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown .
1979 - British Prime Minister James Callaghan , is defeated by one vote in a Motion of No Confidence . This results in Parliament being dissolved to make way for a General Election .
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 18 deaths.
1994 - BBC Radio Five Live broadcasts for first time in United Kingdom
2000 - A Murray County, Georgia , school bus is hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die in this accident).
2003 - In a "friendly fire " incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard 's 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq , killing British soldier Matty Hull .
2005 - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia , and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1960 .
2006 - At least 1 million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.
Births
1472 - Fra Bartolommeo , Italian artist (d. 1517 )
1515 - Saint Teresa of Avila , Spanish Carmelite nun (d. 1582 )
1522 - Albert the Warlike , Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557 )
1569 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622 )
1592 - Comenius , Czech bishop (d. 1670 )
1599 - Witte Corneliszoon de With , Dutch naval officer (d. 1658 )
1609 - King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670 )
1613 - Xiaozhuangwen Grand Empress Dowager , Empress of Manchu (d. 1688 )
1652 - Samuel Sewall , American magistrate (d. 1730 )
1725 - Andrew Kippis , English clergyman and biographer (d. 1795 )
1750 - Francisco de Miranda , Venezuelan revolutionary (d. 1816 )
1760 - Thomas Clarkson , British abolitionist (d. 1846 )
1773 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand , French general (d. 1844 )
1793 - Henry Schoolcraft , American geographer and geologist (d. 1864 )
1795 - Georg Heinrich Pertz , German historian (d. 1876 )
1806 - Thomas Hare , English barrister (d. 1891 )
1815 - Arsène Houssaye , French novelist (d. 1896 )
1818 - Wade Hampton III , American soldier and politician (d. 1902 )
1819 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette , English civil engineer (d. 1891 )
1836 - Frederick Pabst , American brewer (d. 1904 )
1840 - Emin Pasha , Equatorian politician (d. 1892 )
1842 - William Harvey Carney , American Civil War officier (d. 1908 )
1849 - James Darmesteter , French author and antiquarian (d. 1894 )
1851 - Bernardino Machado , Portuguese politician (d. 1944 )
1862 - Aristide Briand , French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932 )
1866 - Jimmy Ross , Scottish footballer (d. 1902 )
1868 - Maxim Gorky , Russian author (d. 1936 )
1871 - Willem Mengelberg , Dutch conductor (d. 1951 )
1890 - Paul Whiteman , American bandleader (d. 1967 )
1892 - Corneille Heymans , Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968 )
1892 - Tom Maguire , Irish republican (d. 1993 )
1893 - Spyros Skouras , Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971 )
1895 - Christian Herter , 59th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1966 )
1895 - Spencer W. Kimball , American religious leader (d. 1985 )
1897 - Sepp Herberger , German football coach (d. 1977 )
1899 - Harold B. Lee , American religious leader (d. 1973 )
1899 - August Anheuser Busch, Jr. , brewing magnate and American baseball executive (d. 1989 )
1899 - Ernst Lindemann , German naval officer (d. 1941 )
1899 - Buck Shaw , American football coach (d. 1977 )
1900 - Edward Wagenknecht , American literary critic (d. 2004 )
1902 - Dame Flora Robson , English actress (d. 1984 )
1902 - Jaromír Vejvoda , Czech composer (d. 1988 )
1903 - Rudolf Serkin , Austrian pianist (d. 1991 )
1903 - Charles Starrett , American actor (d. 1986 )
1905 - Marlin Perkins , American naturalist and television host (d. 1986 )
1905 - Pandro S. Berman , American film producer (d. 1996 )
1907 - "Swifty" Lazar , American talent agent (d. 1993 )
1909 - Nelson Algren , American writer (d. 1981 )
1910 - Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr. , American Librarian (d. 2001 )
1910 - Jimmie Dodd , American actor (d. 1964 )
1910 - Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000 )
1911 - J. L. Austin , British philosopher of language (d. 1960 )
1912 - A. Bertram Chandler Australian author (d. 1984 )
1912 - Marina Raskova , Russian navigator (d. 1943 )
1914 - Edward Anhalt , American screenwriter (d. 2000 )
1914 - Bohumil Hrabal , Czech writer (d. 1997 )
1914 - Edmund Muskie , American politician (d. 1996 )
1914 - Kenneth Richard Norris , Australian entomologist (d. 2003 )
1915 - Jay Livingston , American composer and songwriter (d. 2001 )
1919 - Vic Raschi , American baseball player (d. 1988 )
1921 - Dirk Bogarde , English actor (d. 1999 )
1921 - Herschel Grynszpan , German political assassin (d. between 1943 and 1945 )
1922 - Neville Bonner , Australian politician (d. 1999 )
1922 - Felice Chiusano , Italian singer (d. 1990 )
1922 - Joey Maxim , American boxer (d. 2001 )
1924 - Freddie Bartholomew , Irish actor (d. 1992 )
1925 - Dorothy DeBorba , American child actress
1926 - Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba
1927 - Marianne Fredriksson , Swedish author (d. 2007 )
1928 - Zbigniew Brzezinski , U.S. National Security Advisor
1928 - Alexander Grothendieck , German mathematician
1929 - Paul England , Australian racing driver
1930 - Robert Ashley , American composer
1930 - Elizabeth Bainbridge , English opera singer
1930 - Jerome Isaac Friedman , American physicist, Nobel laureate
1933 - Tete Montoliu , Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997 )
1933 - Frank Murkowski , American politician
1935 - Michael Parkinson , English broadcaster
1936 - Mario Vargas Llosa , Peruvian author and politician
1937 - Liz Trotta , American journalist
1940 - Tony Barber , Australian television personality
1941 - Alf Clausen , America orchestra conductor
1941 - Jim Turner , American football player
1942 - Daniel Dennett , American philosopher
1942 - Neil Kinnock , British politician
1942 - Mike Newell , English film director
1942 - Samuel Ramey , American opera singer
1942 - Conrad Schumann , East German border guard (d. 1998 )
1942 - Jerry Sloan , American basketball player and head coach
1943 - Conchata Ferrell , American actress
1944 - Rick Barry , American basketball player
1944 - Ken Howard , American actor
1945 - Count Björn Hamilton , Swedish politician
1946 - Alejandro Toledo , President of Peru
1946 - Henry Paulson Jr. , Current U.S. Treasury Secretary
1946 - Wubbo Ockels , Dutch physicist and astronaut
1947 - John Landecker , American disk jockey
1948 - Dianne Wiest , American actress
1948 - Gerry House , American radio personality
1948 - John Evan , British musician (Jethro Tull )
1948 - Milan Williams , American musician The Commodores (d. 2006 )
1948 - Matthew Corbett , English retired actor
1951 - Karen Kain , Canadian ballerina
1951 - Matti Pellonpää , Finnish actor and musician (d. 1995 )
1952 - Tony Brise , racing driver (d. 1975 )
1953 - Melchior Ndadaye , Burundian politician (d. 1993 )
1954 - Morris Mason , American convicted rapist and murderer (d. 1985 )
1955 - John Alderdice , Northern Irish politician
1955 - Reba McEntire , American singer and actress
1956 - April Margera , Bam Margera 's mother
1958 - Curt Hennig , American professional wrestler (d. 2003 )
1958 - Edesio Alejandro , Cuban music composer.
1959 - Chris Myers , American sportscaster
1960 - Chris Barrie , British actor
1960 - José Maria Neves , Cape Verdeian politician
1960 - Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt , French author and dramatist
1961 - Orla Brady , Irish actress
1961 - Byron Scott , American basketball player
1962 - Jure Franko , Slovenian skier
1962 - Terry Szopinski , American pro-wrestler
1965 - Steve Bull , English footballer
1968 - Iris Chang , American author (d. 2004 )
1968 - Nasser Hussain , English cricketer
1968 - Jon Lee , British drummer (d. 2002 )
1968 - Tim Lovejoy , British television presenter
1968 - Max Perlich , American actor
1969 - Brett Ratner , American film director
1969 - Rodney Atkins , American country music singer-songwriter
1970 - Vince Vaughn , American actor
1970 - Michelle Gildernew , Irish republican politician
1971 - Mr. Cheeks , American rapper
1972 - Nick Frost , English comedian and actor
1972 - Keith Tkachuk , American ice hockey player
1973 - Eddie Fatu , Samoan professional wrestler
1973 - Matt Nathanson , American singer-songwriter
1974 - Mark King , English snooker player
1974 - Scott Mills , British radio disc jockey
1975 - Shanna Moakler , former beauty queen
1975 - Iván Helguera , Spanish footballer
1975 - Matt Reis , American soccer goalkeeper
1975 - Richard Kelly , American film director
1975 - Derek Hill , American racing driver
1976 - David Keuning , American guitar player (The Killers )
1977 - Erik Rasmussen , American ice hockey player
1977 - Lauren Weisberger , American novelist
1979 - Park Chae-rim , South Korean actress
1980 - Stiliani Pilatou , Greek long jumper
1980 - Luke Walton , American basketball player
1981 - Julia Stiles , American actress
1981 - Gareth David-Lloyd , Welsh Actor
1981 - Edwar Ramirez , American baseball player
1981 - Lindsay Frimodt , American model
1982 - Sonia Agarwal , Indian actress
1983 - Ryan Ashington , English footballer
1984 - Christopher Samba , French-born footballer
1984 - Nikki Sanderson , British actress and model
1984 - Yordanos Abay , Ethiopian footballer
1986 - J-Kwon , American rapper
1986 - Barbora Strýcová , Czech tennis player
1988 - Lacey Turner , British soap actress
1989 - Marek Suchý , Czech footballer
1989 - Lukas Jutkiewicz , English footballer
1989 - Mira Leung , Canadian figure skater
1989 - Afrikan Boy , a Nigerian rapper
1991 - Amy Bruckner , American actress
Deaths
193 - Pertinax , Roman Emperor (b. 126 )
1072 - Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
1239 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180 )
1285 - Pope Martin IV
1563 - Heinrich Glarean , Swiss music theorist (b. 1488 )
1566 - Sigismund von Herberstein , Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486 )
1677 - Václav Hollar , Czech-born actor (b. 1607 )
1687 - Constantijn Huygens , Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596 )
1794 - Marquis de Condorcet , French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743 )
1818 - Antonio Capuzzi , Italian composer (b. 1755 )
1850 - Gerard C. Brandon , American politician (b. 1788 )
1866 - Solomon Foot , American politician (b. 1802 )
1868 - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan , British military leader (b. 1797 )
1870 - George Henry Thomas , American general (b. 1816 )
1874 - Peter Andreas Hansen , Danish astronomer (b. 1795 )
1881 - Modest Mussorgsky , Russian composer (b. 1839 )
1910 - David Josiah Brewer , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837 )
1910 - Edouard Judas Colonne , French violinist (b. 1838 )
1928 - Nathan Stubblefield , American inventor
1929 - Lomer Gouin , Quebec politician (b. 1861 )
1939 - Francis Matthew John Baker , Australian politician (b. 1903 )
1941 - Virginia Woolf , English feminist writer (b. 1882 )
1941 - Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara , Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877)
1942 - Miguel Hernández , Spanish poet, death in prison (b. 1910 )
1943 - Sergei Rachmaninoff , Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873 )
1944 - Stephen Leacock , Canadian humorist (b. 1869 )
1946 - Chick Fullis , baseball player (b. 1904 )
1947 - Karol Świerczewski , Polish general (b. 1897 )
1949 - Grigoraş Dinicu , Romanian composer and violinist (b. 1889 )
1953 - Jim Thorpe , American athlete (b. 1887 )
1958 - W.C. Handy , American composer (b. 1873 )
1962 - Hugo Wast , Argentine writer (b. 1883 )
1965 - Jack Hoxie , American actor and rodeo performer (b. 1885 )
1965 - Clemence Dane , British novelist and playwright (b. 1888 )
1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower , 34th President of the United States (b. 1890 )
1969 - Aryeh Levin , Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1974 - Dorothy Fields , American librettist and lyricist (b. 1905 )
1976 - Arthur Crudup , American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1905 )
1976 - Richard Arlen , American actor (b. 1898 )
1978 - Dino Ciani , Italian pianist (d. 1941 )
1979 - Emmett Kelly , American clown (b. 1898 )
1980 - Dick Haymes , Argentine-born singer and actor (b. 1918 )
1982 - William Giauque , Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895 )
1984 - Carmen Dragon , American conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1914 )
1985 - Marc Chagall , Russian-born painter (b. 1887 )
1986 - Virginia Gilmore . American actress (b. 1919 )
1987 - Maria von Trapp , Austrian-born singer (b. 1905 )
1987 - Patrick Troughton , British actor (b. 1920 )
1993 - Scott Cunningham , Occult author (b. 1956 )
1994 - Eugène Ionesco , Romanian-born French playwright (b. 1909 )
1995 - Hugh O'Connor , American actor (b. 1962 )
1999 - Freaky Tah , American rapper (Lost Boyz ) (b. 1971 )
2000 - Anthony Powell , British novelist (b. 1905 )
2001 - Moe Koffman , Canadian musician (b. 1928 )
2003 - Rusty Draper , American country and pop singer (b. 1923 )
2004 - Art James , American game show host (b. 1929 )
2004 - Peter Ustinov , British actor (b. 1921 )
2005 - Dame Moura Lympany , British pianist (b. 1916 )
2006 - Caspar Weinberger , United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917 )
2006 - Charles Schepens , American ophthalmologist (b. 1912 )
2006 - Kevin Pro Hart , Australian artist (b. 1928 )
2006 - Proinsias Ó Maonaigh , Irish musician (b. 1922 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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