What are the important events that happened on March 28? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 28: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 28 is the 88th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 278 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 15, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 475,440 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘octacontaoctagon’ day.
Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 307 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,115 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 28 Historical Events
- 1795 –Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
- 1854 –Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
- 1860 –First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass – in New Mexico, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
- 1889 –The Yngsjö murder occurs in Yngsjö, Sweden and Anna Månsdotter is arrested along with her son.
- 1910 –Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
- 1969 –The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal’s history with 10,000 trade unionists, leftist activists, CEGEP students, and even some McGill students at McGill’s Roddick Gates. This led to the majority of the protesters getting arrested.
- 1979 –Operators of Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open following an unexpected shutdown. As a result, enough coolant drains out of the system to allow the core to overheat and partially melt down.
- 2000 –Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train.
- 2005 –The 2005 Sumatra earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965.
Who were born on March 28?
- 1725 –Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)
- 1806 –Thomas Hare, English political scientist (d. 1891)
- 1905 –Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (d. 1996)
- 1934 –Lester Brown, American environmentalist
- 1937 –Liz Trotta, American journalist
- 1940 –Kevin Loughery, American basketball coach
- 1953 –Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian politician (d. 1993)
- 1967 –John Ziegler, American talk-show host
- 1972 –Eby J. Jose, Indian journalist
- 1975 –Shanna Moakler, American beauty queen and TV personality
Who died on March 28?
- 1072 –Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
- 1566 –Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486)
- 1794 –Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
- 1870 –George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
- 1884 –Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, son of Queen Victoria (b. 1853)
- 1910 –Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838)
- 1977 –Eric Shipton, British explorer and mountaineer (b. 1907)
- 1979 –Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
- 1982 –William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
- 2011 –Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (b. 1917)
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