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| Birthday March 28, 1472 Fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter |
| Birthday March 28, 1862 Aristide Briand, French premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926) |
| Birthday March 28, 1868 Aleksey Peshikov, (pen name Maksim Gorky), Russia |
| Birthday March 28, 1895 Spencer W. Kimball, 12th prophet of Mormon church |
| Birthday March 28, 1903 Rudolf Serkin, pianist |
| Birthday March 28, 1914 Edmund S. Muskie, (D), Sec of State, Maine sen |
| Birthday March 28, 1922 Dirk Bogarde, Actor |
| Birthday March 28, 1924 Freddie Bartholomew, Actor |
| Birthday March 28, 1928 Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor |
| Birthday March 28, 1933 Sen Frank Murkowski, (R-Alaska) |
| Birthday March 28, 1936 Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist, is born |
| Birthday March 28, 1944 Ken Howard, Actor |
| Birthday March 28, 1944 Rick Barry, NBA star (Golden State Warriors) |
| Birthday March 28, 1955 Reba McEntire, Country singer |
| History March 28, 0193 Roman Emperor Pertinax assassinated |
| History March 28, 1592 Jan Amos Komensky - Moravian educational reformer |
| History March 28, 1774 British Parliament adopts the Coercive Acts |
| History March 28, 1776 De Anza founds San Francisco |
| History March 28, 1797 Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine |
| History March 28, 1802 Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid - later called Pallas |
| History March 28, 1807 Heinrich Olbers discovers 4th asteroid (Vesta) |
| History March 28, 1814 Funeral held for the man behind the guillotine |
| History March 28, 1834 Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US |
| History March 28, 1834 Congress censures Jackson |
| History March 28, 1862 Battle of Glorieta Pass |
| History March 28, 1871 SF Art Assn holds open reception at 430 Pine |
| History March 28, 1915 First American citizen killed during WWI |
| History March 28, 1920 Fairbanks and Pickford marry |
| History March 28, 1930 Constantinople & Angora change to Istanbul & Ankara |
| History March 28, 1939 Spanish Civil War ends |
| History March 28, 1939 Spanish Civil War ends - Madrid fell to Francisco Franco |
| History March 28, 1941 Land cleared for Ford's Willow Run plant |
| History March 28, 1941 Novelist & critic Virginia Woolf dies |
| History March 28, 1941 Cunningham leads fateful British strike at Italians |
| History March 28, 1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire |
| History March 28, 1943 Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff dies |
| History March 28, 1946 Acheson-Lilienthal Report released |
| History March 28, 1953 Athlete Jim Thorpe dies |
| History March 28, 1958 W.C. Handy—the Father of the Blues—dies |
| History March 28, 1961 Diem's popular support questioned |
| History March 28, 1967 American pacifists arrive in Haiphong |
| History March 28, 1969 Eisenhower dies |
| History March 28, 1969 Eisenhower the 34th pres dies in Washington at 78 |
| History March 28, 1979 Nuclear accident at 3 Mile Is - Middletown - Pa |
| History March 28, 1979 Reactor overheats at Three Mile Island |
| History March 28, 1984 Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis |
| History March 28, 2006 Duke lacrosse team suspended following sexual assault allegations |