Thursday, March 28, 2024

On This Day in History

March 28

  

Historical Events

1854 Great Britain and France declare war on Russia, expanding the Crimean War. 

Henri Fabre at the controls of his hydroplane. Three floats, connected to the
aircraft by thin struts, trail white wake in the water.

1910 First seaplane takes off from water under its own power, piloted by Henri Fabre from the Étang de Berre lagoon at Martigues, France. 

1939 Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to the Nationalists headed by Francisco Franco. 

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

1979 A partial meltdown at Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US results in the release of radioactive gas and iodine into the atmosphere but no deaths. 

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Famous Birthdays

Henry Schoolcraft
1793 - 1864

Maxim Gorky
1868 - 1936

Mario Vargas Llosa
88th Birthday

Lady Gaga
38th Birthday

Also Aristide Briand, Amancio Ortega (88) and Rodrigo Duterte (79) 

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Famous Deaths

Ivan the Terrible
1530 - 1584

Virginia Woolf
1882 - 1941

Also Marquis de Condorcet, Jim Thorpe and Dwight D. Eisenhower. 

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Istanbul – The Queen of Cities

On this day the ancient city of Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul, while the town of Angora became Ankara, the new capital of Turkey. 

Constantinople Renamed Istanbul