Page 5: Historical Events In March - 28

1920  Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford on this day in history.   

1920  On March - 28 thomas Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia   

1921  On March - 28 the birth of Sir Dirk Bogarde, British actor   

1922  The first microfilm device introduced - where is the CIA? on March - 28.   

1922  On March - 28 1st microfilm device introduced   

1924  On this day in history wGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions   

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

1927  On this day in history karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57   

1928  Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63 on March - 28.   

1929  On March - 28 democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador   

1930  Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara on this day in history.   

1930  1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston) on this day in history.   

1933  German Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler on March - 28.   

1935  Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket on March - 28.   

1939  Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down on March - 28.   

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

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

1941  On this day in history sea battle at Cape Matapan: Brit fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy   

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

1941  On this day in history sea battle at Cape Matapan: British fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy   

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  -29] 234 RAF bombers attack Lubeck on March - 28.   

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

1943  Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69 on March - 28.   

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

1944  On this day in history chayyim Most, Rabbi/Maggid of Kovono, killed by nazis   

1945  Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London on March - 28.   

1945  The last V2 German rocket of World War II falls on London on March - 28.   

1945  On March - 28 last German V-2 (buzz bomb) attack on London   

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

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

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

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

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1468  On March - 28 birth of charles I, Duke of Savoy   

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

1472  On March - 28 birth of fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)   

1483  Raphael, Urbino Italy, painter (School of Athens) was born on March - 28.   

1515  Theresa of Avila/Teresa de Jesus, Spanish mystic writer/saint was born on March - 28.   

1522  On this day in history birth of albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557)   

1569  On this day in history birth of ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622)   

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

0193  On March - 28 death of publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated   

0593  On March - 28 guntram, French king in Burgundy, dies at about 67   

1072  On this day in history death of ordulf, Duke of Saxony   

1134  Stefanus Harding, 3rd abbott of Côteaux/saint, dies on March - 28.   

1239  Death of Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180) on March - 28.   

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 March - 28.   

1566  On March - 28 siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat, dies at 79