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28 March, 2006

At least 1 million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the governments proposed First Employment Contract law.

28 March, 2005

The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1960.

28 March, 2003

In a "friendly fire" incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guards 190th Fighter Squadron attacked British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.

28 March, 2000

A Murray County, Georgia, school bus gets hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die from this accident).

28 March, 1994

In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.

28 March, 1990

President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.

28 March, 1979

In Pennsylvania, a pump in the reactor cooling system fails in the Three Mile Island accident, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown.

28 March, 1979

British Prime Minister James Callaghan, is defeated by one vote in a Motion of No Confidence. This results in Parliament being dissolved in order to make way for a forthcoming General Election.

28 March, 1978

US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.

28 March, 1969

Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.

28 March, 1946

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

28 March, 1942

World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.

28 March, 1941

World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan - In the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian battleships and two destroyers.

28 March, 1940

The exhibition center to host the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair starts being built.

28 March, 1939

Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid.

28 March, 1930

Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.

28 March, 1920

Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.

28 March, 1913

Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

28 March, 1910

Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.

28 March, 1871

The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.

28 March, 1862

American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass - In New Mexico, Union forces succeed in stopping the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.

28 March, 1860

First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.

28 March, 1854

Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.

28 March, 1834

The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the Second Bank of the United States.

28 March, 1809

Peninsular War: In the Battle of Medelin France defeats Spain.

28 March, 1802

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.

28 March, 1795

Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.

28 March, 1794

Allies under the prince of Coburg defeated French forces at Le Cateau.

28 March, 1776

Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.

28 March, 845

Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.

28 March, 364

Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.

28 March, 193

Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.

28 March, 37

Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.

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