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
- 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, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
- 364 –Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
- 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.
- 1802 –Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
- 1809 –Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.
- 1920 –Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
- 1939 –Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid.
- 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 heavy cruisers and two destroyers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1979 –Operators of Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open following an unexpected shutdown. As a result, enough coolant drains out of the system to allow the core to overheat and partially melt down.
- 1979 –The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan’s government, precipitating a general election.
- 1990 –President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
- 1994 –BBC Radio 5 is closed and replaced with a new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live.
- 1994 –In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
- 2000 –Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train.
- 2005 –The 2005 Sumatra earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965.
- 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.
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