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.
- 1939 - Dictator Francisco Franco conquers Madrid, ending the Spanish Civil War.
- 1949 - Louis A. Johnson was sworn in as the 2nd Secretary of Defense of United States
- 1979 - 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.
Births
- 1609 - Frederick III of Denmark (+ 1670)
- 1749 - Pierre Simon de Laplace, mathematician and astronomer (+ 1827)
- 1862 - Aristide Briand, politician, winner of the Nobel Prize in peace 1926 (+ 1932)
- 1868 - Maxim Gorki, author (+ 1936)
- 1897 - Sepp Herberger, association football coach (+ 1977)
- 1904 - Werner Bahlsen, biscuit producer (+ 1985)
- 1936 - Mario Vargas Llosa, author and politician
Deaths
- 193 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (assassination)
- 1794 - Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist
- 1881 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer
- 1943 - Sergei Rachmaninov, composer and pianist
- 1953 - Jim Thorpe, sportsman
- 1958 - W.C. Handy - Blues composer
- 1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, US General of the Army, 34th president of the United States
- 1994 - Eugène Ionesco, playwright
- 2000 - Anthony Powell, British novelist
Holidays and observances
See Also:
March 27 - March 29 - February 28 - April 28 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December