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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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Teachers' Day in the Czech Republic; | refimprove |
| 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. | De Anza: needs more footnotes; Presidio: refimprove section |
| 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. | needs more footnotes |
| 1920 – An outbreak of 37 tornadoes across the Midwestern and Southern United States left more than 380 people dead. | unreferenced section (CN tags) |
| 1959 – After the Dalai Lama fled Tibet, China installed the Panchen Lama as the head of the government. | lead too short, neutrality issues |
| 1964 – Radio Caroline began broadcasting as a pirate radio station from a boat anchored in international waters. | refimprove sections |
| 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. | lots of CN tags |
| 2005 – The Nias–Simeulue earthquake hit the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, killing approximately 1,300 people. | needs more footnotes |
Eligible
- 1802 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever identified.
- 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 (pictured) became the first seaplane to take off from water under its own power.
- 1930 – Turkey changed the name of its largest city Constantinople to Istanbul.
- 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 during the "Winter of Discontent".
- 1999 – Serbian police and special forces killed at least 89 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica, in the Drenica region of central Kosovo.
- 2015 – After Al-Shabaab militants captured a hotel in Mogadishu the previous day, Somali Armed Forces stormed the premises, recaptured it, and killed all the attackers.
- Born/died this day: James Brudenell (d. 1868) · Ernst Lindemann (b. 1894) · Lady Gaga (b. 1986)
Notes
- 4 Vesta appears on March 29, so 2 Pallas should not appear in the same year
- April 2, 2006 tornado outbreak appears on April 2 and Super Outbreak (1974) appears on April 3 and 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak appears on April 5, so 1920 outbreak should not appear in the same year
March 28: Serfs Emancipation Day in Tibet
- 193 – Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax and sold the Imperial office in an auction to Didius Julianus.
- 1814 – War of 1812: Off the coast of Valparaíso, Chile, two Royal Navy ships easily captured two American ones.
- 1933 – After an on-board fire that may have been the first incident of airliner sabotage, the Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool broke apart in mid-air, killing fifteen people.
- 1942 – Second World War: In occupied France, British naval forces disabled the port of Saint-Nazaire (HMS Campbeltown pictured).
- 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 regiment, killing one soldier and injuring five.
Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova (b. 1743) · Terence MacSwiney (b. 1879) · Sybil Irving (d. 1973)