Page 5: Historical Events In March - 28

1920  On this day in history actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford   

1920  On March - 28 thomas Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia   

1921  On this day in history the birth of Sir Dirk Bogarde, British actor   

1922  The first microfilm device introduced - where is the CIA? on this day in history.   

1922  On March - 28 1st microfilm device introduced   

1924  WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions on this day in history.   

1927  Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St NYC on March - 28.   

1927  On March - 28 karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57   

1928  Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63 on March - 28.   

1929  Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador on this day in history.   

1930  On March - 28 constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara   

1930  On March - 28 1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston)   

1933  On this day in history german Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler   

1935  On March - 28 goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket   

1939  Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down on March - 28.   

1940  On this day in history construction begins of the exhibition center to host the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair.   

1941  On this day in history sea battle at Cape Matapan British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy   

1941  Sea battle at Cape Matapan: Brit fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy on March - 28.   

1941  Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To Lighthouse), suicide 59 on this day in history.   

1941  Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy on March - 28.   

1942  On March - 28 234 RAF bombers attack Lübeck   

1942  British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire on March - 28.   

1942  -29] 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck on March - 28.   

1942  On this day in history herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67   

1943  On March - 28 sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69   

1944  On March - 28 6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40   

1944  Chayyim Most, Rabbi/Maggid of Kovono, killed by nazis on this day in history.   

1945  On March - 28 last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London   

1945  The last V2 German rocket of World War II falls on London on this day in history.   

1945  On March - 28 last German V-2 (buzz bomb) attack on London   

1946  Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power on this day in history.   

1947  Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer, dies at 57 on March - 28.   

1948  2nd Tony Awards Mister Roberts win on March - 28.   

1948  2nd Tony Awards: Mister Roberts win on March - 28.   

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1468  On March - 28 birth of charles I, Duke of Savoy   

1472  On this day in history birth of fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter   

1472  Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517) was born on this day in history.   

1483  Raphael, Urbino Italy, painter (School of Athens) was born on this day in history.   

1515  On this day in history birth of theresa of Avila/Teresa de Jesus, Spanish mystic writer/saint   

1522  On March - 28 birth of albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557)   

1569  Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622) was born on March - 28.   

1592  Jan Amos Komensky, [Comenius] Moravian educational reB03281603 Stephan Otto, composer was born on March - 28.   

0193  Death of Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated on this day in history.   

0593  Guntram, French king in Burgundy, dies at about 67 on this day in history.   

1072  Death of Ordulf, Duke of Saxony on this day in history.   

1134  Stefanus Harding, 3rd abbott of Côteaux/saint, dies on March - 28.   

1239  On this day in history death of emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)   

1285  Martinus IV, [Simon de Brion], Pope (1281-85), dies on this day in history.   

1563  On March - 28 death of heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)   

1566  Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat, dies at 79 on this day in history.