March 28......

March 28 is the 87th (88th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 278 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On America "I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess — and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society." — Edward Abbey

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Christians Against Pluralism "Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country." — Pat Buchanan, Republican presidential candidate and commentator

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

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

● 193 - Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards. Anticipating the American democratic process, Didius Julianus, highest bidder in Praetorian auction, becomes Emperor of Rome.

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

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

● 1535 - Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed

● 1556 - Karel V's son Philip II crowned king of Spain

● 1556 - Origin of Fasli Era (India)

● 1661 - Scottish Parliament passed the Rescissory Act, which repealed the whole of the legislation enacted since 1633. Its effect was to overthrow Presbyterianism and to restore the Anglican episcopacy to Scotland.

● 1738 - English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)

● 1747 - Colonial missionary to the American Indians David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'Oh, how happy it is, to be drawn by desires of a state of perfect holiness.'

● 1774 - Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts

● 1776 - Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.

● 1794 - Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)

● 1794 - Allies under the prince of Coburg defeated French forces at Le Cateau.

● 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.

● 1796 - Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is 1st US-African church

● 1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine

● 1799 - New York State abolished slavery

● 1802 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.

● 1804 - Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804

● 1809 - Peninsular War: In the Battle of Medelin the France defeats Spain.

● 1834 - The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the Second Bank of the United States.

● 1845 - Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US

● 1854 - During the Crimean War, Britain & France declare war on Russia

● 1860 - First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.

● 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass - In New Mexico, Union forces succeed in stopping the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.

● 1862 - Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia

● 1864 - A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in Charleston, IL. Five were killed and twenty were wounded.

● 1865 - Outdoor advertising legislation was enacted in New York. The law banned "painting on stones, rocks and trees."

● 1866 - 1st ambulance goes into service

● 1871 - Paris Commune, over 200,000 people turn out at the City Hall to see the Central Committee of the National Guard abolished by their newly elected officials, members whose names are read to the crowd which acclaims them, making this day a revolutionary festival. The red flag, raised over all public buildings, emblem of the Commune.

● 1871 - France - Commune of Creusot falls.

● 1884 - Cincinnati townspeople, unhappy authorities had not handed out a severe enough punishment to confessed murderer William Berner, show their displeasure by burning down the local courthouse. The state militia was called out to restore order; in the ensuing battle, 42 were killed and 128 injured.

● 1885 - US Salvation Army officially organized

● 1898 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the U.S. to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen. This meant that they could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act.

● 1899 - August Busch, the American businessman who built Anheuser-Busch into the world's largest brewery, was born.

● 1902 - 27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville TN (state record)

● 1904 - Sen. Joseph E. Burton of Kansas convicted of illegally using his influence to prevent the Post Office from issuing a fraud order, and of accepting bribes.

● 1905 - Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used

● 1905 - The U.S. took full control over Dominican revenues.

● 1908 - Automobile owners lobbied the U.S. Congress, supporting a bill that called for vehicle licensing and federal registration.

● 1910 - Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.

● 1911 - Bonnot -- gang bandit -- caught and killed by police after months of joyous bank robbing and other escapades. Many letters had been sent publicizing their actions and taunting the police. The Bonnot Gang was formed by unemployed anarchists and received much enthusiastic response.

● 1911 - In New York, suffragists performed the political play "Pageant of Protest."

● 1913 - Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

● 1915 - Emma Goldman arrested for telling first U.S. audience how to use contraceptives; chooses 15 days in jail over $100 fine. Addressing a mixed audience of six hundred people in New York's popular Sunrise Club, Goldman publicly explained for the first time anywhere in America how to use a contraceptive. When she chose jail, the entire courtroom cheered her. Margaret Anderson of "The Little Review" observed, "Emma Goldman was sent to prison for advocating that women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open."

● 1915 - Switzerland - International Socialist Women's Conference calls for peace, Berne.

● 1915 - Birth of Kurt Aland, New Testament textual scholar. He co-edited the two most definitive modern critical editions of the Greek Scriptures: the United Bible Society's "Greek New Testament" and Eberhard Nestle's "Novum Testamentum Graece."

● 1917 - Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities

● 1917 - During World War I the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was founded.

● 1918 - Two thousand demonstrate against conscription, in Quebec; police are forced to retreat into the police station.

● 1920 - Thomas Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia

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

● 1921 - U.S. President Warren Harding named former president William Howard Taft as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court.

● 1922 - Bradley A. Fiske patented a microfilm reading device.

● 1929 - Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador

● 1930 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.

● 1932 - Madrid - Spanish anarchists begin burning monasteries.

● 1933 - In Germany, the Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.

● 1935 - Robert Goddard launches the world's first successful liquid-fuelled rocket.

● 1936 - Birth of Bill Gaither, contemporary Gospel songwriter and vocal artist. Together with his wife Gloria, he wrote some of the most popular Christian songs of the 1960s-1970s, including "Because He Lives," "The King is Coming," "The Longer I Serve Him" and "Something Beautiful."

● 1938 - In Italy, psychiatrists demonstrated the use of electric-shock therapy for treatment of certain mental illnesses.

● 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid.

● 1939 - Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down

● 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.

● 1941 - Virginia Woolf, 59, author/feminist, ends her life in the River Ouse, Lewes, Sussex, England.

● 1942 - World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.

● 1942 - 234 RAF bombers attack Lübeck

● 1943 - Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died at age 70.

● 1944 - Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle & begins writing Pippi Longstocking

● 1945 - Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London

● 1945 - Germany launched the last of the V-2 rockets against England.

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

● 1947 - The American Helicopter Society revealed a flying device that could be strapped to a person's body.

● 1959 - 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government & installs Panchen Lama

● 1960 - Two anti-payola bills introduced in Congress by Rep. Emanuel Celler of New York. He blames payola for "the cacophonous music called rock and roll" and claims it would never have achieved popularity, "especially among teenagers," if not for payola.

● 1960 - Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African & 1st Filipino cardinal

● 1960 - Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland)

● 1961 - English apologist C. S. Lewis wrote in "Letters to American Lady": 'The main purpose of our life is to reach the point at which one's own life as a person is at an end. One must in this sense "die," relinquish one's freedom and independence... "He that loses his life shall find it."'

● 1962 - Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees

● 1962 - The U.S. Air Force announced research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and satellites. {And to this time they have yet to demonstrate the efficacy of such a weapon.}

● 1964 - Good Friday Earthquake devastates Southern Alaska, parts of Canada, and the Western US.

● 1964 - Three hundred arrested in sit-down protest at U.S. Air Force headquarters, Ruislip, Britain.

● 1965 - Martin Luther King, Jr., on TV shortly after the conclusion of the march from Selma to Montgomery, calls for boycott of Alabama.

● 1965 - U.S. Senators Frank Church (Idaho) and George McGovern (South Dakota) come out against the Vietnam War, despite its being led by a fellow Democrat, Pres. Lyndon Johnson.

● 1967 - UN Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam

● 1968 - Spanish university students march against fascist government of Generalissimo Franco.

● 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr., leads a march by striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn. Violence at the march persuades King to return to Memphis the following week.

● 1968 - The U.S. lost its first F-111 aircraft in Vietnam when it vanished while on a combat mission. North Vietnam claimed that they had shot it down.

● 1969 - Anna Louise Strong, former Seattle School Board member and organizer of the 1919 Seattle general strike, dies in Beijing, China.

● 1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, died in Washington, D.C., at age 78.

● 1969 - Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal

● 1970 - 1,086 die when 7.3 earthquake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)

● 1972 - Quebec general strike.

● 1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1976 - FBI discloses it burglarized the Socialist Party at least 92 times between 1960 and 1966.

● 1977 - Morarji Desai forms government in India

● 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.

● 1979 - A Three Mile Island cooling unit fails, leading to a meltdown that uncovers the reactor's core. By 8 AM, after cooling water was lost and temperatures soared above 5,000 degrees, the top half of the reactor's 150-ton radioactive core collapsed and melted. Contaminated coolant escaped, releasing radioactive gasses. Amid the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history, Pennsylvania authorities take three days to advise pregnant women and children to evacuate. As many as 200,000 will flee the Harrisburg area, and the nuclear energy industry is -- until the Dubya administration -- irrevocably damaged.

● 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.

● 1981 - France performs nuclear test

● 1982 - J. N. Duartes' Christian-Democrats win elections in El Salvador

● 1983 - Argentina - 96% of workers out on strike; military junta totters.

● 1983 - Macgregor named as coal boss; Ian Macgregor, leader of the British Steel Corporation is named as the new chairman of the National Coal Board.

● 1985 - International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley's Comet

● 1985 - STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad

● 1986 - The U.S. Senate passed $100 million aid package for the Nicaraguan contras.

● 1986 - More than 6,000 radio stations of all format varieties played "We are the World" simultaneously at 10:15 a.m. EST.

● 1986 - Extremist Sikhs kill 13 Hindus in Ludhiana India

● 1986 - John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA

● 1987 - Maria von Trapp, whose life inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''The Sound of Music,'' died at age 82.

● 1990 - President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal. {Despite this, he still fails to capture the African-American vote in the 1992 presidential elections.}

● 1990 - In Britain, a joint Anglo-U.S. "sting" operation ended with the seizure of 40 capacitors, which can be used in the trigger mechanism of a nuclear weapon.

● 1991 - Family anger at Hillsborough verdict; A jury returns a verdict of accidental death at the end of the inquest of 95 Liverpool football fans crushed to death in Sheffield.

● 1991 - The U.S. embassy in Moscow was severely damaged by fire.

● 1993 - RAF bombs new German high-tech prison.

● 1993 - Conservatives win French parliamentary election

● 1993 - Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031)

● 1994 - In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.

● 1994 - Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election

● 1995 - World's largest bank-Japan's Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge

● 1999 - Paraguay's President Raúl Cubas Grau resigned after protests inspired by the assassination of Vice-President Luis María Argaña on March 23. The nation's Congress had accused Grau and his political associate, Gen. Lino César Oviedo, for Cubas' murder. Senate President Luis González Macchi took office as Paraguay's new chief executive.

● 2000 - A Murray County, Georgia, school bus gets hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die from this accident).

● 2000 - In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court sharply curtailed police power to rely on tips to stop and search people.

● 2002 - The Arab League agreed on a peace plan that offered Israel normal relations in exchange for a full withdrawal from war-won lands and a Palestinian state.

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

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

● 2006 - At least 1 million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law that effected youth labor.

BIRTHS

● 1472 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)

● 1496 - Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)

● 1515 - Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (d. 1582)

● 1522 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557)

● 1569 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622)

● 1592 - Comenius, Czech bishop of Unity of the Brethren (d. 1670)

● 1599 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (d. 1658)

● 1609 - King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)

● 1613 - Xiaozhuangwen Grand Empress Dowager, Empress in Manchu (d. 1688)

● 1652 - Samuel Sewall, American magistrate (d. 1730)

● 1674 - William Byrd, American planter, satirist, and diarist (d. 1744)

● 1725 - Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)

● 1750 - Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (d. 1816)

● 1760 - Thomas Clarkson, British abolitionist (d. 1846)

● 1773 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)

● 1793 - Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, (d. 1864)

● 1795 - Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876)

● 1806 - Thomas Hare, English barrister (d. 1891)

● 1811 - St. John Neumann, Bohemian-born American bishop canonized the first American male saint in 1977 (d. 1860)

● 1815 - Arsène Houssaye, French novelist (d. 1896)

● 1818 - Wade Hampton III, American soldier and politician (d. 1902)

● 1819 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891)

● 1836 - Frederick Pabst, American brewer (d. 1904)

● 1840 - Emin Pasha, physician, naturalist and governor of Equatoria (d. 1892)

● 1842 - William Harvey Carney, American Civil War hero (d. 1908)

● 1849 - James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894)

● 1851 - Bernardino Machado, Portuguese President (d. 1944)

● 1862 - Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)

● 1866 - Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)

● 1868 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)

● 1871 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951)

● 1890 - Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967)

● 1892 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

● 1892 - Tom Maguire, Irish republican (d. 1993)

● 1893 - Spyros Skouras, Greek-American movie executive, chairman of the Twentieth Century Fox (d. 1971)

● 1895 - Spencer W. Kimball, twelfth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1985)

● 1897 - Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977)

● 1899 - Harold B. Lee, eleventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973)

● 1899 - Gussie Busch, American baseball owner (d. 1989)

● 1899 - Ernst Lindemann, German naval officer (d. 1941)

● 1899 - Buck Shaw, American Football Coach

● 1902 - Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)

● 1902 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (d. 1988)

● 1903 - Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)

● 1903 - Charles Starrett, American actor (d. 1986)

● 1905 - Marlin Perkins, American naturalist and television host (d. 1986)

● 1905 - Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (d. 1996)

● 1909 - Nelson Algren, American writer (d. 1981)

● 1910 - Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr. Bibliophile and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library (d. 2001)

● 1910 - Jimmie Dodd, American television actor (d. 1964)

● 1910 - Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)

● 1911 - J. L. Austin, British philosopher of language (d. 1960)

● 1912 - A. Bertram Chandler Australian science fiction author (d. 1984)

● 1912 - Marina Raskova, Russian navigator (d. 1943)

● 1913 - Onoe Shoroku II, Japanese actor and interpreter of kabuki plays (d. 1989)

● 1914 - Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996)

● 1914 - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000)

● 1914 - Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (d. 1997)

● 1914 - Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entymologist (d. 2003)

● 1915 - Jay Livingston, American composer and songwriter (d. 2001)

● 1919 - Vic Raschi, American baseball pitcher (d. 1988)

● 1921 - Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)

● 1921 - Herschel Grynszpan, German political assassin (d. between 1943 and 1945)

● 1922 - Neville Bonner, Australian politician

● 1922 - Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)

● 1924 - Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (d. 1992)

● 1925 - Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress

● 1927 - Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author

● 1928 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. National Security Advisor

● 1928 - Alexander Grothendieck, German mathematician

● 1930 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1930 - Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer

● 1930 - Robert Ashley, American composer

● 1933 - Tete Montoliu, Spanish Jazz pianist

● 1933 - Frank Murkowski, American politician

● 1935 - Michael Parkinson, English broadcaster and talk show host

● 1936 - Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and politician

● 1941 - Jim Turner, American football player

● 1941 - Alf Clausen, orchestra conductor (The Simpsons)

● 1941 - Charlie McCoy, Country musician

● 1942 - Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998)

● 1942 - Jerry Sloan, American basketball coach

● 1942 - Mike Newell, English film director

● 1942 - Neil Kinnock, British statesman

● 1942 - Daniel Dennett, American philosopher

● 1942 - Samuel Ramey, American opera singer

● 1943 - Conchata Ferrell, American actress

● 1944 - Rick Barry, American basketball player

● 1944 - Ken Howard, American actor (''The White Shadow'')

● 1946 - Henry Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury

● 1946 - Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru

● 1946 - Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut

● 1948 - Dianne Wiest, American actress

● 1948 - Gerry House, American radio personality and songwriter

● 1948 - John Evan, British musician (Jethro Tull)

● 1948 - Milan Williams, American musician The Commodores

● 1951 - Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina

● 1951 - Matti Pellonpää, Finnish actor and musician (d. 1995)

● 1952 - Tony Brise, racing driver (d. 1975)

● 1953 - Melchior Ndadaye, first President of Burundi (d. 1993)

● 1954 - Morris Mason, American rapist and murderer (d. 1985)

● 1955 - John Alderdice, Northern Irish politician

● 1955 - Reba McEntire, American singer and actress

● 1956 - April Margera, Bam Margera's mother

● 1958 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)

● 1958 - Elisabeth Andreassen, Scandinavian singer

● 1959 - Chris Myers, American radio host/sportscaster

● 1960 - Chris Barrie, British actor

● 1960 - José Maria Neves, Prime Minister of Cape Verde

● 1961 - Byron Scott, American basketball player

● 1962 - Jure Franko, Slovenian skier

● 1965 - Steve Bull, English footballer

● 1967 - Tracey Needham. Actress

● 1968 - Max Perlich, Actor

● 1968 - Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004)

● 1968 - Nasser Hussain, English cricketer

● 1968 - Jon Lee, British drummer (d. 2002)

● 1968 - Tim Lovejoy, British television presenter

● 1969 - Rodney Atkins, Country singer

● 1969 - Brett Ratner, American film director

● 1970 - Vince Vaughn, American actor

● 1970 - Michelle Gildernew, Irish republican politician

● 1971 - Mr. Cheeks, American rapper (Lost Boyz)

● 1972 - Nick Frost, English comedian and actor

● 1972 - Keith Tkachuk, American ice hockey player

● 1973 - Ken L., Actor

● 1973 - Eddie Fatu, Samoan professional wrestler

● 1973 - Matt Nathanson, American singer-songwriter

● 1974 - Mark King, English snooker player

● 1974 - Scott Mills, British radio disc jockey

● 1975 - Shanna Moakler, former beauty queen

● 1976 - David Keuning, American guitar player (The Killers)

● 1977 - Devon, American porn actress

● 1978 - April Flowers, American porn actress

● 1979 - Park Chae-rim, South Korean actress

● 1980 - Luke Walton, basketball player

● 1980 - Stiliani Pilatou, Greek long jumper

● 1981 - Julia Stiles, American actress

● 1983 - Ryan Ashington, English footballer

● 1984 - Nikki Sanderson, British actress and model

● 1986 - Barbora Strýcová, Czech tennis player

● 1986 - J-Kwon, American rapper

● 1988 - Lacey Turner, British soap actress

● 1989 - Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater

● 1991 - Amy Bruckner, American actress

DEATHS

● 193 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 126)

● 1239 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)

● 1285 - Pope Martin IV

● 1563 - Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)

● 1566 - Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486)

● 1677 - Václav Hollar, Czech-born actor (b. 1607)

● 1687 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)

● 1794 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (b. 1743)

● 1866 - Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802

● 1868 - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797)

● 1870 - George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)

● 1874 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)

● 1881 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)

● 1910 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)

● 1910 - Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838)

● 1939 - Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)

● 1941 - Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)

● 1942 - Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet, death in prison (b. 1910)

● 1943 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873)

● 1946 - Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904)

● 1947 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)

● 1949 - Grigoraş Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (b. 1889)

● 1953 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)

● 1958 - W.C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873)

● 1965 - Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer (b. 1885)

● 1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)

● 1978 - Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (d. 1941)

● 1979 - Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)

● 1980 - Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer (b. 1918)

● 1982 - William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)

● 1985 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)

● 1987 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (b. 1905)

● 1987 - Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)

● 1995 - Hugh O'Connor, American actor (b. 1962)

● 1999 - Freaky Tah, American Rapper, member of the group Lost Boyz

● 2000 - Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)

● 2001 - Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (b. 1928)

● 2004 - Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)

● 2004 - Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)

● 2006 - Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)

● 2006 - Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alexander
● Sts. Castor & Dorotheus
● St. Conon
● St. Gontram (d. 592)
● St. Gundelindis
● St. James Claxton, Blessed
● St. Malchus
● St. Priscus
● St. Rogatus
● St. Sixtus III
● St. Tutilo
● St. Venturino of Bergamo

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 15 (Civil Date: March 28)
● Martyrs Agapius, Publius (Pauplios), Timolaus, Romulus, two named Dionysius, and two named Alexander, at Caesarea in Palestine.
● Martyr Nicander of Egypt.
● Hieromartyr Alexander of Side in Pamphylia.
● St. Nicander, monk of Gorodetsk (Novgorod).
● New-Martyr Manuel of Crete.

● Old Roman Catholic:
● St. John Capistran, confessor (now 10/23)

● Slovakia, Czech Republic - Teachers' Day.

● Libya : Evacuation Day

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Alaska Seward Day (1867) - (Monday)
● US Virgin Island: Transfer Day (1917) - (Monday)


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from "The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right" Compiled by William P. Martin 2004

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