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
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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