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Events from History on March 28

1535 : Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed
1556 : Karel V's son Philip II crowned king of Spain
1556 : Origin of Fasli Era (India)
1738 : English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)
1774 : Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts
1794 : Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
1796 : Bethel African Methodist Church of Phila is 1st US-African church
1797 : Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
1799 : NY State abolished slavery
1804 : Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804
1834 : Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
1837 : Felix Mendelssohn marries C‚cile Jeanrenaud
1844 : Jos‚ Zorilla's "Don Juan Tenorio," premieres in Madrid
1845 : Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US
1849 : Dutch princess Marianne & Prince Albert of Prussia separate
1854 : During the Crimean War, Britain & France declare war on Russia
1859 : 1st performance of John Brahms' 1st Serenade for orchestra
1862 : Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia
1866 : 1st ambulance goes into service
1871 : SF Art Assn holds open reception at 430 Pine
1881 : Greatest Show On Earth was formed by PT Barnum & James A Bailey
1885 : US Salvation Army officially organized
1891 : 1st world weightlifting championship held
1896 : The opera "Andrea Chenier" is produced (Milan)
1902 : 27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville, Tennessee (state record)
1905 : Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used
1910 : 1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre)
1917 : Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities
1917 : Puccini's "La Rondine," premieres in Monte Carlo
1920 : Actor Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford
1920 : Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia
1922 : (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1922 : 1st microfilm device introduced
1924 : WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions
1927 : Majestic Theater opens at 245 W 44th St NYC
1929 : Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador
1930 : 1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston)
1930 : Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara
1933 : German Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler
1935 : Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket
1939 : Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down
1939 : Philip Barry's "Philadelphia Story," premieres in NYC
1939 : Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco
1941 : Sea battle at Cape Matapan: Brit fleet under Cunningham defeats Italy
1942 : -29] 234 RAF bombers attack Lbeck
1942 : 4th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38
1942 : British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
1942 : Raid on lock/dock St Nazaire
1944 : 6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40
1944 : Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle & begins writing Pippi Longstocking
1945 : Last German V-2 (buzz bomb) attack on London
1948 : 2nd Tony Awards: Mister Roberts win
1950 : 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: CCNY beats Bradley 71-68
1950 : NYC college becomes 1st to win NCAA & Natl Inv Basketball in same year
1952 : US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1952 : US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1953 : "New Faces (of 1952)" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 365 perfs
1953 : "Stock exchanges open, dikes closed" raises Ÿ5,200,000
1953 : 7th Tony Awards: Crucible & Wonderful Town win
1953 : KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 : US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1953 : US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1954 : 8th Tony Awards: Teahouse of the August Moon & Kismet win
1954 : WKAQ TV channel 2 in San Juan, PR (TM) begins broadcasting
1957 : 1st National Curling Championship held
1959 : 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's govt & installs
1959 : Panchen Lama
1960 : Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African & 1st Filipino cardinal
1960 : Scotch factory explodes burying 20 fire fighters (Glasgow Scotland)
1962 : Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees
1963 : AFL's NY Titan's become the NY Jets
1964 : 1st pirate radio station near England (Radio Caroline)
1964 : 9.2 earthquake shakes Prince William Sound, Alaska
1967 : "Sherry!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 65 performances
1967 : UN Sect General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam
1969 : Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal
1970 : 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)
1971 : 25th Tony Awards: Sleuth & Company win
1972 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1974 : Rock group Raspberries breakup
1975 : Wash Caps win 1st game on road after 37 straight road loses also
1977 : 39th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Marquette beats NC 67-59
1977 : 49th Academy Awards - "Rocky," Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win
1977 : Morarji Desai forms govt in India
1979 : British government of Callaghan falls
1979 : Lazarus & Vosburgh's "Day in Hollywood & night in Ukraine," premieres
1979 : Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pa (no deaths)
1981 : Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 m 40.18 sec)
1981 : France performs nuclear test
1981 : Gabi Sch”nbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:21.70)
1981 : Viv Richards scores century in the 1st Test at his home Antigua
1981 : Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (36.91 secs)
1982 : 12th Easter Seal Telethon raises $19,500,000
1982 : 1st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: LA Tech beats Cheney 76-62
1982 : JN Duartes christian-democrats win elections in El Salvador
1985 : International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley
1985 : Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues," premieres in NYC
1985 : STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 : Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India
1986 : John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1987 : Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway
1989 : New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a NY court
1990 : Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 pts in a game
1990 : President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal
1991 : Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son
1992 : 6th American Comedy Award: Cathy Ladman, Judy Watkins, Billy Crystal
1992 : Ann Transon runs female world record 50k (3:35:31)
1992 : PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel
1993 : 13th Golden Raspberry Awards: Shining Through wins
1993 : Conservatives win French parliamentary election
1993 : Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031)
1994 : Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed
1994 : Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election
1995 : Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovette split-up
1995 : World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge
1996 : "7 Guitars" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1996 : "Seven Guitars," opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1996 : Katie Beam, 17, of Okla, crowned 35th Miss Teenage America
1997 : "City" soap opera's final episode on ABC-TV
1999 : 18th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at San Jose

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