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This day in history: 28 March

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317 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 28 March.
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2025: An earthquake strikes close to Mandalay, Myanmar with a magnitude of 7.7, killing over 5400 people.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Christopher Wharton

Christian feast day: Jeanne-Marie de Maille

Christian feast day: Józef Sebastian Pelczar

Christian feast day: March 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Pope Sixtus III

Christian feast day: Priscus

Christian feast day: Stephen Harding

Serfs Emancipation Day (Tibet)

Teachers' Day (Czech Republic and Slovakia)

Events

2025An earthquake strikes close to Mandalay, Myanmar with a magnitude of 7.7, killing over 5400 people.

2020The region of Uusimaa (with the capital city Helsinki) is temporarily isolated from the rest of Finland due to increased COVID-19 infections.

2006At least one million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.

2005An earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a magnitude of 8.6 and killing over 1000 people.

2003In a friendly fire incident, two American A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing one soldier.

2001Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos begins operation.

1999Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill at least 130 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica.

1994In South Africa, African National Congress security guards kill dozens of Inkatha Freedom Party protesters.

1990United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.

1979A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.

1979The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by one vote, precipitating a general election.

1978The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.

1970An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring at least 1,200.

1969Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.

1968Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a student protest.

1965An Mw 7.4 earthquake in Chile sets off a series of tailings dam failures, burying the town of El Cobre and killing at least 500 people.

1963Civil rights movement: Over one hundred high school students conduct a sit-in protest in Rome, Georgia.

1961ČSA Flight 511 crashes in Igensdorf, Germany, killing 52.

1959The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.

1946Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.

1942World War II: A British combined force permanently disables the Louis Joubert Lock in Saint-Nazaire in order to keep the German battleship Tirpitz away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes.

1941World War II: First day of the Battle of Cape Matapan in Greece between the navies of the United Kingdom and Australia, and the Royal Italian navy.

1939Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.

1933The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.

1920Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.

1918Finnish Civil War: On the so-called "Bloody Maundy Thursday of Tampere", the Whites force the Reds to attack the city center, where the city's fiercest battles being fought in Kalevankangas with large casualties on both sides. During the sa

1918General John J. Pershing, during World War I, cancels 42nd 'Rainbow' Division's orders to Rolampont for further training and diverted it to the occupy the Baccarat sector. Rainbow Division becomes "the first American division to take over a

1910Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from water runway Étang le Barre, near Marseille.

1862American Civil War: In the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory. The battle began on March 26.

1860First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.

1854Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.

1842First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai.

1814War of 1812: In the Battle of Valparaíso, two American naval vessels are captured by two Royal Navy vessels.

1809Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medellín.

1802Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.

1801Treaty of Florence is signed, ending the war between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Naples.

1795Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.

1776Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.

1745War of the Austrian Succession: In the Battle of Vilshofen, Austrian forces defeat French forces.

1566The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta's capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

Born on this day

2004Anna Shcherbakova, Russian figure skater

2001Wang Xiyu, Chinese tennis player

1998Lance Morris, Australian cricketer

1996Matt Renshaw, English-Australian cricketer

1996Max Strus, American basketball player

1995Jonathan Drouin, Canadian ice hockey player

1995Will Smith, American baseball player

1994Jackson Wang, Hong Kong rapper

1992Sergi Gómez, Spanish footballer

1991Christian Walker, American baseball player

1991Derek Carr, American football player

1991Hoya, South Korean singer and dancer

1991Jordan McRae, American basketball player

1991Lisa-Maria Moser, Austrian tennis player

1991Marie-Philip Poulin, Canadian ice hockey player

1991Ondřej Palát, Czech ice hockey player

1990Delroy Edwards, American musician

1990Laura Harrier, American actress and model

1989Logan Couture, Canadian ice hockey player

1989Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer

1989Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater

1988Geno Atkins, American football player

1988Ryan Kalish, American baseball player

1987Jonathan Van Ness, American hairdresser and television personality

1987Simeon Jackson, Canadian soccer player

1987Yohan Benalouane, French-Tunisian footballer

1986Barbora Strýcová, Czech tennis player

1986Bowe Bergdahl, American sergeant

1986J-Kwon, American rapper

1986Lady Gaga, American singer-songwriter and actress

1986Mustafa Ali, American wrestler

1985Josh Bray, American politician

1985Stanislas Wawrinka, Swiss tennis player

1985Stefano Ferrario, Italian footballer

1985Steve Mandanda, French footballer

1984Christopher Samba, Congolese footballer

1983Ladji Doucouré, French sprinter and hurdler

1981Aleksandra Leo, Polish politician and lawyer

1981Edwar Ramírez, American baseball player

1981Julia Stiles, American actress

Died on this day

2026Liamine Zéroual, Algerian politician, 6th President of Algeria (born 1941)

2026Marinella, Greek singer (born 1938)

2026Mary Beth Hurt, American actress (born 1946)

2024Larry Lloyd, English professional football player and coach (born 1948)

2024Mark Spiro, American songwriter, record producer and recording artist (born 1957)

2023Paul O'Grady, English comedian, actor and drag queen (born 1955)

2023Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese composer, record producer, and actor (born 1952)

2021Didier Ratsiraka, Malagasy politician and naval officer (born 1936)

2021Joseph Edward Duncan, American serial killer (born 1963)

2016James Noble, American actor (born 1922)

2015Chuck Brayton, American baseball player and coach (born 1925)

2015Gene Saks, American actor and director (born 1921)

2015Joseph Cassidy, Canadian-English priest and academic (born 1954)

2015Miroslav Ondříček, Czech cinematographer (born 1934)

2014Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (born 1924)

2014Lorenzo Semple, Jr., American screenwriter and producer (born 1923)

2013Bob Teague, American college football star and television news-reporter (born 1929)

2013George E. P. Box, English-American statistician and educator (born 1919)

2013Gus Triandos, American baseball player and scout (born 1930)

2013Hugh McCracken, American guitarist, harmonica player, and producer (born 1942)

2013Richard Griffiths, English actor (born 1947)

2012Addie L. Wyatt, African American labor leader (born 1924)

2012Harry Crews, American novelist (born 1935)

2012Ioannis Banias, Greek politician (born 1939)

2012John Arden, English author and playwright (born 1930)

2010June Havoc, American actress, dancer, and director (born 1912)

2009Janet Jagan, 6th President of Guyana (born 1920)

2009Maurice Jarre, French-American composer and conductor (born 1924)

2006Caspar Weinberger, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1917)

2006Charles Schepens, Belgian-American ophthalmologist and author (born 1912)

Quote of the day

“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms; you will be able to use them better when you are older.”

Seneca

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