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March 28 is the 87th day of the year (88th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 278 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1834 – The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in de-funding the Second Bank of the United States.
• 1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
• 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.
• 1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
• 1889 – The Yngsjö murder occurs in Yngsjö, Sweden and Anna Månsdotter is arrested along with her son.
• 1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
• 1913 – Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1920 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
• 1930 – Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
• 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid.
• 1940 – Construction begins of the exhibition center to host the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair.
• 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 raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
• 1946 – Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
• 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 was one of the first major events against the military dictatorship.
• 1969 – Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
• 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.
• 1979 – In Pennsylvania, operators fail to recognize that a relief valve is stuck open in the primary coolant system of Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor 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 – In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
• 1994 – 12-year-old schoolgirl Nikki Conroy is stabbed to death at Hall Garth School in Middlesbrough after an armed man walked into her maths classroom and attacked pupils with a knife. Stephen James Wilkinson is later convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
• 2000 – A Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die in this accident).
• 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 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second 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.

Births

• 1472 – Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)
• 1515 – Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun (d. 1582)
• 1522 – Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557)
• 1569 – Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1622)
• 1592 – Comenius, Czech bishop (d. 1670)
• 1599 – Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (d. 1658)
• 1609 – King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
• 1613 – Xiaozhuangwen Grand Empress Dowager, Empress of Manchu (d. 1688)
• 1652 – Samuel Sewall, American magistrate (d. 1730)
• 1725 – Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)
• 1750 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (d. 1816)
• 1760 – Thomas Clarkson, British abolitionist (d. 1846)
• 1773 – Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (d. 1844)
• 1793 – Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
• 1795 – Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876)
• 1806 – Thomas Hare, English barrister (d. 1891)
• 1815 – Arsène Houssaye, French novelist (d. 1896)
• 1818 – Wade Hampton III, American soldier and politician (d. 1902)
• 1819 – Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891)
• 1836 – Frederick Pabst, American brewer (d. 1904)
• 1840 – Emin Pasha, Equatorian politician (d. 1892)
• 1842 – William Harvey Carney, American Civil War officer (d. 1908)
• 1849 – James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894)
• 1851 – Bernardino Machado, Portuguese politician (d. 1944)
• 1862 – Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
• 1866 – Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
• 1868 – Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
• 1871 – Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951)
• 1890 – Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967)
• 1892 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• 1892 – Tom Maguire, Irish republican (d. 1993)
• 1893 – Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971)
• 1895 – Christian Herter, 59^th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1966)
• 1895 – Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1985)
• 1897 – Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977)
• 1899 – Harold B. Lee, American religious leader (d. 1973)
• 1899 – August Anheuser Busch, Jr., brewing magnate and American baseball executive (d. 1989)
• 1899 – Ernst Lindemann, German naval officer (d. 1941)
• 1899 – Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977)
• 1900 – Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic (d. 2004)
• 1902 – Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
• 1902 – Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (d. 1988)
• 1903 – Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
• 1903 – Charles Starrett, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1905 – Marlin Perkins, American naturalist and television host (d. 1986)
• 1905 – Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (d. 1996)
• 1907 – "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (d. 1993)
• 1909 – Nelson Algren, American writer (d. 1981)
• 1910 – Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American Librarian (d. 2001)
• 1910 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor (d. 1964)
• 1910 – Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)
• 1911 – J. L. Austin, British philosopher of language (d. 1960)
• 1912 – A. Bertram Chandler Australian author (d. 1984)
• 1912 – Marina Raskova, Russian navigator (d. 1943)
• 1914 – Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entomologist (d. 2003)
• 1915 – Jay Livingston, American composer and songwriter (d. 2001)
• 1919 – Vic Raschi, American baseball player (d. 1988)
• 1921 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Herschel Grynszpan, German political assassin
• 1922 – Neville Bonner, Australian politician (d. 1999)
• 1922 – Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (d. 1990)
• 1922 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
• 1924 – Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (d. 1992)
• 1925 – Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress
• 1926 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba
• 1927 – Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. National Security Adviser
• 1928 – Alexander Grothendieck, German mathematician
• 1929 – Paul England, Australian racing driver
• 1930 – Robert Ashley, American composer
• 1930 – Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer
• 1930 – Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1933 – Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997)
• 1933 – Frank Murkowski, American politician
• 1934 – Lester Brown, American environmentalist
• 1935 – Michael Parkinson, English broadcaster
• 1936 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and politician
• 1937 – Liz Trotta, American journalist
• 1940 – Tony Barber, Australian television personality
• 1941 – Alf Clausen, America orchestra conductor
• 1941 – Jim Turner, American football player
• 1941 – Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, American author
• 1942 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
• 1942 – Neil Kinnock, British politician
• 1942 – Mike Newell, English film director
• 1942 – Samuel Ramey, American opera singer
• 1942 – Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998)
• 1942 – Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and head coach
• 1943 – Conchata Ferrell, American actress
• 1944 – Rick Barry, American basketball player
• 1944 – Ken Howard, American actor
• 1945 – Count Björn Hamilton, Swedish politician
• 1946 – Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru
• 1946 – Henry Paulson Jr., Former U.S. Treasury Secretary
• 1946 – Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut
• 1947 – John Landecker, American disk jockey
• 1948 – Dianne Wiest, American actress
• 1948 – Gerry House, American radio personality
• 1948 – John Evan, British musician (Jethro Tull)
• 1948 – Milan Williams, American musician The Commodores (d. 2006)
• 1948 – Matthew Corbett, English retired actor
• 1948 – Jayne Ann Krentz, née Castle (Amanda Quick), American novelist
• 1950 – Claudio Lolli, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1951 – Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
• 1951 – Matti Pellonpää, Finnish actor and musician (d. 1995)
• 1952 – Tony Brise, racing driver (d. 1975)
• 1953 – Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian politician (d. 1993)
• 1954 – Morris Mason, American convicted rapist and murderer (d. 1985)
• 1955 – John Alderdice, Northern Irish politician
• 1955 – Reba McEntire, American singer and actress
• 1956 – April Margera, Bam Margera's mother
• 1958 – Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
• 1958 – Edesio Alejandro, Cuban music composer.
• 1959 – Chris Myers, American sportscaster
• 1960 – Chris Barrie, British actor
• 1960 – José Maria Neves, Cape Verdeian politician
• 1960 – Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French author and dramatist
• 1961 – Orla Brady, Irish actress
• 1961 – Byron Scott, American basketball player and head coach
• 1962 – Jure Franko, Slovenian skier
• 1962 – Terry Szopinski, American pro-wrestler
• 1965 – Steve Bull, English footballer
• 1967 – John Ziegler, American talk-show host
• 1968 – Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004)
• 1968 – Nasser Hussain, English cricketer
• 1968 – Jon Lee, British drummer (d. 2002)
• 1968 – Tim Lovejoy, British television presenter
• 1968 – Max Perlich, American actor
• 1969 – Brett Ratner, American film director
• 1969 – Rodney Atkins, American country music singer-songwriter
• 1969 – Elliot Perry, American basketball player
• 1970 – Vince Vaughn, American actor
• 1970 – Michelle Gildernew, Irish republican politician
• 1970 – Aiga Zagorska, Lithuanian track and road cyclist
• 1971 – Mr. Cheeks, American rapper
• 1971 – Wesley Person, American basketball player
• 1972 – Nick Frost, English comedian and actor
• 1972 – Keith Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
• 1972 – Eby J. Jose, Indian Journalist and Human Rights Activist
• 1973 – Eddie Fatu, Samoan professional wrestler
• 1973 – Matt Nathanson, American singer-songwriter
• 1974 – Mark King, English snooker player
• 1974 – Scott Mills, British radio disc jockey
• 1975 – Shanna Moakler, former beauty queen
• 1975 – Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer
• 1975 – Matt Reis, American soccer goalkeeper
• 1975 – Richard Kelly, American film director
• 1975 – Derek Hill, American racing driver
• 1975 – Kate Gosselin, TV personality, Former Nurse
• 1976 – David Keuning, American guitar player (The Killers)
• 1977 – Erik Rasmussen, American ice hockey player
• 1977 – Lauren Weisberger, American novelist
• 1979 – Park Chae-rim, South Korean actress
• 1979 – Crystal Cox, American Olympian/reality television contestant
• 1980 – Stiliani Pilatou, Greek long jumper
• 1980 – Luke Walton, American basketball player
• 1980 – Chitrangada Singh, Bollywood Actress
• 1981 – Julia Stiles, American actress
• 1981 – Gareth David-Lloyd, Welsh Actor
• 1981 – Edwar Ramirez, American baseball player
• 1981 – Lindsay Frimodt, American model
• 1982 – Sonia Agarwal, Indian actress
• 1983 – Ryan Ashington, English footballer
• 1984 – Christopher Samba, French-born footballer
• 1984 – Nikki Sanderson, British actress and model
• 1984 – Yordanos Abay, Ethiopian footballer
• 1984 – Ol Drake, lead guitarist with Thrash Metal band Evile
• 1986 – J-Kwon, American rapper
• 1986 – Barbora Strýcová, Czech tennis player
• 1986 – Lady Gaga, American singer
• 1987 – Kagney Linn Karter, American pornographic actress
• 1988 – Lacey Turner, British soap actress
• 1989 – Marek Suchý, Czech footballer
• 1989 – Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer
• 1989 – Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
• 1990 – Zac Clarke, an Australian rules footballer
• 1991 – Amy Bruckner, American actress

Deaths

• 193 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (b. 126)
• 1072 – Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
• 1239 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
• 1285 – Pope Martin IV
• 1563 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
• 1566 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486)
• 1677 – Václav Hollar, Czech-born etcher (b. 1607)
• 1687 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
• 1794 – Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
• 1818 – Antonio Capuzzi, Italian composer (b. 1755)
• 1850 – Gerard C. Brandon, American politician (b. 1788)
• 1866 – Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
• 1868 – James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797)
• 1870 – George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
• 1874 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)
• 1881 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)
• 1884 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, son of Queen Victoria (b. 1853)
• 1910 – David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
• 1910 – Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838)
• 1928 – Nathan Stubblefield, American inventor (b. 1860)
• 1929 – Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)
• 1939 – Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
• 1941 – Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)
• 1941 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877)
• 1942 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet, death in prison (b. 1910)
• 1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873)
• 1944 – Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist (b. 1869)
• 1946 – Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904)
• 1947 – Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
• 1949 – Grigoraş Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (b. 1889)
• 1953 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
• 1958 – William Christopher Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
• 1962 – Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (b. 1883)
• 1965 – Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (b. 1885)
• 1965 – Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
• 1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi (b. 1885)
• 1974 – Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1905)
• 1976 – Arthur Crudup, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
• 1976 – Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Eric Shipton, British explorer and mountaineer (b. 1907)
• 1978 – Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (b. 1941)
• 1979 – Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
• 1980 – Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer and actor (b. 1918)
• 1982 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
• 1984 – Carmen Dragon, American conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1914)
• 1985 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
• 1986 – Virginia Gilmore. American actress (b. 1919)
• 1987 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)
• 1989 – Robert J. Wilke, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1993 – Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
• 1994 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born French playwright (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Hugh O'Connor, American actor (b. 1962)
• 2000 – Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
• 2001 – Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Kevin Pro Hart, Australian artist (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, Irish musician (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian Philosopher (b. 1911)

Holidays and observances

• China – Serfs Emancipation Day
• Slovakia, Czech Republic – Teachers' Day.
• Saint Castor
• Saint Gontram (d. 592)
• Saint Priscus
• Saint Sixtus III
• Palm Sunday (in 2010)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he already knows. ~ Epictetus

• selected by Kalki

2005

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. ~ James Callaghan (recent death)

• selected by Kalki

2006

I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time. ~ Buck Owens (recent death)

• selected by Kalki

2007

We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God... ~ Teresa of Ávila

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

Just as we cannot stop the movement of the heavens, revolving as they do with such speed, so we cannot restrain our thought. And then we send all the faculties of the soul after it, thinking we are lost, and have misused the time that we are spending in the presence of God. Yet the soul may perhaps be wholly united with Him in the Mansions very near His presence, while thought remains in the outskirts of the castle, suffering the assaults of a thousand wild and venomous creatures and from this suffering winning merit. So this must not upset us, and we must not abandon the struggle, as the devil tries to make us do. Most of these trials and times of unrest come from the fact that we do not understand ourselves. ~ Teresa of Ávila

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

I do not understand those terrors which make us cry out, Satan, Satan! when we may say, God, God! and make Satan tremble. Do we not know that he cannot stir without the permission of God? ... I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself. Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much, particularly if they be confessors. ~ Teresa of Ávila

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2010

Suggestions

I saw an angel close by me, on my left side, in bodily form. This I am not accustomed to see, unless very rarely. Though I have visions of angels frequently, yet I see them only by an intellectual vision, such as I have spoken of before. It was our Lord's will that in this vision I should see the angel in this wise. He was not large, but small of stature, and most beautiful — his face burning, as if he were one of the highest angels, who seem to be all of fire: they must be those whom we call cherubim. ~ Teresa of Ávila

• 3 Kalki 03:15, 23 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 1 I like the concept of angels but this is moreso too descriptive rather than thought-provoking. Zarbon 21:05, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:00, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Somehow in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. ~ Grace Hartigan

• 3 Zarbon 21:05, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 21:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3. The quote has now been sourced and expanded. Suggestion for a longer quote: "I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure that doesnt deter me in the least." - InvisibleSun 23:00, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:29, 27 March 2009 (UTC) for the extended version, with a lean toward 4.

Whoever embarks with a woman embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats. ~ Arsène Houssaye

• 2 Zarbon 21:05, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 21:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital. ~ Arsène Houssaye

• 2 Zarbon 21:05, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 21:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal. ~ J. L. Austin

• 4 Zarbon 21:05, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 21:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:00, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers. ~ J. L. Austin

• 2 Kalki 21:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3
• 1 Zarbon 22:41, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:00, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction. ~ J. L. Austin

• 3 Kalki 21:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 2 Zarbon 22:41, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:00, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things? ~ J. L. Austin

• 3 Kalki 21:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 22:41, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:00, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Ordinary language is not the last word: in principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon and superseded. Only remember, it is the first word. ~ J. L. Austin

• 3 Kalki 21:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 1 Zarbon 22:41, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:00, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on March 28.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 2005
  • Mario Party Advance for the Game Boy Advance in North America
  • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

• 2003
  • Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball for the Xbox in Europe
• 2002
  • Kingdom Hearts for the PlayStation 2 in Japan

From Familypedia

March 28 is the 87th day of the year (88th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 278 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 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.
• 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 defeated 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.
• 1802 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
• 1809 - Peninsular War: In the Battle of Medelin France defeats Spain.
• 1834 - The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the Second Bank of the United States.
• 1854 - Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
• 1860 - First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass - In New Mexico, Union forces succeed in stopping the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
• 1871 - The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
• 1910 - Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
• 1913 - Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1920 - Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
• 1930 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
• 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid.
• 1940 - The exhibition center to host the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair starts being built.
• 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 battleships and two destroyers.
• 1942 - World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
• 1946 - Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
• 1969 - Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
• 1978 - 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.
• 1979 - In Pennsylvania, a pump in the reactor cooling system fails in the Three Mile Island accident, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown.
• 1979 - British Prime Minister James Callaghan, is defeated by one vote in a Motion of No Confidence. This results in Parliament being dissolved in order to make way for a forthcoming General Election.
• 1990 - President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
• 1994 - In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
• 2000 - A Murray County, school bus gets hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die from this accident).
• 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 attacked British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.
• 2005 - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1960.
• 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.

Births

• 1472 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (d. 1517)
• 1515 - Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun (d. 1582)
• 1522 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (d. 1557)
• 1569 - Ranuccio I Farnese (d. 1622)
• 1592 - Comenius, Czech bishop (d. 1670)
• 1599 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (d. 1658)
• 1609 - King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
• 1613 - Xiaozhuangwen Grand Empress Dowager, Empress of Manchu (d. 1688)
• 1652 - Samuel Sewall, American magistrate (d. 1730)
• 1725 - Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)
• 1750 - Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (d. 1816)
• 1760 - Thomas Clarkson, British abolitionist (d. 1846)
• 1773 - Henri Gratien, French general (d. 1844)
• 1793 - Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist (d. 1864)
• 1795 - Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876)
• 1806 - Thomas Hare, English barrister (d. 1891)
• 1815 - Arsène Houssaye, French novelist (d. 1896)
• 1818 - Wade Hampton III, American soldier and politician (d. 1902)
• 1819 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891)
• 1836 - Frederick Pabst, American brewer (d. 1904)
• 1840 - Emin Pasha, Equatorian politician (d. 1892)
• 1842 - William Harvey Carney, American Civil War officier (d. 1908)
• 1849 - James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894)
• 1851 - Bernardino Machado, Portuguese politician (d. 1944)
• 1862 - Aristide Briand, French politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
• 1866 - Jimmy Ross, Scottish footballer (d. 1902)
• 1868 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
• 1871 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951)
• 1890 - Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967)
• 1892 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• 1892 - Tom Maguire, Irish republican (d. 1993)
• 1893 - Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive (d. 1971)
• 1895 - Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader (d. 1985)
• 1897 - Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977)
• 1899 - Harold B. Lee, American religious leader (d. 1973)
• 1899 - August Anheuser Busch, brewing magnate and American baseball executive (d. 1989)
• 1899 - Ernst Lindemann, German naval officer (d. 1941)
• 1899 - Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977)
• 1900 - Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic (d. 2004)
• 1902 - Dame Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
• 1902 - Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (d. 1988)
• 1903 - Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
• 1903 - Charles Starrett, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1905 - Marlin Perkins, American naturalist and television host (d. 1986)
• 1905 - Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (d. 1996)
• 1907 - "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (d. 1993)
• 1909 - Nelson Algren, American writer (d. 1981)
• 1910 - Frederick Baldwin Adams, American Librarian (d. 2001)
• 1910 - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (d. 1964)
• 1910 - Queen Ingrid of Denmark (d. 2000)
• 1911 - J. L. Austin, British philosopher of language (d. 1960)
• 1912 - A. Bertram Chandler Australian author (d. 1984)
• 1912 - Marina Raskova, Russian navigator (d. 1943)
• 1914 - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1914 - Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (d. 1997)
• 1914 - Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996)
• 1914 - Kenneth Richard Norris, Australian entymologist (d. 2003)
• 1915 - Jay Livingston, American composer and songwriter (d. 2001)
• 1919 - Vic Raschi, American baseball player (d. 1988)
• 1921 - Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
• 1921 - Herschel Grynszpan, German political assassin (d. between 1943 and 1945)
• 1922 - Neville Bonner, Australian politician
• 1922 - Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
• 1922 - Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
• 1924 - Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (d. 1992)
• 1925 - Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress
• 1926 - Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart
• 1927 - Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (d. 2007)
• 1928 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. National Security Advisor
• 1928 - Alexander Grothendieck, German mathematician
• 1929 - Paul England, Australian racing driver
• 1930 - Robert Ashley, American composer
• 1930 - Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer
• 1930 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1933 - Tete Montoliu, Spanish jazz pianist (d. 1997)
• 1933 - Frank Murkowski, American politician
• 1935 - Michael Parkinson, English broadcaster
• 1936 - Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and politician
• 1940 - Tony Barber, Australian television personality
• 1941 - Alf Clausen, orchestra conductor (The Simpsons)
• 1941 - Jim Turner, American football player
• 1942 - Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
• 1942 - Neil Kinnock, British statesman
• 1942 - Mike Newell, English film director
• 1942 - Samuel Ramey, American opera singer
• 1942 - Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998)
• 1942 - Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and coach
• 1943 - Conchata Ferrell, American actress
• 1944 - Rick Barry, American basketball player
• 1944 - Ken Howard, American actor
• 1945 - Count Björn Hamilton, Swedish politician
• 1946 - Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru
• 1946 - Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut
• 1947 - John Landecker, American disk jockey
• 1948 - Dianne Wiest, American actress
• 1948 - Gerry House, American radio personality
• 1948 - John Evan, British musician (Jethro Tull)
• 1948 - Milan Williams, American musician The Commodores (d. 2006)
• 1951 - Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
• 1951 - Matti Pellonpää, Finnish actor and musician (d. 1995)
• 1952 - Tony Brise, racing driver (d. 1975)
• 1953 - Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian politician (d. 1993)
• 1954 - Morris Mason, American convicted rapist and murderer (d. 1985)
• 1955 - John Alderdice, Northern Irish politician
• 1955 - Reba McEntire, American singer and actress
• 1956 - April Margera, Bam Margera's mother
• 1958 - Elisabeth Andreassen, Scandinavian singer
• 1959 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
• 1959 - Chris Myers, American sportscaster
• 1960 - Chris Barrie, British actor
• 1960 - José Maria Neves, Cape Verdeian politician
• 1961 - Byron Scott, American basketball player
• 1962 - Jure Franko, Slovenian skier
• 1965 - Steve Bull, English footballer
• 1968 - Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004)
• 1968 - Nasser Hussain, English cricketer
• 1968 - Jon Lee, British drummer (d. 2002)
• 1968 - Tim Lovejoy, British television presenter
• 1969 - Brett Ratner, American film director
• 1969 - Rodney Atkins, American country singer
• 1970 - Vince Vaughn, American actor
• 1970 - Michelle Gildernew, Irish republican politician
• 1971 - Mr. Cheeks, American rapper
• 1972 - Nick Frost, English comedian and actor
• 1972 - Keith Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
• 1973 - Eddie Fatu, Samoan professional wrestler
• 1973 - Matt Nathanson, American singer-songwriter
• 1974 - Mark King, English snooker player
• 1974 - Scott Mills, British radio disc jockey
• 1975 - Shanna Moakler, former beauty queen
• 1975 - Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer
• 1975 - Matt Reis, American soccer goalkeeper
• 1975 - Richard Kelly, American film director
• 1975 - Derek Hill, American racing driver
• 1976 - David Keuning, American guitar player (The Killers)
• 1977 - Devon, American porn actress
• 1977 - Erik Rasmussen, American ice hockey player
• 1979 - Park Chae-rim, South Korean actress
• 1980 - Stiliani Pilatou, Greek long jumper
• 1980 - Luke Walton, American basketball player
• 1981 - Julia Stiles, American actress
• 1981 - Edwar Ramirez, American baseball player
• 1982 - Sonia Agarwal, Indian actress
• 1982 - Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer
• 1983 - Ryan Ashington, English footballer
• 1984 - Christopher Samba, French-born footballer
• 1984 - Nikki Sanderson, British actress and model
• 1984 - Yordanos Abay, Ethiopian footballer
• 1986 - J-Kwon, American rapper
• 1986 - Barbora Strýcová, Czech tennis player
• 1988 - Lacey Turner, British soap actress
• 1989 - Marek Suchý, Czech footballer
• 1989 - Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer
• 1989 - Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
• 1991 - Amy Bruckner, American actress
• 1991 - Sophie Mullen, English actress

Deaths

• 193 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (b. 126)
• 1072 - Ordulf
• 1239 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
• 1285 - Pope Martin IV
• 1563 - Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
• 1566 - Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486)
• 1677 - Václav Hollar, Czech-born actor (b. 1607)
• 1687 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
• 1794 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
• 1850 - Gerard C. Brandon, American politician (b. 1788)
• 1866 - Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
• 1868 - James Thomas Brudenell, British military leader (b. 1797)
• 1870 - George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
• 1874 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)
• 1881 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)
• 1910 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
• 1910 - Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838)
• 1929 - Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)
• 1939 - Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
• 1941 - Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)
• 1942 - Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet, death in prison (b. 1910)
• 1943 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873)
• 1944 - Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist (b. 1869)
• 1946 - Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904)
• 1947 - Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
• 1949 - Grigoraş Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (b. 1889)
• 1953 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
• 1958 - W.C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
• 1965 - Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (b. 1885)
• 1965 - Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
• 1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
• 1974 - Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1905)
• 1976 - Arthur Crudup, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
• 1976 - Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
• 1978 - Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (d. 1941)
• 1979 - Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
• 1980 - Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer and actor (b. 1918)
• 1982 - William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
• 1985 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
• 1987 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (b. 1905)
• 1987 - Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)
• 1993 - Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
• 1995 - Hugh O'Connor, American actor (b. 1962)
• 1999 - Freaky Tah, American rapper (Lost Boyz) (b. 1971)
• 2000 - Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
• 2001 - Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (b. 1928)
• 2004 - Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
• 2004 - Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)
• 2005 - Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (b. 1916)
• 2006 - Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
• 2006 - Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist (b. 1912)
• 2006 - Kevin Pro Hart, Australian artist (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

• Slovakia, Czech Republic - Teachers' Day.

Liturgical feasts

• Saint Castor
• Saint Gontram (died 592)
• Saint Malchus
• Saint Priscus
• Saint Sixtus III

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada