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MARCH 28: THIS DAY IN THE PAST - NGÀY NẦY NĂM XƯA

Saturday, March 28, 2015


Today in History
March 28
1774Britain passes the Coercive Act against rebellious Massachusetts.
1854Britain and France declare war on Russia.
1864A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in Charleston, Illinois. Five are killed and twenty wounded.
1885The Salvation Army is officially organized in the United States.
1908Automobile owners lobby Congress in support of a bill that calls for vehicle licensing and federal registration.
1910The first seaplane takes off from water at Martinques, France.
1917The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded, Great Britain's first official service women.
1921President Warren Harding names William Howard Taft as chief justice of the United States.
1930Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara respectively.
1933Nazis order a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.
1939The Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to Francisco Franco.
1941The Italian fleet is routed by the British at the Battle of Battle of Cape Matapan
1941English novelist Virginia Woolf throws herself into the River Ouse near her home in Sussex. Her body is never found.
1942A British ship, the HMS Capbeltown, a Lend-Lease American destroyer, which was specifically rammed into a German occupied dry-dock in France, explodes, knocking the area out of action for the German battleship Tirpitz.
1945Germany launches the last of its V-2 rockets against England.
1946Juan Peron is elected President of Argentina. He will hold the office for six years.
1962The U.S. Air Force announces research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and satellites.
1969Dwight D. Eisenhower dies at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, D.C.
1979A major accident occurs at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
1986The U.S. Senate passes $100 million aid package for the Nicaraguan contras.
1990Jesse Owens receives the Congressional Gold Medal from President George Bush.
1999An American Stealth F117 Nighthawk is shot down over northern Yugoslavia during NATO air strikes.
Born on March 28
1652Samuel Sewall, British colonial merchant and one of the Salem witch trial judges.
1818Wade Hampton, Confederate general in the American Civil War.
1862Aristide Briand, premier of France (1909-22).
1868Maxim Gorky, Russian short story writer and novelist.
1895James McCudden, the first RAF pilot to receive the Victoria Cross.
1909Nelson Algren, novelist (The Man with the Golden Arm, A Walk on the Wild Side).
1929Frederick Exley, American novelist (A Fan's Notes).
1930Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, helped confirm the existence of quarks.
1936Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes).
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