Historical Events In March - 28

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

1920  Thomas Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia on March - 28.  

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

1922  On this day in history the first microfilm device introduced - where is the CIA?  

1922  1st microfilm device introduced on March - 28.  

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

1927  On this day in history majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St NYC  

1927  Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57 on March - 28.  

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

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

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1930  Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara on this day in history.  

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

1933  On March - 28 german Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler  

1935  Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket on this day in history.  

1939  On this day in history dutch hunter shoots English bombers down  

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 March - 28.  

1941  Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy on this day in history.  

1942  234 RAF bombers attack Lübeck on this day in history.  

1942  British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire on this day in history.  

1942  On March - 28 -29] 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck  

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 March - 28.  

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

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

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

1948  On March - 28 2nd Tony Awards Mister Roberts win  

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

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1468  Charles I, Duke of Savoy was born on this day in history.  

1472  Fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter was born on this day in history.  

1472  Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517) was born on March - 28.  

1483  On this day in history birth of raphael, Urbino Italy, painter (School of Athens)  

1515  Theresa of Avila/Teresa de Jesus, Spanish mystic writer/saint was born on this day in history.  

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

1569  On March - 28 birth of ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622)  

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  On March - 28 guntram, French king in Burgundy, dies at about 67  

1072  Death of Ordulf, Duke of Saxony on March - 28.  

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

1239  On March - 28 death of emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)  

1285  On this day in history martinus IV, [Simon de Brion], Pope (1281-85), dies  

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

1566  On March - 28 siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat, dies at 79