Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 28
This is a list of selected March 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 845 – According to a legendary Norse saga, Viking raiders under Ragnar Lodbrok captured Paris and held the city for a huge ransom. | more footnotes |
| 1776 – Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza selected the site for the Presidio of San Francisco, the northernmost outpost of the Spanish Empire in the New World. | more footnotes |
| 1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceased to exist and became part of the Russian Empire. | more footnotes |
| 1959 – After the Dalai Lama fled Tibet, China installed the Panchen Lama as the head of the government. | lead too short |
| 1964 – Radio Caroline began broadcasting as a pirate radio station from a boat anchored in international waters. | lead too long, refimprove sections |
| 2005 – The Nias earthquake hit the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, killing approximately 1,300 people. | more footnotes |
Eligible
- 1862 – American Civil War: An invasion of the New Mexico Territory by the Confederate States Army was halted at the Battle of Glorieta Pass.
- 1910 – Near Martigues, France, French aviator Henri Fabre's Fabre Hydravion became the first seaplane to take off from water under its own power.
- 1942 – Second World War: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully disabled the key port of Saint-Nazaire.
- 1979 – British Prime Minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a motion of no confidence by the House of Commons after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes by trade unions during the "Winter of Discontent".
- 1979 – A partial core meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, resulted in the release of an estimated 43,000 curies (1.59 PBq) of radioactive krypton to the environment.
Notes
March 28: Maundy Thursday (Western Christianity, 2013); Teachers' Day in the Czech Republic; Serfs Emancipation Day in Tibet
- 193 – Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman Emperor Pertinax and sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
- 1802 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (pictured) discovered 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
- 1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool broke apart in mid-air due to an on-board fire that may have been the first incident of airliner sabotage.
- 1999 – Serbian police and special forces killed at least 89 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica, in the Drenica region of central Kosovo.
- 2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In a friendly fire incident, two members of the United States Air Force attacked the United Kingdom's Blues and Royals of the Household Cavalry, killing one and injuring five British soldiers.