About March 28
March 28, 2024 is the 88th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 278 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 307 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 28
- 193 –Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
- 1776 –Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
- 1794 –Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
- 1802 –Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
- 1809 –Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.
- 1854 –Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
- 1860 –First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
- 1871 –The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
- 1939 –Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid.
- 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 heavy cruisers and two destroyers.
- 1942 –World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully 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 –The 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 –Operators of Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open following an unexpected shutdown. As a result, enough coolant drains out of the system to allow the core to overheat and partially melt down.
- 1979 –The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan’s government, precipitating a general election.
- 1994 –BBC Radio 5 is closed and replaced with a new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live.
- 1994 –In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
- 1999 –Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre.
- 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.
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