28 Mairch

The 28t o Mairch is the 87t day o the year (88t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 278 days ti come.

• 193 – Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinatit bi Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an unction tae Didius Julianus.
• 364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appynts his brither Flavius Valens co-emperor.
• 1204 – The Siege o Château Gaillard ends in a French victory ower King John o Ingland, who loses control o Normandy tae King Philip II Augustus.
• 1854 – Crimean War: Fraunce an Breetain declare war on Roushie.
• 1930 – Constantinople an Angora chynge thair names tae Istanbul an Ankara.
• 1939 – Spaingie Ceevil War: Francisco Franco conquers Madrid.
• 1970 – Gediz yirdquauk: A 7.2 magnitude yirdquauk strikes wastren Turkey at aboot 23:05 local time, killed 1,086 an injured 1,260.
• 1979 – In the Unitit Kinrick, a vote a Naw Confidence is passed on the Labour govrenment o James Callaghan.
• 1979 – A nuclear accident occurs at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvanie, Unitit States.
• 2005 – A major yirdquauk strikes the Indonesian isle o Sumatra.
• 2006 – Mass protests occur agin Fraunce's First Contract Employment Law.
• 2017 – The Scots Pairlament, bi a majority o 69 tae 59, approves plans for a seicont referendum on Scots unthirldom.

• 1592 – John Amos Comenius, Moravian philosopher an theologian (d. 1670)
• 1750 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (d. 1816)
• 1862 – Aristide Briand, Prime meenister o Fraunce (d. 1932)
• 1868 – Maxim Gorky, Roushie writer (d. 1936)
• 1892 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian pheesiologist (d. 1968)
• 1897 – Sepp Herberger, German fitbawer an manager (d. 1977)
• 1928 – Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathemateecian (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, Pols-American poleetical scientist an diplomat (d. 2017)
• 1936 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian-Spainyie jurnalist an author, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
• 1942 – Neil Kinnock, Welsh politeecian
• 1945 – Rodrigo Duterte, Preses o the Philippines
• 1946 – Alejandro Toledo, umwhile Preses o Peru
• 1948 – Dianne Wiest, American actress
• 1949 – Frank Kopel, Scots fitbawer (d. 2014)
• 1949 – Michael W. Young, American biologist, 2017 jynt Nobel laureate
• 1955 – Reba McEntire, American sangster, sangwriter an actress
• 1959 – Laura Chinchilla, umwhile Preses o Costa Rica
• 1970 – Vince Vaughn, American actor
• 1972 – Nick Frost, Inglis actor
• 1976 – Stephen Gethins, Scots politeecian
• 1985 – Stanislas Wawrinka, Swiss tennis player
• 1986 – Lady Gaga, American sangster-sangwriter, producer, an actress
• 1989 – David Goodwillie, Scots fitbawer
• 1996 – Benjamin Pavard, French fitbawer

• 193 – Pertinax, Roman emperor (b. 126)
• 1285 – Pape Martin IV (b. 1220)
• 1584 – Ivan the Terrible, Tsar o Roushie (b. 1530)
• 1635 – Patrick Forbes, Scots kirkman (b. 1564)
• 1801 – Ralph Abercromby, Scots sodger an politeecian (b. 1734)
• 1881 – Modest Mussorgsky, Roushie componer (b. 1839)
• 1941 – Virginia Woolf, Inglis writer (b. 1882)
• 1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Roushie componer (b. 1873)
• 1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general an politeecian, 34t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1890)
• 1985 – Marc Chagall, Roushie-French airtist (b. 1887)
• 1987 – Patrick Troughton, Inglis actor (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Peter Ustinov, Inglis actor (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Richard Griffiths, Inglis actor (b. 1947)
• 2018 – Ron Mailer, Scots fitbawer (b. 1932)

• Serfs' Emancipation Day (Tibet)
• Teachers' Day (Czech Republic an Slovakie)

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