About March 28
March 28, 2023 is the 87th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 278 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 319 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1860 –First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1994 –BBC Radio 5 is closed and replaced with a new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live.
- 1999 –Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre.
- 2003 –In a friendly fire incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard’s 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.
- 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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