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   03/28/1840 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89   
   03/28/1847 Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer, dies at 67   
   03/28/1856 Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer, dies at 76   
   03/28/1860 Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer, dies at 73   
   03/28/1863 James Cooper, US attorney/senator/Union-brig-general, dies at 52   
   03/28/1865 Albert G Bilders, landscape painter, dies at 26   
   03/28/1877 Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer, dies at 77   
   03/28/1880 Achille Peri, composer, dies at 67   
   03/28/1881 Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, composer, dies at 42   
   03/28/1885 Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer, dies at 53   
   03/28/1889 Matilde 'Tillie' Ziegler, 1st on electric chair   
   03/28/1907 Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, composer, dies at 65   
   03/28/1910 Edouard [Judas] Colonne, French violinist/conductor, dies   
   03/28/1914 Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55   
   03/28/1927 Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57   
   03/28/1928 Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63   
   03/28/1941 Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To the Lighthouse), dies   
   03/28/1942 Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67   
      
   03/28/1942 Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies   
   03/28/1943 Sergej V Rachmaninoff, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69   
   03/28/1944 Chayyim Most, Rabbi/Maggid of Kovono, killed by nazis   
   03/28/1944 Stephen Leacock, dies   
   03/28/1947 Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer, dies at 57   
   03/28/1953 James Francis Thorpe, decathelete (Olympic-gold-12), dies at 64   
   03/28/1954 Francis B Young, British physician/writer (In South Africa), dies   
   03/28/1958 Chuck Klein, Phila Phillie HR hitter, dies at 53   
   03/28/1959 W C Handy, jazz star, dies at 85   
   03/28/1960 Ian Keith, US actor (Ramses I-10 Commandments), dies at 61   
   03/28/1963 Alec A Templeton, composer/pianist (Alec Templeton Time), dies at 52   
      
   03/28/1965 VAA Mary, English princess, dies at 67   
   03/28/1969 Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th pres/gen (WW 2), dies in Washington at 78   
   03/28/1971 Felix Wolfes, composer, dies at 78   
   03/28/1973 Hakuun Yasutani, Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies   
   03/28/1974 Dorothy Fields, US singer (Way you Look Tonight), dies at 68   
   03/28/1974 Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82   
   03/28/1975 Renzo Massarani, composer, dies at 77   
   03/28/1979 Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80   
   03/28/1980 Dick Haymes, actor (Real Life, Betrayal), dies   
   03/28/1980 Jesse Owens, (Oly-gold-36), dies at the age of 66, in Tucson Arizona   
      
   03/28/1983 Ank [Anna M] van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy), dies   
   03/28/1983 Martinus A Jansen, bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies   
   03/28/1984 Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead   
   03/28/1985 Marc Chagall, French painter, dies at 97   
   03/28/1985 Nand Baert, Belgian radio/tv-host, dies at 53   
   03/28/1986 Victor J Lopez, actor (Chuey-Man From Atlantis), dies at 39   
   03/28/1986 Virginia Gilmore, actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies   
   03/28/1987 Maria Augusta Trapp, singer (Trapp Family Singers), dies at 82   
   03/28/1987 Patrick Troughton, actor (Dr Who-Dr Who), dies at 56   
   03/28/1990 Helene Fortescu Reynolds, actress (Bermuda Mystery, Moontide), dies   
   03/28/1991 Carlos Montalban, actor (Bananas), dies   
   03/28/1992 Wendell Mayes, writer, dies   
   03/28/1994 Albert Goldman, US biographer (Lives of John Lennon), dies at 66   
   03/28/1994 EugŠne Ionesco, playwright (Le‡on, Le roi se meurt), dies at about 8   
      
      
      
   Significant Events:   
      
   03/28/1535 Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed   
   03/28/1556 Origin of Fasli Era (India)   
   03/28/1774 Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts   
   03/28/1797 Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine   
   03/28/1799 NY State abolished slavery, 1799   
   03/28/1802 H W Olbers discovers asteroid #2 Pallas   
   03/28/1802 Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid (Pallas)   
   03/28/1804 Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804   
   03/28/1834 Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US   
   03/28/1849 Dutch princess Marianne & Prince Albert of Prussia separate   
   03/28/1862 Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia   
   03/28/1871 SF Art Assn holds open reception at 430 Pine   
   03/28/1885 US Salvation Army officially organized   
   03/28/1891 1st world weightlifting championship held   
   03/28/1896 The opera 'Andrea Chenier' is produced (Milan)   
   03/28/1900 A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #454 Mathesis   
   03/28/1902 27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville, Tennessee (state record)   
   03/28/1905 Paramaribo-Dam railway opens in Suriname, never used   
   03/28/1910 1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre   
      
   03/28/1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities   
   03/28/1920 Thomas Masaryk becomes president of Czechoslovakia   
   03/28/1922 Toronto St Pats beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 2 for Stanley Cup   
   03/28/1924 WGN-AM in Chicago IL begins radio transmissions   
   03/28/1929 Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador   
   03/28/1930 Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara   
   03/28/1933 German Reichstage confers dictatorial powers to Adolph Hitler   
   03/28/1935 Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket   
   03/28/1939 Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down   
   03/28/1939 Renaissance Big 5 win 1st pro basketball championship   
   03/28/1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco   
   03/28/1941 Sea battle at Cape Matapan   
   03/28/1942 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire   
   03/28/1942 RAF bombs L�beck   
   03/28/1942 Raid on lock/dock St Nazaire   
   03/28/1944 Astrid Lindgren begins writing Pippi Longstocking   
   03/28/1944 NBA rookie of the year in 1966, Rick Barry   
   03/28/1944 Utah defeated Dartmouth 42-40 to win the NCAA basketball title   
   03/28/1945 Last V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London   
   03/28/1950 NYC college becomes 1st to win NCAA & Natl Inv Basketball in same ye   
      
   03/28/1953 'Stock exchanges open, dikes closed' raises Ÿ5,200,000   
   03/28/1953 KCAU TV channel 9 in Sioux City, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting   
   03/28/1954 WKAQ TV channel 2 in San Juan, PR (TM) begins broadcasting   
   03/28/1957 1st National Curling Championship held   
   03/28/1960 Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African & 1st Filipino cardin   
      
   03/28/1960 Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland)   
   03/28/1962 Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees   
   03/28/1963 AFL's NY Titan's become the NY Jets   
   03/28/1964 1st pirate radio station near England (Radio Caroline)   
   03/28/1964 Earthquake strikes Alaska   
   03/28/1968 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3049   
   03/28/1969 Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal   
   03/28/1970 1,086 die when 7.4 quake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey)   
   03/28/1973 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3071 Nesterov   
   03/28/1974 Rock group Raspberries breakup   
   03/28/1975 Wash Caps win 1st game on road after 37 straight road loses also   
   03/28/1977 49th Academy Awards   
   03/28/1977 Morarji Desai forms govt in India   
   03/28/1977 Retiring coach Al McGuire's Marquette basketball team wins NCAA   
   03/28/1979 British government of Callaghan falls   
   03/28/1979 Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pa (no deaths)   
   03/28/1981 Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 m 40.18 sec)   
   03/28/1981 Sch”nbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:21.70)   
   03/28/1981 Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (36.91 secs)   
   03/28/1982 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2873 Binzel   
   03/28/1982 JN Duartes christian-democrats win elections in El Salvador   
   03/28/1982 Lousiana Tech wond 1st NCAA women's basketball title   
      
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