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 87th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 278 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 15, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,052,000 minutes 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 ‘octacontaheptagon’ day.
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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 326 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 4,480 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 28 Historical Events
- 37 –Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
- 193 –Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
- 845 –Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
- 1794 –Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
- 1920 –Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
- 1939 –Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid.
- 1942 –World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
- 1969 –Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
- 1978 –The US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
- 2003 –In a friendly fire incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard’s 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.
Who were born on March 28?
- 1522 –Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557)
- 1811 –Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, Bohemian-born American bishop and Roman Catholic saint (d. 1860)
- 1899 –Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977)
- 1899 –Harold B. Lee, American religious figure (d. 1973)
- 1910 –Jimmie Dodd, American actor (d. 1964)
- 1923 –Thad Jones, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1986)
- 1928 –Alexander Grothendieck, German mathematician
- 1960 –Chris Barrie, British actor
- 1971 –Christianne Meneses Jacobs, Nicaraguan-born American writer and educator
- 1975 –Richard Kelly, American film director
Who died on March 28?
- 1910 –Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838)
- 1965 –Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (b. 1885)
- 1969 –Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
- 1974 –Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1905)
- 1980 –Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer and actor (b. 1918)
- 1985 –Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
- 1994 –Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born French playwright (b. 1909)
- 2003 –Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (b. 1923)
- 2005 –Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (b. 1916)
- 2006 –Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, Irish musician (b. 1922)
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