| DAY | EVENT | |
| 1483 | Mar 28 | Raphael, painter (School of Athens), was born in Urbino, Italy. |
| 1673 | Mar 28 | Adam Pijnacker (51), Dutch landscape painter, etcher, was buried. |
| 1797 | Mar 28 | Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine. |
| 1821 | Mar 28 | Greek Independence Day celebrates the liberation of Southern Greece from Turkish domination. |
| 1837 | Mar 28 | Felix Mendelssohn married Cecile Jeanrenaud. |
| 1845 | Mar 28 | Mexico dropped diplomatic relations with US. |
| 1862 | Mar 28 | US Civil War skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia. |
| 1908 | Mar 28 | Automobile owners lobbied Congress, supporting a bill that called for vehicle licensing and federal registration. |
| 1917 | Mar 28 | Jews were expelled from Tel Aviv and Jaffa by Turkish authorities. |
| 1927 | Mar 28 | Karl Prohaska (57), composer, died. |
| 1930 | Mar 28 | The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara. |
| 1933 | Mar 28 | Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools. |
| 1935 | Mar 28 | Goddard used gyroscopes to control a rocket. |
| 1942 | Mar 28 | Samuel Ramey, bass (La Scala, Met Opera), was born in Colby, Kansas. |
| 1953 | Mar 28 | In the 7th Tony Awards: Crucible and Wonderful Town won. |
| 1955 | Mar 28 | John Marshall Harlan was sworn in to the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| 1960 | Mar 28 | In Glasgow, Scotland, a factory exploded burying 20 fire fighters. |
| 1962 | Mar 28 | The U.S. Air Force announced research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and satellites. |
| 1964 | Mar 28 | Much of Crescent City, Ca., was demolished early today by a tsunami generated from the 8.6 earthquake that hit Valdez, Alaska. 11 people were killed. |
| 1968 | Mar 28 | The U.S. lost its first aircraft in Vietnam. An F-111 vanished in a combat mission over North Vietnam. Republic Aircraft’s F-105 Thunderchief, better known as the ‘Thud,’ was the Air Force’s war-horse in Vietnam. |
| 1971 | Mar 28 | CBS aired the final broadcast of its Ed Sullivan Show. Reruns and pre-emptions aired in that time slot throughout the following April and May, and in June, CBS announced that The Ed Sullivan Show had been cancelled. |
| 1977 | Mar 28 | In the 49th Academy Awards “Rocky,” Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway won. |
| 1984 | Mar 28 | Zoe, the 1st frozen-embryo child, was born in Melbourne, Australia. Scientists reported the birth 2 weeks later. |
| 1986 | Mar 28 | The U.S. Senate passed a $100 million aid package for the Nicaraguan contras. |
| 1988 | Mar 28 | Richard Gephardt ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, following his third-place finish in the Michigan caucuses. |
| 1990 | Mar 28 | Jesse Owens (1913-1980) was awarded (posthumously) the Congressional Gold Medal from President George Bush. |
| 1991 | Mar 28 | Former President Reagan declared his support for the so-called “Brady Bill” requiring a seven-day waiting period for handgun purchases. |
| 1993 | Mar 28 | Francisco Garcia Diaz discovered a type II supernova in M81 (NGC 3031). |
| 1994 | Mar 28 | In Johannesburg, South Africa, ANC guards killed more than 50 people in violence that erupted during a march by Zulu nationalists. |
| 1996 | Mar 28 | Congress passed the line-item veto, giving the president power to cut government spending by scrapping specific programs. |
| 1997 | Mar 28 | Robert Pinsky (56) of Boston Univ. was named poet laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress. |
| 1998 | Mar 28 | President Clinton, during his visit to South Africa, went to Soweto, a landmark in the bloody uprising against apartheid, to honor South Africans “who answered the call of conscience” and defeated their country’s system of white supremacy. |
| 1999 | Mar 28 | Venus Williams beat kid sister Serena 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 to win the Lipton Championships in the first all-sister women’s final in 115 years. |
| 2000 | Mar 28 | In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court sharply curtailed police power to rely on anonymous tips to stop and search people. |
| 2001 | Mar 28 | The EU expressed concern over Pres. Bush’s abandonment of the Kyoto Treaty for cutting carbon dioxide emissions. |
| 2002 | Mar 28 | A US diplomat, reportedly the CIA station chief, was pulled from Belgrade following accusations that he was receiving military secrets. |
| 2003 | Mar 28 | Chechen rebels killed six Russian soldiers and two riot police. |
| 2004 | Mar 28 | France’s left-wing opposition bulldozed its way across the country in second-round midterm regional elections, putting pressure on President Jacques Chirac to revamp his Cabinet and perhaps even ditch his prime minister due to widely unpopular economic reforms and rising unemployment. |
| 2005 | Mar 28 | The Colorado Supreme Court threw out the death penalty in a rape-and-murder case because five of the jurors had consulted the Bible and quoted Scripture during deliberations. |
| 2006 | Mar 28 | President Bush announced that White House chief of staff Andy Card has resigned and will be replaced by budget director Joshua Bolten. |
| 2007 | Mar 28 | In Afghanistan a suicide bomber trying to blend in with street beggars exploded himself near a top intelligence official in a crowded part of Kabul, killing four people. |
| 2008 | Mar 28 | The US Transportation Security Administration said it will change they way its officers search passengers with body piercings after a Texas woman complained she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane. |
| 2009 | Mar 28 | The space shuttle Discovery landed in Florida following a 13-day mission to the Int’l. Space Station (ISS). |
| 2010 | Mar 28 | US federal agents in Ohio arrested 2 members Hutaree, a Christian militia group “preparing for end time battles to keep the testimony of Jesus Christ alive.” A 3rd person was arrested the next day in Indiana as part of an investigation led by the FBI in Michigan. |
| 2011 | Mar 28 | President Barack Obama explained to a hesitant America why he launched the military assault in Libya. |
| 2012 | Mar 28 | A coalition of environmental groups warned that some 200 critically-endangered orangutans in a protected area of Indonesia’s Aceh province will be wiped out by the end of the year if land clearing in Tripa Swamp is not stopped. |
| 2013 | Mar 28 | The Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index hit an all-time high of 1569.19, surpassing the Oct 9,2007 high of 1565.15. |
| 2014 | Mar 28 | President Barack Obama opened a fence-mending visit to Saudi Arabia, arriving in the oil-rich Gulf nation for meetings to reassure its elderly monarch of the US commitment to the Arab world. |
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