28 March In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, on March 28, the day number in a year is 88 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 89. March 28 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1561	Akbar invaded Malwa's capital Sarangpur and defeated Bajbahadur.
1736	British inventor James Watt was born in Greenec, northern England.
1738	Jenkin's Air War; Parliament requested an address to the king asking him to deal with Spain.
1802	Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered the asteroid Pallas.
1802	German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
1806	Washington College (now Washington and Jefferson College) was founded by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
1809	Spain was defeated at the hands of France in the Madeline war.
1862	The American Civil War-era invasion of New Mexico Territory by the Confederate States Army was stopped at the Battle of Glorieta Pass.
1866	The first ambulance was prepared for service.
1891	The first world weightlifting championship was held.
1910	Near Martigues, France, French aviator Henri Fabre's Faberhydravian becomes the first seaplane to take off from water under its own power.
1920	An outbreak of 37 tornadoes in the Midwestern and Southern United States killed more than 380 people.
1922	American inventor Bradley A. Fiske patented the microfilm reading device.
193	The Praetorian Guards assassinate Roman Emperor Pertinax and sell the throne at an auction to Didius Julianus.
1930	Many Turkish cities were renamed. From the same day the capital 'Angora' was renamed 'Ankara' and 'Constaninople' was changed to 'Istanbul'.
1930	Turkey changed the name of its largest city, Constantinople, to Istanbul.
1933	A passenger aboard an Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool started a fire on board, causing it to break up and crash in mid-air.
1941	Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, who was under house arrest, fled from Calcutta to Berlin.
1942	In World War II-occupied France, British naval forces unsuccessfully blockaded the key port of Saint-Nazaire.
1949	United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal abruptly resigns
1959	China disbanded the government of Tibet and instigated the Panchen Lama.
1962	President Nazim al-Qudsi fled the country after a military coup in Syria.
1965	Doctor Martin Luther King marched with 25,000 people to the rights of black Americans in Mottgumery, the capital of Alabama.
1979	The Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has a partial core meltdown, resulting in the release of an estimated 43,000 curries (1.59 PBq) of environmentally friendly cryptonto.
1979	British Prime Minister James Callaghan was defeated in a motion of no confidence by the House of Commons after he was defeated by an electorate, trading in a 'Winter of Discontent' struggling to deal with widespread attacks.
1981	Indonesian terrorists hijacked a plane in Thailand's capital Bangkok.
1996	The program was open to seven guitars at Walter Kerr Threaten in New York City.
1996	Katie Beam, who was a 17-year-old, Oklahoma born America's 35th Miss Teenage.
1999	Vince Williams won the Lipton Cup by defeating sister Serene. This was the first time in 115 years.
1999	NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament in San Jose.
1999	Serbian police and special forces killed at least 89 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica in the Drenica region of central Kosovo.
2003	Invasion of Iraq – In a friendly fire incident, two members of the United States Air Force attacked the United Kingdom's Blues and Royals of the Home Cavalry, killing one and wounding five British civilians.
2005	An earthquake in the island of Sumatra shook the whole of Indonesia. This earthquake was the fourth largest earthquake after 1965.
2005	The Sunaratan earthquake with a magnitude of 8.7 on the Richter scale was the second largest after 1965.
2010	British broadcasts reveal evidence of a massacre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo carried out by Lord's Resistance Army last December, in which 321 people, including children, were killed.
2011	Due to radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency convened a summit to discuss concerns about nuclear safety.
2012	In the country of the United States, the Mega Millions jackpot reaches a world record in lottery history of $500 million dollars.
2013	History's biggest attack on the Internet. Internet speed slowed worldwide.
2013	Peter Woolcott who was an Australian diplomat first drafted the regulation regulating the treaty. Conventional arms trade is discussed by members of the United Nations.
2013	Russia conducts military drills in the Black Sea without notifying NATO of criticism.
2014	An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale hits Southern California; The quake was about 22 miles southeast of Los Angeles near La Habra.

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1926	Polly Umrigar / Cricketer / India
1927	Vina Mazumdar / Activist / India
1951	Razak Khan / Actor / India
1956	Dr Swati Piramal / Vice Chairperson / India
1968	Nasser Hussain / Cricketer / India
1975	Akshay Khanna / Actor / India
1978	Nafisa Joseph / Model / India

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