Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 28

This is a list of selected March 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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  Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
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  Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
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  Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
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  James Callaghan
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  Fabre Hydravion
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  Vienna Philharmonic, 2019
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  Coin of Didius Julianus

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Teachers' Day in the Czech Republic;	refimprove
Serfs Emancipation Day in Tibet (1959)	tagged for reliability of sources
1776 – Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza selected the site for the Presidio of San Francisco, the northernmost outpost of the Spanish Empire in the New World.	both: refimprove section
1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceased to exist and became part of the Russian Empire.	refimprove
1814 – War of 1812: Off the coast of Valparaíso, Chile, two Royal Navy ships easily captured two American ones.	single source
1842 – The Vienna Philharmonic (pictured) held its first concert, conducted by Otto Nicolai.	citations needed
1862 – American Civil War: An invasion of the New Mexico Territory by the Confederate States Army was halted by Union forces at the Battle of Glorieta Pass.	lots of CN tags (10), expansion
1910 – French aviator Henri Fabre's floatplane, the Fabre Hydravion (pictured), became the first aircraft to take off from water under its own power at the Étang de Berre near Martigues in southern France.	Too much uncited
1920 – An outbreak of 37 tornadoes across the Midwestern and Southern United States left more than 380 people dead.	lots of CN tags (intro & first section)
1959 – After the Dalai Lama fled Tibet, China installed the Panchen Lama as the head of the government.	lead too short, neutrality issues
1964 – Radio Caroline began broadcasting as a pirate radio station from a boat anchored in international waters.	refimprove sections
1979 – A partial core meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, resulted in the release of an estimated 43,000 curies (1.59 PBq) of radioactive krypton to the environment.	lots of CN tags
2005 – The Nias–Simeulue earthquake hit the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, killing approximately 1,300 people.	needs more footnotes
2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In a friendly fire incident, two members of the United States Air Force attacked the United Kingdom's Blues and Royals regiment, killing one soldier and injuring five.	citations needed

Eligible

• 193 – The Praetorian Guard assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax and sold the imperial office in an auction to Didius Julianus (coin pictured).

• 1918 – World War I: British and Australian troops defeated German forces at the First Battle of Dernancourt in northern France.
• 1933 – After an on-board fire that may have been the first incident of airliner sabotage, the Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool broke apart in mid-air, killing fifteen people.
• 1997 – In the Tragedy of Otranto, the Italian Navy vessel Sibilla collided with the Albanian civilian vessel Kateri i Radës, causing the latter to sink and leading to dozens of deaths.
• 2015 – A siege of a hotel in Mogadishu by al-Shabaab militants, which began the previous day and killed at least 20 people, ended with the Somali Armed Forces recapturing the premises.

• Born/died this day: | Flodoard |d|966| Stephen Harding |d|1134| Isabella Markham |b|1527| John Amos Comenius |b|1592| Solomon Foot |d|1866 |James Brudenell |d|1868| Gussie Busch |b|1899| Edmund Muskie |b|1914| Eileen Crofton |b|1919| Harold Agnew |b|1921|John Alderdice, Baron Alderdice |b|1955|Sybil Irving |d|1973 | Jon Skolmen |d|2019

Notes

• 4 Vesta appears on March 29, so 2 Pallas should not appear in the same year
• April 2, 2006 tornado outbreak appears on April 2 and Super Outbreak (1974) appears on April 3 and 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak appears on April 5, so 1920 outbreak should not appear in the same year

March 28

HMS Campbeltown during the St Nazaire Raid

• 1802 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Pallas, the second asteroid to be identified, but at the time considered to be a planet.
• 1935 – The Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin.
• 1942 – Second World War: The port of Saint-Nazaire in German-occupied France was disabled by British naval forces (ship pictured).
• 1946 – The US Department of State released the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, a proposal for the international control of nuclear weapons.
• 1979 – British prime minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a vote of no confidence after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes during the Winter of Discontent.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica.

• Ernst Lindemann (b. 1894)
• Nasser Hussain (b. 1968)
• Lady Gaga (b. 1986)
• Charles Schepens (d. 2006)

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