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28 Mar 1535
Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed in Friesland
28 Mar 1738
Parliament sends an address to the king requesting that he demand redress from Spain (War of Jenkins Ear)
28 Mar 1774
Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts
28 Mar 1776
Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco
28 Mar 1794
Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
28 Mar 1794
Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau
28 Mar 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.
28 Mar 1796
Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is 1st US-African church
28 Mar 1797
Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine
28 Mar 1802
Wilhelm Olbers discovers 2 Pallas the second asteroid known to man
28 Mar 1804
Ohio passes law restricting movement of Blacks
28 Mar 1809
Peninsular War France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin
28 Mar 1834
Senate censure President Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
28 Mar 1844
Jose Zorillas Don Juan Tenorio premieres in Madrid
28 Mar 1854
Britain and France declare war on Russia during the Crimean War
28 Mar 1859
1st performance of Johannes Brahms 1st Serenade for orchestra
28 Mar 1860
First Taranaki War The Battle of Waireka begins (New Zealand).
28 Mar 1871
San Francisco Art Association holds open reception at 430 Pine
28 Mar 1879
41st Grand National Garry Moore aboard 51 chance The Liberator wins by 2 lengths from Jackal
28 Mar 1881
Greatest Show On Earth was formed by PT Barnum & James A Bailey
28 Mar 1884
46th Grand National Ted Wilson aboard 101 shot Voluptuary wins by 4 lengths from Frigate
28 Mar 1890
52nd Grand National Arthur Nightingall wins aboard 41 favourite Ilex
28 Mar 1891
1st world weightlifting championship won by Edward Lawrence in London England
28 Mar 1896
Umberto Giordanos opera Andrea Chenier premieres at La Scala Milan with Giuseppe Borgatti singing the title role
28 Mar 1902
27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville Tennessee (state record)
28 Mar 1904
Japanese troops advance in Korea defeat the Russians at Chengiu and capture the town
28 Mar 1905
Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname never used
28 Mar 1910
1st seaplane takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre)
28 Mar 1913
Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
28 Mar 1917
Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities
28 Mar 1917
Puccinis La Rondine premieres in Monte Carlo
28 Mar 1919
78th Grand National Ernie Piggott wins aboard Poethlyn shortest price winner in history at 11-4
28 Mar 1920
Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states
28 Mar 1920
Anton Denkins White Russian troops defeated by Bolsheviks and Soviets at Novorossijsk on the Black Sea (The British aid Denkin in his escape)
28 Mar 1922
Stanley Cup Final Mutual Street Arena Toronto ON Toronto St Patricks (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) 5-1 for a 3-2 series win
28 Mar 1924
WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
28 Mar 1924
83rd Grand National Bob Trudgill wins aboard 251 shot Master Robert last GN from a general riding start now-familiar tape introduced the following year.
28 Mar 1929
Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador
28 Mar 1930
1st performance of Walter Pistons Suite for orchestra (Boston)
28 Mar 1930
Turkish cities Constantinople & Angora change their names to Istanbul & Ankara
28 Mar 1933
1st SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Kentucky beats Mississippi State 46-27
28 Mar 1939
Philip Barrys Philadelphia Story premieres in NYC
28 Mar 1939
Renaissance Big 5 win 1st pro basketball championship
28 Mar 1940
Construction begins of the exhibition center to host the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair.
28 Mar 1941
Sea battle at Cape Matapan British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy
28 Mar 1942
4th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38
28 Mar 1942
British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
28 Mar 1944
6th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40
28 Mar 1944
Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle & begins writing Pippi Longstocking
28 Mar 1946
Cold War The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
28 Mar 1950
12th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship CCNY beats Bradley 71-68 City College of NY first to win NCAA & National Invitational Basketball in same year
28 Mar 1953
New Faces (of 1952) closes at Royale Theater NYC after 365 performances
28 Mar 1953
Stock exchanges open dikes closed raises 5200000 guilders
28 Mar 1953
7th Tony Awards Crucible & Wonderful Town win
28 Mar 1953
KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
28 Mar 1953
107th Grand National Bryan Marshall wins aboard Irish 8-year old Early Mist first of 3 consecutive GN victories for trainer Vincent OBrien
28 Mar 1954
8th Tony Awards Teahouse of the August Moon & Kismet win
28 Mar 1954
WKAQ TV channel 2 in San Juan PR (TM) begins broadcasting
28 Mar 1955
NZ cricket all out for 26 v England at Eden Park
28 Mar 1959
11 days after Tibet uprising China dissolves Tibets government & installs Panchen Lama
28 Mar 1960
Pope John appoints the first Japanese African & Filipino cardinals
28 Mar 1960
Scotch whisky factory explodes burying 20 fire fighters in Glasgow Scotland
28 Mar 1962
Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives WI cricket victory over India
28 Mar 1962
Military coup in Syria President Nazim al-Kudsi flees
28 Mar 1964
1st pirate radio station near England (Radio Caroline)
28 Mar 1967
Sherry opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 65 performances
28 Mar 1967
UN Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam
28 Mar 1969
Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece
28 Mar 1970
1086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages in Gediz Turkey
28 Mar 1975
Wash Caps win 1st game on road after 37 straight road loses also
28 Mar 1976
AIAW Womens Basketball Tournament Delta States beat Immaculata 69-64 at Pennsylvania State University
28 Mar 1977
39th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Marquette beats North Carolina 67-59
28 Mar 1978
Daryl Gates becomes the 49th Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
28 Mar 1979
Lazarus & Vosburghs Day in Hollywood & night in Ukraine premieres
28 Mar 1979
Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island Middletown Pennsylvania (no deaths)
28 Mar 1981
Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 m 40.18 sec)
28 Mar 1981
Gabi Schonbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (421.70)
28 Mar 1981
Viv Richards scores century in the 1st Test at his home Antigua
28 Mar 1981
Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (36.91 secs)
28 Mar 1982
1st NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Louisiana Tech beats Cheney 76-62
28 Mar 1982
JN Duartes Christian Democrats win elections in El Salvador
28 Mar 1982
Last AIAW Womens Basketball Championship Rutgers beat Texas 83-77 in Philadelphia
28 Mar 1983
PGA Tournament Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass Hal Sutton comes from 4 strokes back with a final round 69 to win a rain-affected Monday finish by 1 stroke ahead of Bob Eastwood
28 Mar 1985
International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley
28 Mar 1986
Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India
28 Mar 1986
John N McMahon ends term as deputy director of CIA
28 Mar 1989
New Zealand wins Americas Cup over Stars & Stripes in a NY court
28 Mar 1990
Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient
28 Mar 1992
6th American Comedy Award Cathy Ladman Judy Watkins Billy Crystal
28 Mar 1992
Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (33531)
28 Mar 1993
13th Golden Raspberry Awards Shining Through wins
28 Mar 1993
Conservatives win French parliamentary election
28 Mar 1993
PGA Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass Nick Price of Zimbabwe sets a scoring record of 270 (18) to finish 5 strokes ahead of Germanys Bernhard Langer
28 Mar 1993
Nabisco Dinah Shore Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Helen Alfredsson of Sweden wins her only major title 2 strokes ahead of 3 runners-up first non-American to win the event as a major
28 Mar 1994
Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg over 53 killed
28 Mar 1994
Italys right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election
28 Mar 1994
BBC Radio Five Live broadcasts for first time in United Kingdom
28 Mar 1995
Queensland beat S Aust to win 1st ever cricket Sheffield Shield
28 Mar 1995
Worlds largest bank-Japans Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge
28 Mar 1996
Seven Guitars opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
28 Mar 1999
18th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Purdue beats Duke 62-45
28 Mar 1999
PGA Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass David Duval wins by 2 strokes from Scott Gump Duvals father Bob wins Senior Tours Emerald Coast Classic on the same day
28 Mar 1999
Nabisco Championship Womens Golf Mission Hills CC 1992 champion Dottie Pepper wins the last of her 2 major titles 6 strokes ahead of runner-up Meg Mallon
28 Mar 2000
A Murray County Georgia school bus is hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die in this accident).
28 Mar 2003
In a friendly fire incident two US A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from the 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the invasion of Iraq killing British soldier Matty Hull
28 Mar 2004
Kraft Nabisco Championship Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Grace Park wins her only major title by 1 stroke sinking a 6-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole fellow South Korean Aree Song is runner-up
28 Mar 2004
PGA Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass 23-year old Australian Adam Scott holds on for his 2nd PGA Tour title 1 stroke ahead of Irishman Pdraig Harrington
28 Mar 2005
The Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1960.
28 Mar 2005
PGA Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass 48-year old Fred Funk becomes oldest event winner 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Luke Donald Tom Lehman and Scott Verplank
28 Mar 2006
At least 1 million union members students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the governments proposed First Employment Contract law.
28 Mar 2018
Captain Steve Smith and David Warner are suspended by Cricket Australia for 12 months and Cameron Bancroft (9 months) for their part in the infamous ball-tampering scandal in South Africa
28 Mar 2013
143 rebels and 20 government troop are killed in conflict in Pibor County Sudan
28 Mar 2013
15 students are killed and 7 are injured after a mortar strikes Damascus University
28 Mar 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
28 Mar 2014
Russia increases the price of gas to the Ukraine by 80%
28 Mar 2014
2 cases of Ebola are reported in Liberia among people who have travelled to Guinea
28 Mar 2017
US confirms likely it is behind the air strike in Mosul Iraq that led to collapse of a building that killed more than 100 civilians
28 Mar 2017
Britain introduces 1st new pound coin in 30 years with secret security feature inside to stop counterfeiting
28 Mar 2017
Worlds largest dinosaur footprint at 1.7 metres found in Kimberley Western Australia
28 Mar 2017
Cyclone Debbie strikes north east Queensland coast as a category 4 storm
28 Mar 2018
At least 68 people die and scores are injured in a fire caused by a prison riot in the cells at the Carabobo state police headquarters in Valencia Venezuela
28 Mar 1860
First Taranaki War The Battle of Waireka begins in New Zealand
28 Mar 1905
The Lawa railway from Paramaribo to Dam railway opens in Suriname
28 Mar 1910
1st seaplane takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre)
28 Mar 1942
4th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38 Cardinal forward Howie Dallmar is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
28 Mar 1944
6th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40 Utes first title small forward Arnie Ferrin is named tournament MOP
28 Mar 1977
39th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Marquette beats North Carolina 67-59 Warriors first title coach Al McGuire retires
28 Mar 1979
A partial meltdown at Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US results in the release of radioactive gas and iodine into the atmosphere but no deaths
28 Mar 1982
1st NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Louisiana Tech beats Cheney 76-62 Lady Techsters forward Janice Lawrence tournament MOP
28 Mar 1999
18th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Purdue beats Duke 62-45 Boilermakers Ukari Figgs is named Most Outstanding Player
28 Mar 2007
Sri Lankan cricket fast bowler Lasith Malinga produces unprecedented sequence of 4 wickets in 4 balls as South Africa scrambles to a 1-wicket Super 8s ICC World Cup win in Guyana
28 Mar 2017
US confirms likely it is behind the air strike in Mosul Iraq that led to collapse of a building that killed more than 100 civilians
28 Mar 2019
European parliament bans single-use plastics including cutlery and straws by 2021
28 Mar 2019
Study of a 71 year-old British woman who has never felt pain for the first time understood as due to a gene mutation published in British Journal of Anaesthesia
28 Mar 1972
Elvis Presley records his final Top Ten hit a cover of Burning Love written by Dennis Linde and first recorded by Arthur Alexander
28 Mar 2020
US President Donald Trump makes grim projection that 240000 American could die from COVID-19 even with restrictions in place
28 Mar 1566
Foundation stone laid for the new city of La Valletta in Malta by Knights Hospitaller Grand Master Jean de Valette
28 Mar 1830
Javanese Prince Diponegoro leader of resistance against Dutch colonial rule is arrested by Dutch authorities during peace negotiations
28 Mar 1939
Philip Barrys comic play Philadelphia Story about a socialites impending wedding premieres at the Shubert Theater in NYC star Katherine Hepburn also led the 1940 film version
28 Mar 1942
St. Nazaire Raid (Operation Chariot) obsolete British destroyer HMS Campbeltown rigged with explosives and flying German flags rams gates of German occupied St Nazaire port in France and self detonates kills 360 Germans and disables the dry dock for duration of the war
28 Mar 1944
Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle and begins writing Pippi Longstocking
28 Mar 1953
7th Tony Awards The Crucible (Outstanding Play) & Wonderful Town (Outstanding Musical) win
28 Mar 1954
8th Tony Awards Teahouse of the August Moon (Best Play) & Kismet (Best Musical) win
28 Mar 1962
Devastating 8 for 6 spell by West Indian spin bowler Lance Gibbs gives home side innings & 30 run 3rd Test win over India in Bridgetown
28 Mar 1971
25th Tony Awards Sleuth (Best Play) & Company (Best Musical Original Score Director) win
28 Mar 1975
NHL Washington Capitals win 1st game on road after 37 straight road loses
28 Mar 1979
British government of Prime Minister Jim Callaghan (Labour Party) falls
28 Mar 1979
Frank Lazarus & Dick Vosburghs stage musical comedy A Day in HollywoodA Night in Ukraine premieres at the Mayfair Theatre London England
28 Mar 1981
East German Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 m (40.18 sec) she later breaks her own record twice
28 Mar 2021
Mexico revises its COVID-19 death toll up by 60% to more than 321000 giving it the second highest COVID death toll in the world [1]
28 Mar 1854
Great Britain and France declare war on Russia expanding the Crimean War
28 Mar 1998
Paul Simon and Derek Walcotts musical The Capeman about a 1959 gang murder starring Marc Anthony and Ruben Blades closes at the Marquis Theatre NYC after 68 performances
28 Mar 2014
Russia increases the price of gas to Ukraine by 80%
28 Mar 2022
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs so called Dont Say Gay bill limiting LGBTQ classroom instruction [1]
28 Mar 1802
Wilhelm Olbers discovers 2 Pallas the second known asteroid
28 Mar 1896
Umberto Giordanos opera Andrea Chenier premieres at La Scala Milan with Giuseppe Borgatti singing the title role libretto by Luigi Illica
28 Mar 1927
Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St NYC designed with a modern Spanish exterior and French revival style interior by architect Herbert J. Krapp it is largest of 3 theater and hotel development cuilt by Irving Chanin
28 Mar 1940
WWII Two Dutch Fokker fighter plane crews shoot down British RAF bomber near Rotterdam
28 Mar 1949
English astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term Big Bang in a BBC radio talk while actually arguing for the alternative steady-state theory [1]
28 Mar 1964
Discovery of Epstein-Barr virus the first human tumor virus identified by pathologists English Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr published in Lancet [1]
28 Mar 2023
Chris Sharma completes the first redpoint of Sleeping Lion in Siurana Spain a 9b (5.15c) route
28 Mar 1795
The Duchy of Courland a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia during the partitions of Poland
28 Mar 1809
Battle of Medelln Peninsular War French forces under Marshal Claude Victor defeat the Spanish under General Gregorio Garcia de la Cuesta killing or wounding 8000 Spanish soldiers and opening the way to Southern Spain
28 Mar 1834
US Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for taking federal deposits from Bank of US
28 Mar 1860
First Taranaki War Battle of Waireka begins in New Zealand between Europeans and Mori
28 Mar 1891
1st World Weightlifting Championship is won by Edward Lawrence in London
28 Mar 1896
Umberto Giordanos opera Andrea Chenier premieres at La Scala Teatro in Milan Italy with Giuseppe Borgatti singing the title role and libretto by Luigi Illica
28 Mar 1946
US State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power
28 Mar 1964
First true pirate radio station Englands Radio Caroline begins regular transmission at noon from the MV Caroline off the coast of Suffolk
28 Mar 1979
A partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US results in the release of radioactive gas and iodine into the atmosphere but no deaths
28 Mar 1995
Worlds largest bank - Japans Mitsubishi Bank and the Bank of Tokyo merge
28 Mar 2017
Worlds largest dinosaur footprint measuring 1.7 meters is found in Kimberley Western Australia
28 Mar 2020
US President Donald Trump makes projection that 240000 American could die from COVID-19 even with restrictions in place
28 Mar 2024
Bus crash kills 45 Easter pilgrims from Botswana in South Africa with one child surviving a 50 meter drop off the Mmamatlakala bridge near Mokopane [1]
28 Mar 2024
Italian designer Alessandro Michele previously at Gucci is named the new creative director at French Maison de Couture Valentino [1]
28 Mar 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried founder of FTX exchange sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted of fraud conspiracy and money laundering [1]
28 Mar 1891
First World Weightlifting Championship is won by Edward Lawrence in London
28 Mar 1942
234 RAF bombers degin a two-day attack of the city Lbeck Germany
28 Mar 2025
7.7 magnitude earthquake followed by 6.4 magnitude aftershock strikes central Myanmar causing devastating damage across Southeast Asia leaving more than 4400 people dead at least 7000 injured and hundreds of missing persons [1]