Today in History
28th March
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28th March |
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| 1468 Charles I, Duke of Savoy was born | ||
| 1472 Fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter was born | ||
| 1483 Raphael, Urbino Italy, painter (School of Athens) was born | ||
| 1515 Theresa of Avila/Teresa de Jesus, Spanish mystic writer/saint was born | ||
| 1535 Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed | ||
| 1556 Karel V's son Philip II crowned king of Spain | ||
| 1556 Origin of Fasli Era (India) | ||
| 1615 Pieter de Groot, Dutch regent/diplomat was born | ||
| 1660 Georg Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/King George I of Gt Britain | ||
| 1727 Maximilian III Jozef, Elector of Bayern (1745-77) was born | ||
| 1729 Pieter Fouquet, Dutch art seller (Atlas of Fouquet) was born | ||
| 1738 English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear) | ||
| 1750 Francisco A G de Miranda, Venezuelan freedom fighter was born | ||
| 1774 Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts | ||
| 1794 Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August) | ||
| 1797 Nathaniel Briggs patents a washing machine. | ||
| 1799 NY State abolished slavery | ||
| 1804 Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804 | ||
| 1845 Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US | ||
| 1849 Dutch princess Marianne & Prince Albert of Prussia separate | ||
| 1854 During the Crimean War, Britain & France declare war on Russia | ||
| 1859 1st performance of John Brahms' 1st Serenade for orchestra | ||
| 1862 Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia | ||
| 1866 1st ambulance goes into service | ||
| 1881 Greatest Show On Earth was formed by PT Barnum & James A Bailey | ||
| 1885 The U.S. Salvation Army is officially organized. | ||
| 1896 The opera "Andrea Chenier" is produced (Milan) | ||
| 1910 1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre) | ||
| 1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities | ||
| 1920 Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia | ||
| 1929 Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador | ||
| 1930 1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston) | ||
| 1930 The cities of Constantinople and Angora changes names to Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. | ||
| 1933 The German Reichstag confers dictatorial powers to Adolph Hitler | ||
| 1935 Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket | ||
| 1939 Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down | ||
| 1939 The Spanish Civil War ends. | 1939, the Spanish Civil War ends. | |
| 1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan: Brit fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy | ||
| 1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire | ||
| 1942 Raid on lock/dock St Nazaire | ||
| 1945 Last German V-2 (buzz bomb) attack on London | ||
| 1959 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's govt & installs Panchen Lama | ||
| 1960 Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African & 1st Filipino cardinal | ||
| 1960 Scotch factory explodes burying 20 fire fighters (Glasgow Scotland) | ||
| 1962 Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives WI cricket victory over India | ||
| 1962 Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees | ||
| 1964 1st pirate radio station near England (Radio Caroline) | ||
| 1964 9.2 earthquake shakes Prince William Sound, Alaska | ||
| 1967 UN Sect General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam | ||
| 1969 The 34th president of the United States, Dwight D Eisenhower, dies in Washington at 78. | ||
| 1970 A magnitude 7.1 quake destroys more than 200 Turkish villages, killing 1,300 people. (Gediz Turkey) | ||
| 1977 Morarji Desai forms govt in India | ||
| 1979 British government of Callaghan falls | ||
| 1986 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India | ||
| 1986 John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA | ||
| 1990 Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient | ||
| 1990 President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal | ||
| 1993 Conservatives win French parliamentary election | ||
| 1994 Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed | ||
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