About March 28
March 28, 2025 is the 87th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 278 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 326 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 28
- 193 –Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
- 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.
- 1776 –Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
- 1794 –Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat 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.
- 1809 –Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass – in New Mexico, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
- 1889 –The Yngsjö murder occurs in Yngsjö, Sweden and Anna Månsdotter is arrested along with her son.
- 1913 –Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1930 –Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
- 1939 –Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid.
- 1942 –World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
- 1959 –The State Council of the People’s Republic of China dissolves the Government of Tibet.
- 1968 –Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship.
- 1969 –The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal’s history with 10,000 trade unionists, leftist activists, CEGEP students, and even some McGill students at McGill’s Roddick Gates. This led to the majority of the protesters getting arrested.
- 1978 –The 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.
- 1990 –President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
- 1999 –Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre.
- 2005 –The 2005 Sumatra earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965.
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