Notable Historical Events on March 28th
March 28th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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. |
1535 |
Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed |
1556 |
Karel V's son Philip II crowned king of Spain |
1556 |
Origin of Fasli Era (India) |
1738 |
Parliament sends an address to the king requesting that he demand redress from Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear) |
1774 |
Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts |
1776 |
Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco. |
1794 |
Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August) |
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. |
1796 |
Bethel African Methodist Church of Phila is 1st US-African church |
1797 |
Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine |
1799 |
NY State abolished slavery |
1802 |
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man. |
1804 |
Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804 |
1809 |
Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin. |
1834 |
Senate censure President Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US |
1844 |
Jose Zorilla's "Don Juan Tenorio" premieres in Madrid |
1845 |
Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US |
1854 |
Britain & France declare war on Russia (Crimean War) |
1859 |
1st performance of John Brahms' 1st Serenade for orchestra |
1860 |
First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins (New Zealand). |
1862 |
Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia |
1866 |
1st ambulance goes into service |
1871 |
SF Art Association holds open reception at 430 Pine |
1881 |
"Greatest Show On Earth" was formed by PT Barnum & James A Bailey |
1885 |
US Salvation Army officially organized |
1891 |
1st world weightlifting championship held |
1896 |
The opera "Andrea Chenier" is produced (Milan) |
1902 |
27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville, Tennessee (state record) |
1904 |
Japanese troops advance in Korea, defeat the Russians at Chengiu, and capture the town |
1905 |
Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used |
1910 |
1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre) |
1913 |
Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
1917 |
Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities |
1917 |
Puccini's "La Rondine" premieres in Monte Carlo |
1920 |
Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia |
1920 |
Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states. |
1922 |
1st microfilm device introduced |
1922 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto St Pats (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2 |
1924 |
WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions |
1927 |
Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St NYC |
1929 |
Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador |
1930 |
1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston) |
1930 |
Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara |
1933 |
German Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler |
1935 |
Robert Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket |
1939 |
Dutch hunter shoots down British bombers |
1939 |
Philip Barry's "Philadelphia Story" premieres in NYC |
1939 |
Renaissance Big 5 win 1st pro basketball championship |
1939 |
Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco |
1940 |
Construction begins of the exhibition center to host the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair. |
1941 |
Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy |
1942 |
-29] 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck |
1942 |
4th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38 |
1942 |
British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire |
1944 |
6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40 |
1944 |
Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle & begins writing Pippi Longstocking |
1945 |
Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London |
1946 |
Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power. |
1948 |
2nd Tony Awards: Mister Roberts win |
1950 |
12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: CCNY beats Bradley 71-68 NYC college becomes 1st to win NCAA & Natl Inv Basketball in same year |
1952 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
1952 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
1953 |
"New Faces (of 1952)" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 365 perfs |
1953 |
"Stock exchanges open, dikes closed" raises 5,200,000 guilders |
1953 |
7th Tony Awards: Crucible & Wonderful Town win |
1953 |
KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
1953 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins |
1954 |
8th Tony Awards: Teahouse of the August Moon & Kismet win |
1954 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open |
1954 |
WKAQ TV channel 2 in San Juan, PR (TM) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
NZ cricket all out for 26 v England at Eden Park |
1957 |
1st National Curling Championship held |
1959 |
11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government & installs Panchen Lama |
1960 |
Pope John appoints the first Japanese, African & Filipino cardinals |
1960 |
Scotch whisky factory explodes burying 20 fire fighters (Glasgow, Scotland) |
1962 |
Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives WI cricket victory over India |
1962 |
Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees |
1963 |
AFL's NY Titan's become the NY Jets |
1964 |
1st pirate radio station near England (Radio Caroline) |
1964 |
9.2 earthquake shakes Prince William Sound, Alaska |
1965 |
Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA All State Ladies' Golf Invitational |
1967 |
"Sherry!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 65 performances |
1967 |
UN Sect General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam |
1969 |
Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal |
1969 |
Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece. |
1970 |
1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey) |
1971 |
25th Tony Awards: Sleuth & Company win |
1972 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1972 |
Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game |
1974 |
Rock group Raspberries breakup |
1975 |
Wash Caps win 1st game on road after 37 straight road loses also |
1977 |
39th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Marquette beats NC 67-59 |
1977 |
49th Academy Awards - "Rocky", Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win |
1977 |
Morarji Desai forms government in India |
1979 |
British government of Callaghan falls |
1979 |
Lazarus & Vosburgh's "Day in Hollywood & night in Ukraine" premieres |
1979 |
Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pa (no deaths) |
1981 |
Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 m 40.18 sec) |
1981 |
France performs nuclear test |
1981 |
Gabi Schonbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:21.70) |
1981 |
Viv Richards scores century in the 1st Test at his home Antigua |
1981 |
Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (36.91 secs) |
1982 |
12th Easter Seal Telethon raises $19,500,000 |
1982 |
1st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: LA Tech beats Cheney 76-62 |
1982 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
1982 |
JN Duartes' Christian Democrats win elections in El Salvador |
1985 |
International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley |
1985 |
Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" premieres in NYC |
1985 |
STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad |
1986 |
Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India |
1986 |
John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
1987 |
Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway |
1989 |
New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a NY court |
1990 |
Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient |
1990 |
Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 pts in a game |
1990 |
President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal |
1991 |
Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son |
1992 |
6th American Comedy Award: Cathy Ladman, Judy Watkins, Billy Crystal |
1992 |
Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3:35:31) |
1992 |
PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel |
1993 |
13th Golden Raspberry Awards: Shining Through wins |
1993 |
22nd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Helen Alfredsson |
1993 |
Conservatives win French parliamentary election |
1993 |
Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031) |
1994 |
Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed |
1994 |
Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election |
1994 |
BBC Radio Five Live broadcasts for first time in United Kingdom |
1995 |
Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovette split-up |
1995 |
Queensland beat S Aust to win 1st ever cricket Sheffield Shield |
1995 |
World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge |
1996 |
"Seven Guitars" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC |
1996 |
Katie Beam, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 35th Miss Teenage America |
1997 |
"City" soap opera's final episode on ABC-TV |
1999 |
18th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at San Jose |
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. |
2013 |
143 rebels and 20 government troop are killed in conflict in Pibor County, Sudan |
2013 |
15 students are killed and 7 are injured after a mortar strikes Damascus University |
2013 |
Pope Francis becomes the first Pope to wash the feet of women in the Maundy Thursday service |
2013 |
Banks in Cyprus re-open after having been closed for two weeks; the government agrees a 10 billion euro bailout deal with the EU and IMF |
2014 |
Russia increases the price of gas to the Ukraine by 80% |
2016 |
Iran congratulates Syria's Assad on regaining Palmyra |
2016 |
Taliban faction says carried out suicide bomb attack on Pakistan park, says Christians were target |
2016 |
Pakistan explosion leaves many dead at Lahore park |
2017 |
NFL owners approve Raiders' move to Las Vegas from Oakland |
2018 |
26 countries pledge to kick out Russian diplomats over poisoning of ex-spy |
2018 |
North Korea's Kim Jong Un visits China in 1st foreign trip as leader |
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