March 28

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 collect 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 Martinques, France.
   * 1930 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and
     Ankara.
   * 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers
     Madrid, ending the war.
   * 1942 - World War II: In occupied France, United Kingdom naval forces
     raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
   * 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 and almost 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 (+ 1670)
   * 1862 - Aristide Briand, politician, winner of the Nobel Prize in peace
     1926 (+ 1932)
   * 1868 - Maxim Gorky, author (+ 1936)
   * 1890 - Paul Whiteman, bandleader
   * 1897 - Sepp Herberger, football coach (+ 1977)
   * 1902 - Dame Flora Robson, actress (+ 1984)
   * 1904 - Werner Bahlsen, biscuit producer (+ 1985)
   * 1905 - Marlin Perkins, naturalist, television host (+ 1986)
   * 1921 - Dirk Bogarde, actor (+ 1999)
   * 1924 - Freddie Bartholomew, actor (+ 1992)
   * 1928 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, National security advisor
   * 1936 - Mario Vargas Llosa, author and politician
   * 1955 - Reba McEntire, country music singer, actress
   * 1970 - Vince Vaughn, actor

Deaths

   * 193 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (assassination)
   * 1794 - Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political
     scientist
   * 1814 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, inventor of the guillotine
   * 1868 - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military
     leader
   * 1870 - George Henry Thomas, American general
   * 1881 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer
   * 1914 - Edmund Muskie, United States politician (+ 1996)
   * 1941 - Virginia Woolf, writer
   * 1943 - Sergei Rachmaninov, composer and pianist
   * 1944 - Rick Barry, basketball star
   * 1948 - Dianne Wiest, actress
   * 1953 - Jim Thorpe, athlete
   * 1958 - W.C. Handy - Blues composer
   * 1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, US General of the Army, 34th President of
     the United States
   * 1979 - Emmett Kelly, clown
   * 1987 - Maria von Trapp, singer
   * 1994 - Eug�ne Ionesco, playwright
   * 2000 - Anthony Powell, British novelist

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