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, 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.

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

• 193 –
  Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1913 –
  Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1930 –
  Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1994 –
  In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
• 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?

• 1806 –
  Thomas Hare, English political scientist (d. 1891)
• 1866 –
  Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
• 1907 –
  Irving “Swifty” Lazar, American talent agent (d. 1993)
• 1912 –
  A. Bertram Chandler Australian author (d. 1984)
• 1924 –
  Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (d. 1992)
• 1969 –
  Brett Ratner, American film director
• 1981 –
  Antonio Rizzo, Italian footballer
• 1991 –
  Amy Bruckner, American actress
• 1992 –
  Liam Hess, British actor
• 1992 –
  Sergi Gómez, Spanish footballer

Who died on March 28?

• 1677 –
  Václav Hollar, Czech-born etcher (b. 1607)
• 1866 –
  Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
• 1910 –
  David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
• 1942 –
  Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet, death in prison (b. 1910)
• 1947 –
  Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
• 1977 –
  Eric Shipton, British explorer and mountaineer (b. 1907)
• 1980 –
  Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer and actor (b. 1918)
• 1987 –
  Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)
• 1994 –
  Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born French playwright (b. 1909)
• 2006 –
  Kevin Charles “Pro” Hart, Australian artist (b. 1928)