28 March In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, on March 28, the day number in a year is 87 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 88. 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.

World Events

Important Historical Events of 28 March in the World ⚡

Year	Incident/Event
193	Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax and sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
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.
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	American Civil War-An invasion of the New Mexico Territory by the Confederate States Army was halted 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 Hydravion became the first seaplane to take off from water under its own power.
1920	An outbreak of 37 tornadoes across the Mid Western and Southern United States left more than 380 people dead.
1922	American inventor Bradley A. Fiske patented the microfilm reading device.
1930	Turkey changed the name of its largest city Constantinople to Istanbul.
1930	Many Turkish cities were renamed. From the same day the capital \ Angora \ was renamed \ Ankara \ and \ Constaninople \ was changed to \ Istanbul \.
1933	A passenger board the Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool set a fire on board, causing it to break apart in mid-air and crash.
1941	Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, who was under house arrest, fled from Calcutta to Berlin.
1942	Second World War-In occupied France, British naval force successfully disabled 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	A partial core meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, resulted in there lease of an estimated 43,000 curies (1.59 PBq) of radioactive kryptonto the environment.
1979	British Prime Minister James Callaghan was defeated by one votein a motion of no confidence by the House of Commons after hisgovernment struggled to cope with widespread strikes by trade unionsduring the 'Winter of Discontent'.
1981	Indonesian terrorists hijacked a plane in Thailand's capital Bangkok.
1996	In the Walter Kerr Threat of New York City the program seven guitars was open.
1996	Katie Beam, who was 17 year old of Oklahoma grounded 35th Miss Teenage of America.
1999	NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship at 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.
1999	Vince Williams won the Lipton Cup by defeating sister Serene. This was the first time in 115 years.
2003	Invasion of Iraq-In a friendly fire incident, two members ofthe United States Air Force attacked the United Kingdom's Blues andRoyals of the Household Cavalry, killing one and injuring five Britishsoldiers.
2005	Sumatran earthquake with a magnitude of 8.7 in Richter scale was the second largest earthquake since 1965.
2005	An earthquake in the island of Sumatra shook the whole of Indonesia. This earthquake was the fourth largest earthquake after 1965.
2010	The British broadcasting finds evidence of a Massacre in the democratic republic of Congo carried out by the Lord Resistance Army last December, in which 321 people, including children, were killed.
2011	Due to the radiation leak at the Fukushima Nuclear plant, the international atomic energy agency called for summit to discuss concerns about its nuclear safety.
2012	In the country OF United States, the mega millions jackpot reaches a world record in the lottery history of $500 million dollar.
2013	Peter Woolcott who was an Australian diplomat draft for the first ever treaty to regulate. The conventional arms trade is discussed by members of the United Nations.
2013	Russia conducted unscheduled military exercises in the Black sea by not informing NATO criticism.
2013	History's biggest attack on the Internet. Internet speed slowed worldwide.
2014	An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale hit South California; the quake was about 22 miles Southeast of Los Angeles near La Habra.