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A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
March 28
1774 | Britain passes the Coercive Act against rebellious Massachusetts. | |
1854 | Britain and France declare war on Russia. | |
1864 | A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in Charleston, Illinois. Five are killed and twenty wounded. | |
1885 | The Salvation Army is officially organized in the United States. | |
1908 | Automobile owners lobby Congress in support of a bill that calls for vehicle licensing and federal registration. | |
1910 | The first seaplane takes off from water at Martinques, France. | |
1917 | The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded, Great Britain’s first official service women. | |
1921 | President Warren Harding names William Howard Taft as chief justice of the United States. | |
1930 | Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara respectively. | |
1933 | Nazis order a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools. | |
1939 | The Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to Francisco Franco. | |
1941 | The Italian fleet is routed by the British at the Battle of Battle of Cape Matapan | |
1941 | English novelist Virginia Woolf throws herself into the River Ouse near her home in Sussex. Her body is never found. | |
1942 | A British ship, the HMS Capbeltown, a Lend-Lease American destroyer, which was specifically rammed into a German occupied dry-dock in France, explodes, knocking the area out of action for the German battleship Tirpitz. | |
1945 | Germany launches the last of its V-2 rockets against England. | |
1946 | Juan Peron is elected President of Argentina. He will hold the office for six years. | |
1962 | The U.S. Air Force announces research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and satellites. | |
1969 | Dwight D. Eisenhower dies at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, D.C. | |
1979 | A major accident occurs at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear power plant | |
1986 | The U.S. Senate passes $100 million aid package for the Nicaraguan contras. | |
1990 | Jesse Owens receives the Congressional Gold Medal from President George Bush. | |
1999 | An American Stealth F117 Nighthawk is shot down over northern Yugoslavia during NATO air strikes. | |
Born on March 28 | ||
1652 | Samuel Sewall, British colonial merchant and one of the Salem witch trial judges. | |
1818 | Wade Hampton, Confederate general in the American Civil War. | |
1862 | Aristide Briand, premier of France (1909-22). | |
1868 | Maxim Gorky, Russian short story writer and novelist. | |
1895 | James McCudden, the first RAF pilot to receive the Victoria Cross. | |
1909 | Nelson Algren, novelist (The Man with the Golden Arm, A Walk on the Wild Side). | |
1929 | Frederick Exley, American novelist (A Fan’s Notes). | |
1930 | Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, helped confirm the existence of quarks. | |
1936 | Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes). |
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March 28 is the birthday of Jan Amos Komensky (or John Comenius; 1592-1670), a noted educational reformer and theologian in the former Czechoslovakia. Komensky was the first person to write an illustrated textbook for children, used for teaching Latin words; he was also a proponent of compulsory education. It has been traditional for children to honor him on Teachers’ Day, or Komensky Day, by bringing flowers and gifts to their teachers. The day is also observed with lectures, music, and educational activities. More… Discuss
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Maxim Gorky was the pseudonym of Aleksey Maximovich Pyeshkov, a Russian writer considered the father of Soviet literature and the founder of the doctrine of socialist realism. Gorky’s works include Mother, which became the prototype of the revolutionary novel, and his final, unfinished work—often considered his masterpiece—The Life of Klim Samgin, a panoramic, four-volume novel of Russian social conditions from 1880 to 1917. Who carried Gorky’s casket at his funeral? More… Discuss
Wyeth is an American painter whose work has been enormously popular and critically acclaimed since his first one-man show in 1937. His principal subjects are the people of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Cushing, Maine, portrayed in a meticulous naturalistic style. The best-known of Wyeth’s paintings, Christina’s World (1948), hangs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. What are his “Helga” pictures, and why did they generate a considerable amount of media buzz? More… Discuss
Definition: | (noun) Insincere or grossly sentimental pathos. |
Synonyms: | mawkishness |
Usage: | The opera’s conclusion was emotional to the point of bathos, with the soprano dying heroically to save her lover. Discuss. |
Unrest, violence mars Arab Spring aftermath
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Silicon Valley firm wins bias case http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32094337
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