This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
03/28/1468 Charles I, Duke of Savoy 
03/28/1472 Fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter 
03/28/1515 Theresia van Avila/Teresa de Jesus, Spanish mystic writer/saint 
03/28/1592 Jan Amos Komensky, [Comenius] Moravian educational reformer 
03/28/1603 Stephan Otto, composer 
03/28/1615 Pieter the Great, regent/diplomat 
03/28/1621 Heinrich Schwemmer, composer 
03/28/1643 Jose Solana, composer 
03/28/1660 Arnold Houbraken, painter/writer 
03/28/1727 Maximilian III Jozef, King of Bayern (1745-77) 
03/28/1729 Pieter Fouquet, art seller (Atlas of Fouquet) 
03/28/1737 Francesco Zannetti, composer 
03/28/1741 Johann Andre, composer 
03/28/1750 Francisco AG de Miranda, Venezuelan freedom fighter 
03/28/1760 Thomas Clarkson, English abolitionist (Negro Emancipation) 
03/28/1766 Joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Emmeline) 
03/28/1779 Angelo Maria Benincori, composer 
03/28/1806 Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1861-66) 
03/28/1817 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer 
03/28/1818 Wade Hampton, SC, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1902 
03/28/1853 Rudolf Kittel, German theologist (Psalms) 
03/28/1859 Jos‚phin P‚ladan, French writer/founder (French Red Cross) 
03/28/1862 Aristide Briand, France, 11x premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926) 
03/28/1868 Maxim Gorki, [Aleksei Peshikov], Russia, writer (Mother) (3/16 OS) 
03/28/1868 Wojciech Gawronski, composer 
03/28/1871 Willem Mengelberg, Utrecht Neth, conductor (NY Philharmonic 1922-30)

03/28/1872 Jos‚ Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general (Morocco) 
03/28/1880 Rosina Lh‚vinne, Kiev Ukraine, pianist/prof (Juiliard Grad School) 
03/28/1883 William H Harris, composer 
03/28/1885 Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer 
03/28/1886 Jaroslav Novotny, composer 
03/28/1887 Rudolf F W Boskaljon, Cura‡ao, musician/composer 
03/28/1890 Paul Whiteman, Denver Co, orch leader (Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club)

03/28/1891 Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (S Verlag) 
03/28/1895 Spencer W Kimball, 12th prophet of Mormon church 
03/28/1900 Achille Longo, composer 
03/28/1900 Robert Harris, actor (Big Caper, Laughing Anne) 
03/28/1902 Flora Robson, actress (Dominique is Dead, Years Between) 
03/28/1902 Paul Godwin, [Goldfein], Polish/Dutch violinist 
03/28/1903 Rudolf Serkin, Eger Bohemia, pianist (Marlboro Sch of Music) 
03/28/1904 Fosco Giachetti, actor (Wastrel, We the Living) 
03/28/1905 Marlin Perkins, Carthage Mo, TV host (Wild Kingdom) 
03/28/1906 Joseph Wright, Canada, oarsman (Olympic-gold-1928) 
03/28/1909 Nelson Algren, US, novelist (Man with the Golden Arm) 
03/28/1910 Ingrid, Queen Mother of Denmark 
03/28/1912 A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, UK, sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space

03/28/1914 Edmund S Muskie, (Sen-D-Me)/US Sec of State (1980) 
03/28/1914 Frank Lovejoy, Bronx NY, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw) 
03/28/1919 Jacob Avshalomov, Tsingtao China, composer (Sinfonietta, The Oregon)

03/28/1920 Dirk Bogarde, England, actor (Death in Venice, Servant) 
03/28/1920 Gene Chappie, (Rep-R-CA, 1981-86) 
03/28/1920 Lord Butterfield 
03/28/1924 Freddie Bartholomew, England, actor (Anna Karenina, David Copperfiel

03/28/1926 Francis Burt, composer 
03/28/1928 Jose Luis de Delas, composer 
03/28/1928 Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor under Carter 
03/28/1930 George Bruce, painter 
03/28/1930 Robert Ashley, composer 
03/28/1932 Sven Oskar Lindqvist, Swedish writer (Myten om Wu Tao-tzu) 
03/28/1933 Frank H Murkowski, (Sen-R Alaska) 
03/28/1934 Siegfried Thiele, composer 
03/28/1936 Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru, writer (Aunt Julia)/pres candidate 
03/28/1940 Kevin Loughery, NBA star/coach (Balt, Phila) 
03/28/1941 Alf Clausen, Minneapolis Mn, orch leader (Mary, Simpsons) 
03/28/1941 Charlie McCoy, Oak Hill WV, harmonica player (Hee Haw) 
03/28/1942 Neil Kinnock, leader of the British opposition (Labour) 
03/28/1942 Samuel Ramey, Colby Kansas, bass (La Scala) 
03/28/1943 Conchata Ferrell, Charleston WV, actress (Deadly Hero, LA Law) 
03/28/1944 Ken Howard, El Centro Calif, actor (Ken-White Shadow, Dynasty, 1776)

03/28/1944 Rick Barry, ABA/NBA forward (NY Nets, Golden State Warriors) 
03/28/1945 Chuck Potz, bassist (Turtles-Happy Together) 
03/28/1945 Hans Brunhart, leader of Liechtenstein (1978-  ) 
03/28/1948 Dianne Wiest, actress (Radio Days, Hannah & Her Sisters, Footloose) 
03/28/1948 John Evans, drummer (Blades-A Song for Jeffrey) 
03/28/1948 Wubbo J Ockels, Almelo Netherlands, astronaut (STS 22) 
03/28/1949 Milan Williams, US keyboardist (Commodores-Three Times a Lady) 
03/28/1949 Ronnie Ray Smith, 4 X 100m relay runner (Olympic-gold-1968) 
03/28/1953 Nydia M Velazquez, (Rep-D-New York, 1993-  ) 
03/28/1955 Reba McEntire, McAlester Ok, country singer (Can't Even Get the Blue

03/28/1956 Evelin Jahl, German DR, discus thrower (Olympic-2 gold-1976) 
03/28/1957 Harvey Glance, Pheonix City Ala, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1976) 
03/28/1958 Bart Wayne Conner, Chicago Ill, gymnist (Olympic-2 gold-1984) 
03/28/1959 Todd Curtis, actor (Capitol, Skip-Young & Restless) 
03/28/1962 Ged Grimes, [Danny Wilson], rocker (Mary's Prayer) 
03/28/1969 Salt, rocker (Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang) 
03/28/1972 Jonathan Edwards, Boston Mass, doubles luger (Olympics-1994) 
03/28/1977 Angelo Garcia, Brooklyn NY, singer (Menudo-Cannonball) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
03/28/ 193 Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated 
03/28/ 593 Guntram, French king to Bourgondie, dies at about 67 
03/28/1134 Stefanus Harding, 3rd abbott of CŒteaux/saint, dies 
03/28/1285 Martinus IV, [Simon de Brion], Pope (1281-85), dies 
03/28/1673 Adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, buried at 51 
03/28/1687 Constantine Huygens, diplomat/poet/composer (Korenbloemen), dies at 

03/28/1701 Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor, dies at 75 
03/28/1712 John van Heyden, painter/inventor (street lantern), dies at 75 
03/28/1758 Jonathan Edwards, US theologist (Great Awakening), dies 
03/28/1799 Etta LJ 'baronne' Palm-Aelders, adventurer/spy, dies at 55 
03/28/1801 Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66

03/28/1818 Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer, dies at 62 
03/28/1840 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89 
03/28/1847 Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer, dies at 67 
03/28/1856 Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer, dies at 76 
03/28/1860 Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer, dies at 73 
03/28/1863 James Cooper, US attorney/senator/Union-brig-general, dies at 52 
03/28/1865 Albert G Bilders, landscape painter, dies at 26 
03/28/1877 Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer, dies at 77 
03/28/1880 Achille Peri, composer, dies at 67 
03/28/1881 Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, composer, dies at 42 
03/28/1885 Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer, dies at 53 
03/28/1889 Matilde 'Tillie' Ziegler, 1st on electric chair 
03/28/1907 Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, composer, dies at 65 
03/28/1910 Edouard [Judas] Colonne, French violinist/conductor, dies 
03/28/1914 Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55 
03/28/1927 Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57 
03/28/1928 Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63 
03/28/1941 Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To the Lighthouse), dies 
03/28/1942 Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67

03/28/1942 Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies 
03/28/1943 Sergej V Rachmaninoff, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69 
03/28/1944 Chayyim Most, Rabbi/Maggid of Kovono, killed by nazis 
03/28/1944 Stephen Leacock, dies 
03/28/1947 Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer, dies at 57 
03/28/1953 James Francis Thorpe, decathelete (Olympic-gold-12), dies at 64 
03/28/1954 Francis B Young, British physician/writer (In South Africa), dies 
03/28/1958 Chuck Klein, Phila Phillie HR hitter, dies at 53 
03/28/1959 W C Handy, jazz star, dies at 85 
03/28/1960 Ian Keith, US actor (Ramses I-10 Commandments), dies at 61 
03/28/1963 Alec A Templeton, composer/pianist (Alec Templeton Time), dies at 52

03/28/1965 VAA Mary, English princess, dies at 67 
03/28/1969 Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th pres/gen (WW 2), dies in Washington at 78 
03/28/1971 Felix Wolfes, composer, dies at 78 
03/28/1973 Hakuun Yasutani, Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies 
03/28/1974 Dorothy Fields, US singer (Way you Look Tonight), dies at 68 
03/28/1974 Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82 
03/28/1975 Renzo Massarani, composer, dies at 77 
03/28/1979 Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80 
03/28/1980 Dick Haymes, actor (Real Life, Betrayal), dies 
03/28/1980 Jesse Owens, (Oly-gold-36), dies at the age of 66, in Tucson Arizona

03/28/1983 Ank [Anna M] van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy), dies 
03/28/1983 Martinus A Jansen, bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies 
03/28/1984 Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead 
03/28/1985 Marc Chagall, French painter, dies at 97 
03/28/1985 Nand Baert, Belgian radio/tv-host, dies at 53 
03/28/1986 Victor J Lopez, actor (Chuey-Man From Atlantis), dies at 39 
03/28/1986 Virginia Gilmore, actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies 
03/28/1987 Maria Augusta Trapp, singer (Trapp Family Singers), dies at 82 
03/28/1987 Patrick Troughton, actor (Dr Who-Dr Who), dies at 56 
03/28/1990 Helene Fortescu Reynolds, actress (Bermuda Mystery, Moontide), dies 
03/28/1991 Carlos Montalban, actor (Bananas), dies 
03/28/1992 Wendell Mayes, writer, dies 
03/28/1994 Albert Goldman, US biographer (Lives of John Lennon), dies at 66 
03/28/1994 EugŠne Ionesco, playwright (Le‡on, Le roi se meurt), dies at about 8

 
 
Significant Events:  
 
03/28/1535 Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed 
03/28/1556 Origin of Fasli Era (India) 
03/28/1774 Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts 
03/28/1797 Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine 
03/28/1799 NY State abolished slavery, 1799 
03/28/1802 H W Olbers discovers asteroid #2 Pallas 
03/28/1802 Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid (Pallas) 
03/28/1804 Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804 
03/28/1834 Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US 
03/28/1849 Dutch princess Marianne & Prince Albert of Prussia separate 
03/28/1862 Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia 
03/28/1871 SF Art Assn holds open reception at 430 Pine 
03/28/1885 US Salvation Army officially organized 
03/28/1891 1st world weightlifting championship held 
03/28/1896 The opera 'Andrea Chenier' is produced (Milan) 
03/28/1900 A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #454 Mathesis 
03/28/1902 27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville, Tennessee (state record) 
03/28/1905 Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used 
03/28/1910 1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre

03/28/1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities 
03/28/1920 Thomas Masaryk becomes president of Czechoslovakia 
03/28/1922 Toronto St Pats beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup 
03/28/1924 WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions 
03/28/1929 Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador 
03/28/1930 Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara 
03/28/1933 German Reichstage confers dictatorial powers to Adolph Hitler 
03/28/1935 Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket 
03/28/1939 Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down 
03/28/1939 Renaissance Big 5 win 1st pro basketball championship 
03/28/1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco 
03/28/1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan 
03/28/1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire 
03/28/1942 RAF bombs Lbeck 
03/28/1942 Raid on lock/dock St Nazaire 
03/28/1944 Astrid Lindgren begins writing Pippi Longstocking 
03/28/1944 NBA rookie of the year in 1966, Rick Barry 
03/28/1944 Utah defeated Dartmouth 42-40 to win the NCAA basketball title 
03/28/1945 Last V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London 
03/28/1950 NYC college becomes 1st to win NCAA & Natl Inv Basketball in same ye

03/28/1953 'Stock exchanges open, dikes closed' raises Ÿ5,200,000 
03/28/1953 KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting 
03/28/1954 WKAQ TV channel 2 in San Juan, PR (TM) begins broadcasting 
03/28/1957 1st National Curling Championship held 
03/28/1960 Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African & 1st Filipino cardin

03/28/1960 Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland) 
03/28/1962 Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees 
03/28/1963 AFL's NY Titan's become the NY Jets 
03/28/1964 1st pirate radio station near England (Radio Caroline) 
03/28/1964 Earthquake strikes Alaska 
03/28/1968 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3049 
03/28/1969 Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal 
03/28/1970 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey) 
03/28/1973 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3071 Nesterov 
03/28/1974 Rock group Raspberries breakup 
03/28/1975 Wash Caps win 1st game on road after 37 straight road loses also 
03/28/1977 49th Academy Awards 
03/28/1977 Morarji Desai forms govt in India 
03/28/1977 Retiring coach Al McGuire's Marquette basketball team wins NCAA 
03/28/1979 British government of Callaghan falls 
03/28/1979 Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pa (no deaths) 
03/28/1981 Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 m 40.18 sec) 
03/28/1981 Sch”nbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:21.70) 
03/28/1981 Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (36.91 secs) 
03/28/1982 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2873 Binzel 
03/28/1982 JN Duartes christian-democrats win elections in El Salvador 
03/28/1982 Lousiana Tech wond 1st NCAA women's basketball title 
03/28/1985 International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley 
03/28/1985 STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad 
03/28/1986 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India 
03/28/1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway 
03/28/1989 New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a NY court 
03/28/1990 Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 pts in a game

03/28/1990 President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal 
03/28/1991 Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son 
03/28/1993 Conservatives win French parliamentary election 
03/28/1993 Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031) 
03/28/1994 Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 50 killed 
03/28/1994 Italy's right alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election 
  
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