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
- 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.
- 1776 –Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
- 1809 –Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.
- 1854 –Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
- 1913 –Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1920 –Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
- 1968 –Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship.
- 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.
- 1990 –President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
Who were born on March 28?
- 1592 –John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop (d. 1670)
- 1892 –Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
- 1894 –Ernst Lindemann, German naval officer (d. 1941)
- 1928 –Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born American political scientist and geostrategist
- 1930 –Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer
- 1942 –Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
- 1946 –Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru
- 1968 –Max Perlich, American actor
- 1973 –Eddie Fatu, Samoan professional wrestler (d. 2009)
- 1989 –Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
Who died on March 28?
- 1866 –Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
- 1874 –Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)
- 1942 –Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet, death in prison (b. 1910)
- 1947 –Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
- 1953 –Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
- 1965 –Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
- 1969 –Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi (b. 1885)
- 1976 –Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
- 1986 –Virginia Gilmore. American actress (b. 1919)
- 1987 –Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)
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