Page 5: Historical Events In March - 28

1920  Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford on March - 28.   

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  The first microfilm device introduced - where is the CIA? on March - 28.   

1922  On this day in history 1st microfilm device introduced   

1924  On March - 28 wGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions   

1927  Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St NYC on this day in history.   

1927  On this day in history karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57   

1928  On March - 28 giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63   

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  German Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

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

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

1942  Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67 on March - 28.   

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

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

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

1945  Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London on March - 28.   

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

1945  On this day in history 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 March - 28.   

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

1948  On this day in history 2nd Tony Awards Mister Roberts win   

1948  2nd Tony Awards: Mister Roberts win on this day in history.   

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Next Page »

1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31

1468  On this day in history 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  On March - 28 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  Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622) was born on this day in history.   

1592  On March - 28 birth of jan Amos Komensky, [Comenius] Moravian educational reB03281603 Stephan Otto, composer   

0193  On March - 28 death of publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated   

0593  On this day in history guntram, French king in Burgundy, dies at about 67   

1072  On this day in history death of ordulf, Duke of Saxony   

1134  Stefanus Harding, 3rd abbott of Côteaux/saint, dies on this day in history.   

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.