On this day: March 28th

On this day: March 28th

There are many and several events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: On this day: March 28th

On this day: March 28th

On this day: March 28th

Events On this day: March 28th

  • 845: Paris is sacked by Viking raiders.
  • 1910: First seaplane takes off from a water runway.
  • 1963: Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “The Birds” is released. The film about a swarm of birds wreaking havoc in Bodega Bay, California has become a classic of the horror movie genre.
  • 1969: Greek poet Giorgos Seferis speaks out against the military junta. The Nobel Prize laureate issued his now famous statement against Greece’s repressive right-wing Regime of the Colonels on the BBC World Service.
  • 1979: A radiation leak occurs at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US.
  • 1990: President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.

Birthdays on this day: March 28th

  • 1483: Raphael (Italian painter, architect)
  • 1936: Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian/Spanish journalist, author, Nobel Prize laureate)
  • 1946: Alejandro Toledo (Peruvian politician, 48th President of Peru)
  • 1955: Reba McEntire (Singer and Actress)
  • 1970: Vince Vaughn (Actor)
  • 1975: Kate Gosselin (Reality show Jon and Kate plus 8)
  • 1981: Julia Stiles (Actress)
  • 1986: Lady Gaga (Singer)

Deaths on this day: March 28th

  • 1584: Ivan the Terrible (Russian Tsar)
  • 1941: Virginia Woolf (English author, critic)
  • 1943: Sergei Rachmaninoff (Russian pianist, composer, and conductor)
  • 1969: Dwight D. Eisenhower (American general, politician, 34th President of the United States)
  • 2004: Peter Ustinov (English actor, director, producer, screenwriter)

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