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March 28 in recent years

2008 (Friday)

2007 (Wednesday)

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March 28 is the Template:Day/Totaldays Template:Ordinal/th day of the year (Template:Day/Totaldays Template:Ordinal/th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[" days remaining until the end of the year.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
- 4.1 Liturgical feasts
5 External links

[edit] 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 defeated 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: In the Battle of Medelin France defeats Spain.
1834 - The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding 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 succeed in stopping 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 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 - The exhibition center to host the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair starts being built.
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, 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.
1978 - 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 in order to make way for a forthcoming 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.
2000 - A Murray County, Georgia, school bus gets hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die from 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 attacked 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.

[edit] 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 - 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 entymologist (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
1922 - Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
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, Spanish jazz pianist (d. 1997)
1933 - Frank Murkowski, American politician
1935 - Michael Parkinson, English broadcaster
1936 - Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and politician
1940 - Tony Barber, Australian television personality
1941 - Alf Clausen, orchestra conductor (The Simpsons)
1941 - Jim Turner, American football player
1942 - Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
1942 - Neil Kinnock, British statesman
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 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 - 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 - Elisabeth Andreassen, Scandinavian singer
1958 - Bart Conner, American gymnast
1958 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1959 - Chris Myers, American sportscaster
1960 - Chris Barrie, British actor
1960 - José Maria Neves, Cape Verdeian politician
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
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 - Edwar Ramirez, American baseball player
1982 - Sonia Agarwal, Indian actress
1982 - Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer
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
1991 - Amy Bruckner, American actress
1991 - Sophie Mullen, English actress