Page 8: Historical Events In March - 28

1985  Marc Chagall, French painter, dies at 97.   

1986  Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India   

1986  John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA   

1986  Victor J Lopez, actor (Chuey-Man From Atlantis), dies at 39   

1987  Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway   

1987  Maria Augusta Trapp, singer (Trapp Family Singers), dies at 82   

1989  In this year, New Zealand claims America's Cup over Stars and Stripes, in a New York court.   

1990  President Bush awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal   

1990  Three arrested in London in plot to smuggle US-made nuclear triggering devices to Iraq   

1990  Helene Fortescu Reynolds, actress (Bermuda Mystery), dies at 65.   

1991  Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son   

1991  Carlos Montalban, actor (Bananas), dies at 85.   

1992  Wendell Mayes, writer, dies of cancer at 72.   

1993  Conservatives win French parliamentary election   

1993  Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031)   

1994  Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed   

1994  In this year, Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi claims election.   

1995  Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett split-up.   

1995  Queensland beat South Australia to win inaugural ever cricket Sheffield Shield   

1995  World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank and Bank of Tokyo merge   

1996  In Ecuador a 6.0 earthquake occurred at least 27 people killed, 100 injured, several thousand homeless   

1996  Katie Beam, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 35th Miss Teenage America.   

1999  In the Xizang-India Border Region a 5.5 earthquake occurred At least 61 people killed and 125 injured in the Chamoli district; 34 killed and 177 injured in the Rudraprayag district; 5 killed and 60 injured in the Tehri Garhwal district; 19 injured in the Bageshwar district; 13 injured in the Pauri Garhwal district, India   

2005  The 205 Sumatran earthquake struck off Sumatra, 3 months after the 204 Indian Ocean earthquake. At a magnitude of 8.7 it is the second largest earthquake since 1965   

2007  Former MLB pitcher Ugueth Urbina is sentenced to 14 years in prison   

2013  143 rebels and 20 government troop are killed in conflict in Pibor County, Sudan.   

2014  Russia increases the price of gas to the Ukraine by 80%   

2017  US confirms likely it is behind the air strike in Mosul, Iraq that led to collapse of a building that killed more than 100 civilians   

2017  Britain introduces 1st new pound coin in 30 years with secret security feature inside to stop counterfeiting   

2017  World's largest dinosaur footprint at 1.7 metres are discovered in Kimberley, Western Australia   

2017  US President Donald Trump signs Energy Independence executive order undoing Obama climate-control measures   

2017  Cyclone Debbie strikes north east Queensland coast as a category 4 storm.   

2018  North Korea's Kim Jong-un meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, his inaugural trip outside of North Korea since coming to power in 2011.   

2018  At least 68 people die and scores are injured in a fire caused by a prison riot in the cells at the Carabobo state police headquarters in Valencia, Venezuela   

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1468  Charles I, Duke of Savoy was born on March - 28.   

1472  Fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter was born on March - 28.   

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  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  On this day in history 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 March - 28.   

0593  On March - 28 guntram, French king in Burgundy, dies at about 67   

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  Death of Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180) on March - 28.   

1285  On March - 28 martinus IV, [Simon de Brion], Pope (1281-85), dies   

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

1566  Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat, dies at 79 on March - 28.