Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 28 March.
- Roman Emperor Pertinax assassinated
- Jan Amos Komensky - Moravian educational reformer
- Nathaniel Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
- Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid - later called Pallas
- Heinrich Olbers discovers 4th asteroid (Vesta)
- Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
- SF Art Assn holds open reception at 430 Pine
- Constantinople & Angora change to Istanbul & Ankara
- Spanish Civil War ends - Madrid fell to Francisco Franco
- Novelist & critic Virginia Woolf dies
- British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire
- Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff dies
- Athlete Jim Thorpe dies
- Eisenhower the 34th pres dies in Washington at 78
- Nuclear accident at 3 Mile Is - Middletown - Pa