March 28

March 28 is the 87thth day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in Leap years). There are 278 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 Recorded this date

Events

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.
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 Martigues, France.
1920 - Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Sr and Mary Pickford get married.
1930 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
1939 - Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid, ending the war.
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, United Kingdom 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.
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 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 (d. 1670)
1819 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, civil engineer (d. 1891)
1862 - Aristide Briand, politician, winner of the Nobel Prize in peace 1926 (d. 1932)
1868 - Maxim Gorky, author (d. 1936)
1890 - Paul Whiteman, bandleader (d. 1967)
1897 - Sepp Herberger, football coach (d. 1977)
1902 - Dame Flora Robson, actress (d. 1984)
1904 - Werner Bahlsen, biscuit producer (d. 1985)
1905 - Marlin Perkins, naturalist, television host (d. 1986)
1914 - Edmund Muskie, United States politician (d. 1996)
1921 - Dirk Bogarde, actor (d. 1999)
1924 - Freddie Bartholomew, actor (d. 1992)
1928 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor
1936 - Mario Vargas Llosa, author and politician
1942 - Neil Kinnock, British statesman
1944 - Rick Barry, basketball player
1948 - Dianne Weist, actress (Hannah and Her Sisters, Law & Order;)
1955 - Reba McEntire, country music singer, actress
1962 - Jure Franko, Slovenian alpine skier
1970 - Vince Vaughn, actor
1974 - Mark King, English snooker player
1981 - Julia Stiles, actress

Deaths

193 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (assassination) (b. 126)
1285 - Pope Martin IV (b. c. 1210)
1794 - Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (b. 1743)
1814 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, inventor of the guillotine (b. 1738)
1868 - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797)
1870 - George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
1881 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)
1941 - Virginia Woolf, writer (b. 1882)
1943 - Sergei Rachmaninov, composer and pianist (b. 1873)
1953 - Jim Thorpe, athlete (b. 1887)
1958 - W.C. Handy - Blues composer (b. 1873)
1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S General of the Army, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
1979 - Emmett Kelly, clown (b. 1898)
1987 - Maria von Trapp, singer
1994 - Eugène Ionesco, playwright (b. 1912)
2000 - Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)

Holidays and observances

Recorded this date

1911 "Roamin' In The Gloamin'"(w.m. Harry Lauder) Harry Lauder
1913 "Mother O' Mine"(w. Rudyard Kipling m. Frank E. Tours) John McCormack
1922 "Some Sunny Day"(w.m. Irving Berlin) Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra
1922 "Do It Again"(w. B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin) Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra
1924 "How Come You Do Me Like You Do?" (w.m. Gene Austin & Roy Bergere) Marion Harris
1924 "It Had To Be You"(w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones) Marion Harris
1928 "Dinah"(w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Akst) Joe Venuti's Blue Four
1929 "Kansas City Kitty"(w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson) Billy Murray and his Merry Melody Men
1929 "She's Got Great Ideas!"(w.m. George Bennett, Sam Carlton & Charles Tobias) Billy Murray and his Merry Melody Men
1930 "Exactly Like You"(w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh) Seger Ellis
1932 "One Hour With You"(w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting) Donald Novis Jimmie Grier & his Cocoanut Grove Orchestra
1934 "Little Dutch Mill"(w. Ralph Freed m. Harry Barris) Arthur Tracy
1934 "Let's Fall In Love"(w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen) Arthur Tracy
1934 "Butterfingers"(w.m. Irving Berlin) Connie Boswell Dorsey Brothers & their Orchestra
1936 "Yours Truly Is Truly Yours"(w.m. J. Fred Coots, Benny Davis & Ted Fio Rito) Ronnie Hilton Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
1936 "Fancy Meeting You"(w. E. Y. Harburg m. Harold Arlen) Ronnie Hill Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
1938 "Jeep's Blues"(m. Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges) Johnny Hodges
1939 "The Same Old Story"(Erich Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin) Dorothy Alt Jay Wilbur & his Band
1939 "Three Little Fishes"(w.m. Saxie Dowell) Saxie Dowell & The Smoothies Hal Kemp & his Orchestra
1940 "Imagination"(w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen) Dinah Shore
1946 "Ridin' On The Gravy Train"(w. Steve Graham & Sunny Skylar m. Ben Homer) Jo Stafford p. Nat King Cole
1946 "I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time"(w. Neville Fleason m. Albert Von Tilzer) Jo Stafford p. Nat King Cole
1946 "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?"(w.m. Charles Warfield & Clarence Williams) Jo Stafford p. Nat King Cole
1946 "Cindy"(Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford, Paul Weston) Jo Stafford p. Nat King Cole
1947 "After Graduation Day"(w. Sylvia Dee m. Sidney Lippman) Buddy Clark O/Eddie Duchin
1947 "Je Vous Aime"(w.m. Sam Coslow) Buddy Clark O/Eddie Duchin
1947 "All Of Me"(w.m. Seymour Simons & Gerald Marks) Frankie Laine O/Harry Keller
1947 "Mam'selle"(w. Mack Gordon m. Edmund Goulding) Frankie Laine O/Carl Fischer
1947 "The Anniversary Song"(w.m. Al Jolson & Saul Chaplin) Bing Crosby w. Ken Darby Singers Victor Young
1947 "O Fir Tree Dark"(trad) Bing Crosby & Ken Darby Singers O/Victor Young
1947 "Poppa, Don't Preach To Me"(w.m. Frank Loesser) Dinah Shore O/Sonny Burke
1950 "Choo'n Gum"(w. Mann Curtis m. Vic Mizzy) Dean Martin
1950 "I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine"(w.m. Mack David) Dean Martin
1950 "Roses"(w.m. Tim Spencer & Glenn Spencer) Kaydets Swing And Sway With Sammy Kaye
1950 "I'm Movin' On"(w.m. Hank Snow) Hank Snow
1953 "Say You're Mine Again"(w.m. Charles Nathan & Dave Heisler) Perry Como w. Ramblers O/Hugo Winterhalter
1953 "My One And Only Heart"(w. Al Stillman m. Robert Allen) Perry Como O/Hugo Winterhalter
1958 "Summertime Blues"(w.m. Eddie Cochran & Jerry Capehart) Eddie Cochran
1962 "Ebb Tide"(w. Carl Sigman m. Robert Maxwell) Lenny Welch O/Archie Bleyer
1966 "Green Grass"(w.m. Roger Cook & Roger Greenaway) Gary Lewis & Playboys
1967 "Brown Eyed Girl"(w.m. Van Morrison) Van Morrison
1968 "Whiskey On A Sunday" Irish Rovers
1972 "Burning Love"(w.m. Dennis Linde) Elvis Presley

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