Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 28
March 28: Easter Monday in Western Christianity, (2005)
- 193 - Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman Emperor Pertinax and sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
- 845 - Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, captured Paris and held the city for a huge ransom.
- 1939 - Forces of the Spanish State led by Generalísimo Francisco Franco took Madrid, ending the Spanish Civil War.
- 1964 - Radio Caroline began broadcasting as a pirate radio station from a boat anchored in international waters.
- 1979 - A nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suffered a partial meltdown.