Page 5: Historical Events In March - 28

1920  On March - 28 actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford   

1920  Thomas Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia on March - 28.   

1921  The birth of Sir Dirk Bogarde, British actor on this day in history.   

1922  The first microfilm device introduced - where is the CIA? on this day in history.   

1922  On this day in history 1st microfilm device introduced   

1924  WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions on this day in history.   

1927  Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St NYC on March - 28.   

1927  Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57 on March - 28.   

1928  On this day in history giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63   

1929  Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador on March - 28.   

1930  On March - 28 constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara   

1930  1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston) on March - 28.   

1933  German Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler on this day in history.   

1935  On this day in history goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket   

1939  On this day in history dutch hunter shoots English bombers down   

1940  Construction begins of the exhibition center to host the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair on March - 28.   

1941  Sea battle at Cape Matapan British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy on March - 28.   

1941  Sea battle at Cape Matapan: Brit fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy on this day in history.   

1941  Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To Lighthouse), suicide 59 on this day in history.   

1941  Sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy on March - 28.   

1942  On March - 28 234 RAF bombers attack Lübeck   

1942  On March - 28 british naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire   

1942  On this day in history -29] 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck   

1942  On this day in history herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67   

1943  On March - 28 sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69   

1944  On this day in history 6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40   

1944  Chayyim Most, Rabbi/Maggid of Kovono, killed by nazis on this day in history.   

1945  On March - 28 last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London   

1945  On this day in history the last V2 German rocket of World War II falls on London   

1945  Last German V-2 (buzz bomb) attack on London on this day in history.   

1946  Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power on March - 28.   

1947  On this day in history rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer, dies at 57   

1948  On this day in history 2nd Tony Awards Mister Roberts win   

1948  2nd Tony Awards: Mister Roberts win on March - 28.   

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1468  On this day in history birth of charles I, Duke of Savoy   

1472  On this day in history birth of fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter   

1472  Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517) was born on March - 28.   

1483  On this day in history birth of raphael, Urbino Italy, painter (School of Athens)   

1515  On this day in history birth of theresa of Avila/Teresa de Jesus, Spanish mystic writer/saint   

1522  Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557) was born on this day in history.   

1569  Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622) was born on this day in history.   

1592  Jan Amos Komensky, [Comenius] Moravian educational reB03281603 Stephan Otto, composer was born on this day in history.   

0193  Death of Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated on March - 28.   

0593  Guntram, French king in Burgundy, dies at about 67 on March - 28.   

1072  On March - 28 death of ordulf, Duke of Saxony   

1134  Stefanus Harding, 3rd abbott of Côteaux/saint, dies on this day in history.   

1239  On March - 28 death of emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)   

1285  On this day in history martinus IV, [Simon de Brion], Pope (1281-85), dies   

1563  Death of Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488) on this day in history.   

1566  On this day in history siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat, dies at 79