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 87^th 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, 484,200 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 ‘octacontaheptagon’ 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 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.

March 28 Historical Events

• 1776 –
  Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
• 1860 –
  First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
• 1910 –
  Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
• 1913 –
  Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1979 –
  The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan’s government, precipitating a general election.
• 1994 –
  BBC Radio 5 is closed and replaced with a new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live.
• 1994 –
  In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
• 1999 –
  Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre.
• 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.
• 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?

• 1866 –
  Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
• 1892 –
  Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• 1899 –
  August “Gussie” Anheuser Busch, Jr., American brewer and baseball executive (d. 1989)
• 1903 –
  Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
• 1907 –
  Irving “Swifty” Lazar, American talent agent (d. 1993)
• 1911 –
  John Langshaw Austin, British language philosopher (d. 1960)
• 1914 –
  Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (d. 1997)
• 1945 –
  Count Björn Hamilton, Swedish politician
• 1971 –
  Wesley Person, American basketball player
• 1980 –
  Stiliani Pilatou, Greek long jumper

Who died on March 28?

• 1677 –
  Václav Hollar, Czech-born etcher (b. 1607)
• 1687 –
  Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
• 1941 –
  Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877)
• 1944 –
  Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist (b. 1869)
• 1947 –
  Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
• 1969 –
  Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi (b. 1885)
• 1985 –
  Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
• 1994 –
  Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born French playwright (b. 1909)
• 2004 –
  Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)
• 2006 –
  Kevin Charles “Pro” Hart, Australian artist (b. 1928)