Today in History - March 28
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193 Mar 28,
Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), was assassinated.
(HFA, '96, p.26)(MC, 3/28/02)
1472 Mar 28, Fra Bartolommeo
(d.1517), Florentine Renaissance painter, was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Bartolommeo)
1483 Mar 28, Raphael, painter
(School of Athens), was born in Urbino, Italy. [see Apr 6]
(MC, 3/28/02)
1503 Mar 28, The 2nd Lithuanian
war with Russia (1500-1503) ended with a treaty. Lithuania lost a
fourth of its territory.
(LHC, 3/28/03)
1515 Mar 28, Theresa of Avila
(d.1582), Teresa de Jesus (St. Theresa), Spanish Carmelite nun, mystic
writer, saint, was born. She initiated reforms in the Order. She
co-founded with John of the Cross (1542-1591) the Order of Discalced
(barefoot) Carmelites. "Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth
thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man." "To wish to act like
angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly."
(CU, 6/87)(WUD, 1994, p.769)(AP, 12/8/97)(AP,
7/5/98)(MC, 3/28/02)
1556 Mar 28, Philip II, Charles
V's son, was crowned king of Spain. [see Sep 12]
(MC, 3/28/02)
1652 Mar 28, Samuel Sewall,
British colonial merchant and one of the Salem witch trial judges, was
born.
(HN, 3/28/01)
1660 Mar 28, Georg Ludwig, German
monarch of Hanover, King George I of Great Britain, was born.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1673 Mar 28, Adam Pijnacker (51),
Dutch landscape painter, etcher, was buried.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1687 Mar 28, Constantine Huygens
(90), diplomat, poet, composer (Bluebottles), died.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1737 Mar 28, Francesco Zanetti,
composer, was born.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1766 Mar 28, Joseph Weigl,
Austrian composer, conductor (Emmeline), was born.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1774 Mar 28, Britain passed the
Coercive Act against Massachusetts. [see May 20]
(HN, 3/28/98)
1794 Mar 28, Marie-Joseph de
Condorcet (b.1743), mathematician (Theory of Comets) and philosopher,
died as a fugitive from French Revolution Terrorists.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Condorcet)
1797 Mar 28, Nathaniel Briggs of
New Hampshire patented a washing machine.
(AP, 3/28/97)
1799 Mar 28, NY state abolished
slavery.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1804 Mar 28, Ohio passed law
restricting movement of Blacks. [see Jan 5]
(MC, 3/28/02)
1818 Mar 28, Wade Hampton
(d.1902), Confederate general, was born.
(HN, 3/28/98)(MC, 3/28/02)
1818 Mar 28, Giuseppe Antonio
Capuzzi (62), composer, died.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1821 Mar 28, Greek Independence
Day celebrates the liberation of Southern Greece from Turkish
domination.
(SFC, 3/28/98, p.A15)
1834 Mar 28, The US Senate voted
to censure Pres. Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the
Bank of the United States. The Senate declared that Pres. Andrew
Jackson: "in the last executive proceedings in relation to the public
revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by
the constitution and laws, but in derogation of both."
(AP, 3/28/97)
1837 Mar 28, Felix Mendelssohn
married Cecile Jeanrenaud.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1844 Mar 28, Jose Zorilla's "Don
Juan Tenorio," premiered in Madrid.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1845 Mar 28, Mexico dropped
diplomatic relations with US.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1854 Mar 28, During the Crimean
War, Britain and France declared war on Russia.
(AP, 3/28/97)
1859 Mar 28, 1st performance of
John Brahms' 1st Serenade for orchestra.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1862 Mar 28, Aristide Briand,
premier of France (1909-22), was born.
(HN, 3/28/98)
1862 Mar 28, US Civil War skirmish
at Bealeton Station, Virginia.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1864 Mar 28, A group of
Copperheads attacked Federal soldiers in Charleston Ill. Five were
killed and twenty wounded.
(HN, 3/28/99)
1868 Mar 28, Maxim Gorki, Russian
writer, was born. [see Mar 16]
(HN, 3/28/98)
1871 Mar 28, Willem Mengelberg,
conductor (NY Philharmonic 1922-30), was born in Utrecht, Neth.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1879 Mar 28, British mounted
troops under Colonel Henry Evelyn Wood went up Hlobane Mountain to
battle the Zulus—only to be surrounded by a 22,000-man impi (army).
Lieutenant Colonel Redvers Buller, received the Victoria Cross for his
gallantry during the difficult withdrawal of his troopers from the
mountain. Hlobane was the worst rout of British cavalry—and the last
Zulu victory—of the Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa.
(HN, 3/12/98)(HN, 3/28/99)
1881 Mar 28, "Greatest Show On
Earth" was formed by P.T. Barnum and James A. Bailey. [see 1879 and Mar
16,18, 1881]
(MC, 3/28/02)
1881 Mar 28, Modest Petrovich
Mussorgsky (42), composer, died. [see Mar 16]
(MC, 3/28/02)
1885 Mar 28, The Salvation Army
was officially organized in the U.S.
(HN, 3/28/98)
1886 Mar 28, Jarosla Novotny,
composer, was born.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1890 Mar 28, Paul Whiteman,
orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club), was born in Denver, Co.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1895 Mar 28, Spencer W. Kimball,
12th Prophet of the Mormon Church, was born.
(HN, 3/28/98)
1895 Mar 28, Major James McCudden,
the first RAF pilot to receive the Victoria Cross, was born.
(HN, 3/28/99)
1896 Mar 28, The opera "Andrea
Chenier," by Umberto Giordano, premiered in Milan, Italy.
(AP, 3/28/97)
1898 Mar 28, The Supreme Court
ruled in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that a child born in the United
States to Chinese immigrants was a US citizen.
(AP, 3/28/08)
1903 Mar 28, Rudolf Serkin,
pianist (Marlboro School of Music), was born in Eger, Bohemia.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1905 Mar 28, Marlin Perkins, TV
host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), was born in Carthage, Mo.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1907 Mar 28, Pavel Ivanovich
Blaramberg (65), composer, died.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1908 Mar 28, Automobile owners
lobbied Congress, supporting a bill that called for vehicle licensing
and federal registration.
(HN, 3/28/98)
1909 Mar 28, Nelson Algren
(d.1981, novelist (The Man with the Golden Arm, A Walk on the Wild
Side), was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Algren)
1910 Mar 28, Pres. Theodore
Roosevelt gave his “Law and Order in Egypt” speech at Cairo Univ.
Sheikh Ali Yusuf, Muslim cleric and popular columnist, had written an
open letter in praise of Roosevelt’s visit, but the president’s
imperious tone soon disappointed Egyptian hopes.
(www.mobipocket.com/EN/eBooks/eBookDetails.asp?BookID=86377)(Econ,
6/6/09, p.1910)
1910 Mar 28, The first seaplane
took off from water at Martinques, France.
(HN, 3/28/98)
1911 Mar 28, M.K. Ciurlionis
(b.1875), Lithuanian artist and composer, died.
(LC, 1998, p.12)
1914 Mar 28, Edmund Sixtus Muskie,
(Sen-D-Me), US Sec of State (1980), was born.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1917 Mar 28, The Women’s Army
Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was founded, these were Great Britain’s first
official service women.
(HN, 3/28/99)
1917 Mar 28, Puccini's "La
Rondine," premiered in Monte Carlo.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1917 Mar 28, Jews were expelled
from Tel Aviv and Jaffa by Turkish authorities.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1920 Mar 28, Dirk Bogarde, actor
(Death in Venice, Servant), was born in London, England.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1920 Mar 28, Thomas Masaryk was
elected president of Czechoslovakia.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1922 Mar 28, The 1st microfilm
device was introduced.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1927 Mar 28, Karl Prohaska (57),
composer, died.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1928 Mar 28, Zbigniew Brzezinski,
US national security advisor (Carter), was born in Warsaw.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1928 Mar 30, Petaluma farmers
shipped 58 carloads of eggs by train to SF. 50,000 cases contained some
18 million eggs.
(Ind, 4/26/03, p.5A)
1928 Mar 28, J.L. Rutledge,
Pacific Air Transport pilot, ran out of fuel and parachuted from his
plane near Orinda, Ca. The plane crashed nearby and he retrieved the
mail and delivered it to the Orinda post office.
(SFC, 3/28/03, p.E8)
1928 Mar 28, Giuseppe Ferrata
(63), composer, died.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1929 Mar 28, Frederick Exley,
American novelist (A Fan's Notes), was born.
(HN, 3/28/01)
1930 Mar 28, Jerome Isaac
Friedman, American physicist, was born. He helped confirm the existence
of quarks.
(HN, 3/28/01)
1930 Mar 28, The names of the
Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul
and Ankara.
(AP, 3/28/97) (HN, 3/28/98)
1933 Mar 28, Nazis ordered a ban
on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.
(HN, 3/28/98)
1933 Mar 28, German Reichstag
conferred dictatorial powers on Hitler.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1935 Mar 28, Goddard used
gyroscopes to control a rocket.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1936 Mar 28, Mario Vargas Llosa,
Peruvian novelist (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the
Andes), was born.
(HN, 3/28/01)
1938 Mar 28, The US Supreme Court
in Lovell v City of Griffin declared that it is unconstitutional to
require someone to get a government permit to engage in free speech.
(SFC, 4/18/09,
p.B2)(http://supreme.justia.com/us/303/444/case.html)
1938 Mar 28, Colonel Edward
Mandell House (b.1858), friend and advisor to Pres. Woodrow Wilson,
died in Texas. In 2006 Godfrey Hodgson authored “Woodrow Wilson’s Right
Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House.”
(www.library.yale.edu/un/house/chrono.htm)
1939 Mar 28, Philip Barry's
"Philadelphia Story," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1939 Mar 28, Clark Gable (d.1960)
and Carol Lombard (d.1942) stayed at the Arizona Oatman Hotel for their
honeymoon. [see Mar 29]
(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.T8)
1939 Mar 28, The Spanish Civil War
ended as Madrid fell to Francisco Franco. He emerged victorious and
became head of Fascist Spain ending the Spanish Civil War. France
executed more than 100,000 people who had opposed him. In 1982 Dan
Richardson wrote "Comintern Army," a historical work on the Spanish
Civil War. "The Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War" was
published in 1982. In 1991 Burnett Bolloten wrote "The Spanish Civil
War." In 2006 Antony Beevor authored “The Battle for Spain: The Spanish
Civil War 1936-1936.” This was an update of his 1982 account.
(SFC, 11/12/96, p.A12)(AP, 3/28/97)(HN,
3/28/98)(WSJ, 11/19/96, p.A22)(Econ, 6/24/06, p.97)
1941 Mar 28, Novelist and critic
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), born as Virginia Stephen, died in Lewes,
England. She feared a mental breakdown and threw herself into the River
Ouse near her home in Sussex. Her body was never found. She was an
English novelist, essayist and critic and wrote standing up. In 1997
“Art and Affection, A Life of Virginia Woolf” was published. In 1997 a
biography by Hermione Lee was published.
(WUD, 1994, p.1643)(SFC, 6/23/96, zone 1 p.2)(SFEM,
1/12/97, BR p.7)(AP, 3/28/97)(SFEC, 6/22/97, BR p.8)(HN, 3/28/01)
1941 Mar 28, The Italian fleet was
routed by the British at the Battle of Matapan.
(HN, 3/28/99)
1942 Mar 28, Samuel Ramey, bass
(La Scala, Met Opera), was born in Colby, Kansas.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1942 Mar 28, British naval forces
continued the raid on the Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire.
British Bomber Command launched an attack on the German city of Lubeck
with 234 RAF bombers.
(AP, 3/28/97)(HN, 3/28/98)(MC, 3/28/02)
1942 Mar 28, A British ship, the
HMS Capbeltown, a Lend-Lease American destroyer, which was specifically
rammed into a German occupied dry-dock in France, exploded, knocking
the area out of action for the German battleship Tirpitz.
(HN, 3/28/00)
1943 Mar 28, Sergei Vasilyevich
Rachmaninoff (70), Russian-born composer, died in Beverly Hills, Calif.
(AP, 3/28/97)
1945 Mar 28, Germany launched the
last of the V-2 rockets (buzz bomb) against England.
(HN, 3/28/99)
1949 Mar 28, Sec. of Defense James
Forrestal resigned due to a mental breakdown. He was worn out by his
futile efforts to bring about the unification of the armed services. He
was succeeded by Louis A. Johnson. Johnson proceeded to slash defense
expenses. He retired all but 5 aircraft carriers and dismantled the
first supercarrier.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forrestal)
1953 Mar 28, In the 7th Tony
Awards: Crucible and Wonderful Town won.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1953 Mar 28, Jim Thorpe (b.1887),
native American decathlon athlete (Olympics-gold-1912), died in Lomita,
California.
(AP,
3/28/02)(www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Jim_Thorpe)
1954 Mar 28, In the 8th Tony
Awards: Teahouse of the August Moon and Kismet won
(MC, 3/28/02)
1955 Mar 28, John Marshall Harlan
was sworn in to the U.S. Supreme Court.
(HN, 3/28/98)
1958 Mar 28, W.C. Handy, the
"Father of the Blues," died in New York at age 84.
(AP, 3/28/08)
1959 Mar 28, China announced the
dissolution of the Tibetan government.
(AP, 1/16/09)
1960 Mar 28, In Glasgow, Scotland,
a factory exploded burying 20 fire fighters.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1962 Mar 28, The U.S. Air Force
announced research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and
satellites.
(HN, 3/28/98)
1963 Mar 28, Alec A. Templeton
(52), composer, pianist (Alec Templeton Time), died.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1964 Mar 28, First pirate radio
station began to broadcast off the coast of England. Radio Caroline
debuted with a combination of rock music and lively disk jockey who's
patter played to a huge audience in Great Britain. British authorities,
tried unsuccessfully, to shut down the radio station ship. Radio
Caroline had become competition to the staid and usually dull British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). [see Dec 23]
(MC, 3/28/02)
1966 Mar 28, Navy corpsman Robert
R. Ingram was shot while with his platoon of marines on a ridge in
Quang Ngai province, South Vietnam. He continued providing medical
attention to his comrades with multiple wounds to himself. He was
awarded a belated Medal of Honor in 1998 due to lost paperwork.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.A3)
1967 Mar 28, UN Sec. General U
Thant made public proposals for peace in Vietnam.
(MC, 3/28/02)
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.
(HN, 3/28/98)
1968 Mar 28, In Memphis a riot
erupted during a protest march in support of striking sanitation
workers led by Martin Luther King. One African-American marcher was
killed and King urged calm as National Guard troops are called to
Memphis to restore order. King subsequently departed Memphis, but vowed
to return on April 4 to attend another march.
(SFC, 12/1/97, p.A3)(http://tinyurl.com/atrl3z)
1969 Mar 28, Dwight D. Eisenhower
(b.1890), the 34th president of the US, died at Walter Reed General
Hospital in Washington at age 78. In 2002 Carlo D’Este authored
"Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life." In 2007 Kasey S. Pipes authored “Ike’s
Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality.”
In 2007 Michael Korda authored “Ike: An American Hero.”
(AP, 3/28/97)(HN, 3/28/98)(WSJ, 7/12/02, p.W12)(WSJ,
3/7/07, p.D7)(SFC, 8/22/07, p.E1)
1970 Mar 28, Over 1,000 people
were killed when a major earthquake damaged 254 villages in Gediz,
Turkey. Estimates of the magnitude varied from 6.9 to 7.3.
(http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/events/1970_03_28.php)
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.
(http://tviv.org/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show)
1971 Mar 28, In the 25th Tony
Awards held in NYC “Sleuth” won for best play & “Company” won for
best musical.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25th_Tony_Awards)
1973 Mar 28, The Irish Navy caught
Joe Cahill (1920-2004) as he tried to smuggle 5 tons of Russian-made
explosives, guns and ammunition from Libya.
(SFC, 7/26/04, p.B4)(http://tinyurl.com/5lfwh2)
1974 Mar 28, In Romania the
position of President of the Republic was created especially for
Nicolae Ceausescu, who is then named President for life by Grand
National Assembly.
(www.ceausescu.org/ceausescu_texts/ceausescu_chronology.htm)
1977 Mar 28, In the 49th Academy
Awards "Rocky," Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway won.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49th_Academy_Awards)
1978 Mar 28, Laura Beyerly (16)
was last seen in the Los Altos, Ca., school parking lot. Her remains
were found a year later in the Santa Cruz County hills on property
belonging to the uncle of Scott B. Schultz. In 2006 police in Colorado
arrested Scott B. Schultz, a boy friend with whom she had broken up. In
2007 Schultz faced just one year in jail in a plea deal.
(SFC, 8/24/06, p.B1)(SFC, 9/2/06, p.B3)(SFC,
6/16/07, p.B1)
1979 Mar 28, America's worst
commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit Two reactor at the
Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa., almost to meltdown.
Thousands living near the plant left the area before the 12-day crisis
ended, during which time some radioactive water and gases were
released. A combination of mechanical and human factors allowed the
Unit 2 reactor to lose cooling water. It cost more than $1 billion and
more than a decade to remove the damaged nuclear fuel. A 1997 study
indicated increased cancer rates for people living downwind.
(TMC, 1994, p.1979)(SFC, 6/8/96, p.A2)(SFC, 2/24/96,
p.A3)(AP, 3/28/97) (HN, 3/28/98)(MC, 3/28/02)
1979 Mar 28, Michelle Triola
Marvin lost her palimony suit against actor Lee Marvin. She had sought
half of $3.6 million that Marvin earned during their 1964-1970
relationship. A judge awarded her $104,000 so that she could learn new
job skills. In 1981 a California State Court of Appeal rescinded the
award.
(SFC, 1/1/09,
p.B5)(http://law.jrank.org/pages/3295/Marvin-V-Marvin-Palimony-Suit-1979.html)
1980 Mar 28, Jesse Owens (b.1913),
(Oly-gold-36), died.
{Olympics, USA, Black History}
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens)
1982 Mar 28, Voters in El Salvador
went to the polls for a constituent assembly election that resulted in
victory for the Christian Democrats, led by President Jose Napoleon
Duarte.
(AP, 3/28/97)
1984 Mar 28, Zoe, the 1st
frozen-embryo child, was born in Melbourne, Australia. Scientists
reported the birth 2 weeks later.
(www.breedingbetterdogs.com/aging.html)
1985 Mar 28, Neil Simon's "Biloxi
Blues," premiered in NYC.
(http://tinyurl.com/ygdptw)
1985 Mar 28, Marc Chagall
(b.1887), Belarus-born French painter, died. In 2008 Jackie
Wullschlager authored “Chagall: A Biography.”
(www.artelino.com/articles/marc_chagall.asp)(Econ,
9/20/08, p.101)
1986 Mar 28, The U.S. Senate
passed a $100 million aid package for the Nicaraguan contras.
(HN, 3/28/98)
1986 Mar 28, Extremist Sikhs
killed 13 Hindus in Ludhiana, India.
(http://tinyurl.com/h5at2)
1987 Mar 28, Maria Augusta von
Trapp (b.1905), one of the Trapp Family Singers, died in Morrisville,
Vt. Her 1949 book “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers” was
fictionalized in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music
(1965).
(AP,
3/28/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_von_Trapp)
1988 Mar 28, Richard Gephardt
ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, following his
third-place finish in the Michigan caucuses.
(AP, 3/28/98)
1989 Mar 28, President Bush sent
three high-ranking officials to Alaska to "take a hard look" at the
Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound. '
(AP, 3/28/99)
1990 Mar 28, Jesse Owens
(1913-1980) was awarded (posthumously) the Congressional Gold Medal
from President George Bush.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens)
1990 Mar 28, British customs
officials announced they had foiled an attempt to supply Iraq with 40
American-made devices for triggering nuclear weapons, following an
18-month investigation by U.S. and British authorities.
(AP, 3/28/00)
1991 Mar 28, Former President
Reagan declared his support for the so-called “Brady Bill” requiring a
seven-day waiting period for handgun purchases.
(AP, 3/28/01)
1991 Mar 28, Fire seriously
damaged the US Embassy in Moscow.
(AP, 3/27/01)
1991 Mar 28, Tens of thousands of
supporters of Boris N. Yeltsin marched in Moscow in defiance of
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s ban on rallies.
(AP, 3/28/01)
1992 Mar 28, Democrats Bill
Clinton and Jerry Brown clashed over Brown's flat-tax proposal, with
Clinton charging the plan would hurt the poor, and Brown accusing
Clinton of inventing "another big lie."
(AP, 3/28/97)
1993 Mar 28, Francisco Garcia Diaz
discovered a type II supernova in M81 (NGC 3031).
(www.aavso.org/aavso/membership/nova.shtml)
1993 Mar 28, Chinese Premier Li
Peng won a second term.
(AP, 3/28/98)
1993 Mar 28, About 10,000 people
marched in Dublin, Ireland, to protest an IRA bombing that killed two
young boys.
(AP, 3/28/98)
1993 Mar 28, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin and his chief political rival, parliament speaker Ruslan
Khasbulatov, claimed victory after surviving attempts by the Russian
Congress to oust them.
(AP, 3/28/98)
1994 Mar 28, In Johannesburg,
South Africa, ANC guards killed more than 50 people in violence that
erupted during a march by Zulu nationalists.
(AP, 3/28/99)(WSJ, 3/29/96, p.A-1)
1994 Mar 28, Absurdist playwright
Eugene Ionesco died in Paris at age 81.
(AP, 3/28/99)
1995 Mar 28, Loomis guard Rick
Price was shot in the head and killed during an armored car robbery in
Sonoma, Ca. Bank robber William Crouch was also killed by a second
guard and alleged accomplice Joan Carrafa of Glen Ellen was later
arrested. She was convicted in 1996 for first degree murder.
(SFC, 5/25/96, p.A16)
1995 Mar 28, In Japan, Mitsubishi
Bank and the Bank of Tokyo agreed to a merger to create what was then
the world's largest bank.
(AP, 3/28/00)
1996 Mar 28, Congress passed the
line-item veto, giving the president power to cut government spending
by scrapping specific programs.
(AP, 3/28/97)
1996 Mar 28, The space shuttle
Atlantis astronauts said goodbye to the crew of Russia's space station
Mir and then flew away, leaving Shannon Lucid behind for a five-month
stay in orbit.
(AP, 3/28/97)
1996 Mar 28, Col. Gadhaffi of
Libya sent troops to put down unrest in northeastern Libya after a 400
prisoners, many including dissidents and Islamic militants, escaped
from prison last week.
(WSJ, 3/28/96,p.A-1)
1997 Mar 28, Robert Pinsky (56) of
Boston Univ. was named poet laureate of the United States by the
Library of Congress.
(SFC, 3/28/97, p.A7)
1997 Mar 28, A medical examiner
revealed that some members of the Heaven's Gate cult who'd committed
suicide in a California mansion had also been castrated in apparent
pursuit of the group's ideal of androgynous immortality.
(AP, 3/28/98)
1997 Mar 28, The UN Security
Council agreed to send a multinational force to Albania to protect the
delivery of humanitarian aid.
(SFC, 3/29/97, p.A10)
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.
(AP, 3/28/99)
1998 Mar 28, It was reported that
the US government conducted a series of “sub-critical” underground
explosions involving radioactive plutonium in a sealed chamber 960 feet
below ground at the Los Alamos National Lab.
(SFC, 3/28/98, p.A5)
1998 Mar 28, In France tens of
thousands marched in demonstrations against the right-wing National
Front, which made gains in recent regional elections.
(SFEC, 3/29/98, p.A12)
1998 Mar 28, In India the Hindu
Nationalist BJP won a confidence vote in parliament by a narrow margin,
274-261.
(SFEC, 3/29/98, p.A12)
1998 Mar 28, In Madagascar the
locust swarm was reported to have covered an estimated 24 million acres
in the south of the country.
(SFC, 3/28/98, p.A5)
1998 Mar 28, In Russia former
Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin announced his candidacy for the
presidential election in 2000.
(SFEC, 3/29/98, p.A12)
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.
(AP, 3/28/00)
1999 Mar 28, The Sea Launch Co.
successfully fired a Ukrainian and Russian built rocket from their
Odyssey, marine based, self-propelled platform.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A2)
1999 Mar 28, It was reported that
Amnesty Int'l. placed the US on its list of human rights violators on
the 1st day of the 1st week of the UN annual meeting on global
democratic rights in Geneva.
(SFEC, 3/28/99, p.A25)
1999 Mar 28, In SF the 15-story
Verducci Hall of California State Univ. on Lake Merced Drive was blown
up. It was to be replaced by a new apartment complex. The building,
which opened in 1969, was named after Joe Verducci, a former CSU
athletic director, and had been vacant since 1991.
(SFC, 3/17/99, p.A12)(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A1,5)
1999 Mar 28, In Cuba the Baltimore
Orioles beat a Cuban baseball all-star team 3:2 in 11 innings. A
rematch in Baltimore was scheduled for May 3.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 28, Ethiopia claimed to
have killed tens of thousands of Eritrean soldiers since Feb 23.
Eritrea made equally high and unconfirmed claims of enemy casualties.
(WSJ, 3/29/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 28, In Israel hundreds of
government and public service workers resumed their nationwide strike
against a decision to cap wage increases.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 28, In Japan the exploits
of Nasubi, a 23-year-old comedian, came to an end as his producers
revealed him naked to a studio audience. For over a year he had been
shown on weekly TV, without his knowledge, trying to survive on prizes
from magazine competitions. He never won any clothes.
(SFC, 4/1/99, p.E5)
1999 Mar 28, An American Stealth
F117 Nighthawk is shot down over northern Yugoslavia during the NATO
air strikes against Serbs attacking Kosovo.
(HN, 3/28/00)
1999 Mar 28, NATO broadened its
attacks on Yugoslavia to target Serb military forces in Kosovo in the
fifth straight night of airstrikes. UN officials reported that some
500,000 ethnic Albanians had fled Kosovo. NATO officials raised the
possibility of using ground troops in Yugoslavia as low-level strikes
against tanks began. It was feared that anger over the war would spill
over to Bosnia.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A1,10)(AP, 3/28/00)
1999 Mar 28, The notorious
Scorpions unit stormed the northern Kosovo town of Podujevo. In 2004 a
Belgrade court convicted Sasa Cvjetan, a member of the unit, of killing
14 ethnic Albanian civilians, mostly women and children. The verdict
was overturned but in 2005 a re-trial confirmed his guilt and 20-year
sentence. In 2008 four members of the Scorpions paramilitary group were
tried by a Belgrade court for allegedly gunning down 19 civilians in
Podujevo. On June 18, 2009, they were convicted sentenced to between 15
and 20 years in prison.
(AP, 6/17/05)(AP, 12/11/08)(AP,
6/18/09)(www.hlc-rdc.org/Saopstenja/1712.en.html)
1999 Mar 28, In Paraguay Pres.
Raul Cubas resigned and ended a week of political turmoil. Senator Luis
Gonzalez Macchi was sworn in as president. Gen'l. Lino Oviedo was
granted asylum in Argentina.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A9)(SFC, 3/30/99, p.F2)
2000 Mar 28, In a unanimous
ruling, the Supreme Court sharply curtailed police power to rely on
anonymous tips to stop and search people.
(AP, 3/28/01)
2000 Mar 28, The inflatable boat
of a UC Davis research group capsized off the coast of Baja California
and at least 3 people died.
(SFC, 3/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 28, In Tennga, Georgia, a
freight train collided with a school bus and 2 children were killed
with 5 critically injured.
(SFC, 3/29/00, p.A3)
2000 Mar 28, A tornado hit fort
Worth, Texas, and 4 people were killed with over 100 injured. It cut a
2-mile swath and inflicted $450 million in damages.
(SFC, 3/29/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 5/6/02, p.A1)
2000 Mar 28, Prof. Adam B. Ulam of
Harvard Univ., died at age 77. His 18 books included “Stalin: The Man
and His Era” (1973).
(SFC, 4/1/00, p.A26)
2000 Mar 28, Nine of 11 OPEC
nations voted to raise oil production by a total of 1.45 million
barrels a day.
(SFC, 3/29/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 28, In Niedersill,
Austria, a massive avalanche killed 11 people.
(SFC, 3/29/00, p.A15)
2000 Mar 28, Mohamad Hasan (69),
an Indonesian timber tycoon associated with former Pres. Suharto, was
arrested for fraud. He had directed the state sanctioned plywood
monopoly and controlled a forest mapping company. Hasan received a
6-year sentence and was jailed at Batu prison where he soon organized
the inmate obsidian polishing operations.
(WSJ, 3/29/00, p.A19)(WSJ, 8/13/03, p.A1)
2000 Mar 28, Jordan with US
intelligence help indicted 28 followers of Osama bin Laden for plotting
attacks against American tourists in Dec.
(SFC, 3/29/00, p.A14)
2000 Mar 28, In Rugazi, Uganda, 28
bodies were found under the floor of the home of Dominic Kataribabo,
leader of the Movement for the Restoration of Ten Commandments. This
brought the total dead to at least 591.
(SFC, 3/29/00, p.A15)
2001 Mar 28, The EU expressed
concern over Pres. Bush’s abandonment of the Kyoto Treaty for cutting
carbon dioxide emissions.
(WSJ, 3/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 28, The US Senate voted
to double the “hard money” contribution limits to candidates and
political parties.
(SFC, 3/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 28, A federal appeals
court in San Francisco threw out a record $107 million verdict against
anti-abortion activists, ruling that a Web site and wanted posters
branding abortion doctors “baby butchers” and criminals were protected
by the First Amendment.
(AP, 3/28/02)
2001 Mar 28, The authors of a book
on the Oklahoma City bombing revealed that during prison interviews,
Timothy McVeigh had shown no remorse for what happened, and called the
19 children who died “collateral damage.”
(AP, 3/28/02)
2001 Mar 28, Bosnian Croat
soldiers deserted by the hundreds following orders by the
self-proclaimed Croat National Assembly led by the nationalist Croat
Democratic Union. Many returned after the defense ministry warned that
they would forfeit wages and benefits.
(SFC, 3/29/01, p.A12)
2001 Mar 28, Two Israeli teenagers
were killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber. Israeli gunships followed
up with missile strikes at Arafat’s personal security forces (Force 17)
and at least 3 Palestinians were killed.
(SFC, 3/29/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 28, In Jordan an Arab
summit convened. Delegates had already approved a draft resolution for
the UN to allow Baghdad to fund the Palestinian uprising.
(WSJ, 3/27/01, p.A17)
2001 Mar 28, Macedonia began final
assaults on rebels near the Kosovo border as political talks were set
to begin.
(SFC, 3/29/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 28, In Mexico Zapatistas
told the Mexican legislature that the military phase of their struggle
was over and that political efforts would take precedence.
(SFC, 3/29/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 28, Russia’s Pres. Putin
replaced his defense and interior ministers. Sergei Ivanov was
appointed the new defense minister and Boris Gryzlov the new interior
minister.
(SFC, 3/29/01, p.A10)
2002 Mar 28, A US diplomat,
reportedly the CIA station chief, was pulled from Belgrade following
accusations that he was receiving military secrets.
(WSJ, 3/29/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 28, Walter Hewlett, a
dissident director of Hewlett-Packard Co., claimed HP used corporate
assets to entice and coerce certain financial institutions to vote for
the merger with Compaq Corp.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 28, US Air Force Staff
Sergeant Timothy Woodland was convicted in a Japanese court and
sentenced to nearly three years in prison for raping a woman on the
southern island of Okinawa.
(AP, 3/28/03)
2002 Mar 28, Matthew J. Bourgeois
(35), a Navy Seal from Tallahassee, was killed by a land mine in
Kandahar.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A9)
2002 Mar 28, A US Navy helicopter
crashed on Split Mountain in the Sequoia National Forest and 2 crew
members were killed.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A5)
2002 Mar 28, In Beirut the Arab
League committed to accepting Israel as a neighbor under conditions
that included the creation of an independent Palestinian state and
Israel's full withdrawal from war-won lands, an offer that Israel did
not accept.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A15)(AP,
3/28/03)(www.mideastweb.org/saudipeace.htm)
2002 Mar 28, A Hamas attack left 4
Israelis dead in a West Bank settlement. Arafat said he was ready to
call for a cease-fire.
(WSJ, 3/29/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 28, In Pakistan police in
Faisalabad and Lahore seized over 40 suspects in the Islamabad bombing.
At least 2 suspects were killed in Faisalabad. Abu Zubaydah, a top al
Qaeda commander, was among those arrested.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A10)(SSFC, 3/31/02, p.A17)(SFC,
4/2/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 28, Pope John Paul II
accepted the resignation of Julius Paetz, archbishop of Poznan, Poland,
due to a sex scandal and accusations of molesting young seminarians.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A7)
2003 Mar 28, In the 10th day of
Operation Iraqi Freedom the biggest bombs dropped on Baghdad so far,
two 4,700-pound "bunker busters," struck a communications tower. In the
south, Iraqi fighters defending the besieged city of Basra fired on
hundreds of civilians trying to flee. The British supply ship Sir
Galahad docked at the port of Umm Qasr. The Bush administration said
fighting might not be over for months. At least 58 people were killed
in a crowded market in northwest Baghdad by what local officials called
a coalition bombing. A US pilot was heard saying "I'm going to be
sick," then "we're in jail, dude," after firing on the British convoy
in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. Lance Corporal of Horse Matty Hull
was killed by American pilots.
(AP, 3/28/03)(SFC, 3/29/03, p.W1)(AP, 2/6/07)(Econ,
2/10/07, p.58)
2003 Mar 28, Chechen rebels killed
six Russian soldiers and two riot police.
(AP, 3/29/03)
2003 Mar 28, In Hong Kong at least
58 more people became sick with symptoms of SARS. 11 Hong Kong deaths
were on the disease.
(SFC, 3/29/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 28, In Jammu-Kashmir
suspected Islamic militants attacked and mutilated 5 Kashmiri Muslim
villagers, accusing them of being police informants.
(AP, 3/28/03)
2003 Mar 28, Japan's first spy
satellites were blasted into orbit, causing an angry North Korea to
warn the move could spark an arms race in the region.
(AP, 3/28/03)
2003 Mar 28, The UN Security
Council voted unanimously to extend the UN assistance mission in
Afghanistan for a year.
(AP, 3/28/03)
2004 Mar 28, Art James (74), TV
game show host died in Palm Springs, Calif.
(AP, 3/28/05)
2004 Mar 28, Sir Peter Ustinov (b.
Apr 16, 1921), a brilliant wit and mimic who won two Oscars for an
acting career that ranged from the evil Nero in "Quo Vadis" to the
quirky Agatha Christie detective Hercule Poirot, died at age 82 in
Switzerland.
(AP, 3/29/04)
2004 Mar 28, A powerful storm,
dubbed Catarina, lashed Brazil's southern coast, damaging thousands of
homes, killing two people.
(AP, 3/29/04)
2004 Mar 28, In Kinshasa, Congo,
government forces battled attackers at military installations and
television headquarters. Diplomats called it a coup attempt against
Pres. Joseph Kabila.
(AP, 3/28/04)
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.
(AP, 3/28/04)(AP, 3/29/04)
2004 Mar 28, Georgians voted in
the country's third election in less than six months. Supporters of
President Mikhail Saakashvili swept to victory in Georgia's
parliamentary election, according to early results.
(AP, 3/28/04)(AP, 3/29/04)
2004 Mar 28, Guadeloupe's leader
conceded defeat in regional elections that pushed her conservative
party out of power for the first time in 12 years, a loss seen as
public backlash toward moves to win greater autonomy from Paris.
(AP, 3/29/04)
2004 Mar 28, In Iraq US soldiers
in the northern city of Mosul shot and killed four rebels suspected of
involvement in attacks in the region. Gunmen in Mosul killed 2 British
and Canadian electrical engineers. Coalition forces closed Shiite
cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's newspaper, claiming it incited anti-US
violence.
(AP, 3/29/04)(WSJ, 4/1/04, p.A10)(WSJ, 4/19/04,
p.A14)
2004 Mar 28, Israel's state
attorney officially recommended that PM Ariel Sharon be indicted for
bribe-taking.
(AP, 3/28/04)
2004 Mar 28, The Thailand
government said violence in the Muslim-dominated south was at a
"crucial stage" and pledged tougher measures, after a bombing in the
region injured 29 people, including 10 Malaysian tourists.
(AP, 3/28/04)
2004 Mar 28, Premier Recep Tayyip
Erdogan's Islamic-rooted party appeared headed for a resounding victory
in Turkey's local elections.
(AP, 3/28/04)
2004 Mar 28, Clashes between
supporters of Zimbabwe's ruling party and the opposition killed one
person and wounded at least 11 during the second day of polling in a
parliamentary by-election.
(AP, 3/29/04)
2004 Mar 28-29, In Uzbekistan 2
suicide bombings, attacks on police and an explosion at an terrorist
bomb-making factory in Kakhramon killed 19 people and injured 26. The
explosion led to 4 days of violence that left at least 47 people dead
in including 33 militants.
(AP, 3/29/04)(SSFC, 4/4/04, p.A22)
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.
(AP, 3/28/06)
2005 Mar 28, Hank Greenberg,
former longtime CEO of American Int’l. Group (AIG), announced his
retirement. He was ousted as CEO 2 weeks earlier.
(WSJ, 3/29/05, p.C1)
2005 Mar 28, It was reported that
a consortium of 7 private equity firms purchased SunGard Data systems
for $11.3 billion in the biggest buyout since 1989.
(Econ, 4/2/05, p.66)
2005 Mar 28, Hu Xiaoliam was
appointed the 1st female head of China’s State Administration of
Foreign Exchange (SAFE). The regulator will oversee new trading and
price quotes in 8 currency pairs through the interbank China foreign
Exchange Trade System (CFETS).
(Econ, 4/2/05, p.68)
2005 Mar 28, In Haiti gunmen with
assault rifles ambushed a group of police in Port-au-Prince, spraying
their car with bullets in a bold daylight attack that killed 2 officers
and a driver.
(AP, 3/28/05)
2005 Mar 28, An 8.7 earthquake
occurred in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, in what technically was
considered an aftershock to the Dec 26 quake. At least 330 people were
killed in collapsed buildings on Nias Island. No major tsunami
followed. The UN raised its toll to 624. The government estimated
400-500 were killed.
(SFC, 3/29/05, p.A1)(AP, 3/31/05)(Econ, 4/2/05, p.37)
2005 Mar 28, In Iraq 3 Romanian
journalists and their translator were abducted near their Baghdad
hotel. The journalists were freed by US forces on May 22.
(AP, 3/29/05)(SSFC, 10/15/06, p.A20)
2005 Mar 28, Ireland enacted a law
outlawing English on road signs and official maps on much of the
nation’s western coast, where many people speak Gaelic.
(SFC, 3/29/05, p.A2)
2005 Mar 28, Israeli troops raided
the West Bank town of Jenin, carrying out house-to-house searches and
arresting eight Palestinians.
(AP, 3/28/05)
2005 Mar 28, It was reported that
Japanese consumer prices had fallen in February at their fastest pace
in nearly 2 years. Japan’s deflation was now almost 6 years old. The
Ministry of Finance said government debt hit a new record high of
$7.062 trillion as of the end of Dec.
(WSJ, 3/28/05, p.A14)
2005 Mar 28, Interim leader
Kurmanbek Bakiyev recognized Kyrgyzstan's new parliament as legitimate
even though it was chosen in disputed elections, a move designed to end
a struggle between the rival legislatures.
(AP, 3/28/05)
2005 Mar 28, Tafa Balogun,
Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, was arrested. He was later
charged with numerous counts including embezzling $93 million from
police funds.
(Econ, 8/20/05, p.37)(www.efccnigeria.org/)
2005 Mar 28, In Peshawar,
Pakistan, thousands of opposition activists chanted "Death to
dictatorship!" in the latest demonstration against Pres. Gen. Pervez
Musharraf's grip on power.
(AP, 3/28/05)
2005 Mar 28, Pres. Vladimir Putin
ordered the Russian government to draft legal reforms that would close
the book on shady privatization deals of the 1990s and streamline tax
collection.
(AP, 3/28/05)
2005 Mar 28, Sudanese authorities
said they had detained 14 people on suspicion of crimes, including rape
and murder, committed in the war-ravaged western region of Darfur.
(AFP, 3/28/05)
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.
(AP, 3/28/06)
2006 Mar 28, The US Federal
Reserve under new chairman Ben Bernanke raised its key federal funds
rate by a quarter percentage point to 4.75%.
(SFC, 3/29/06, p.C1)
2006 Mar 28, Caspar W. Weinberger
(b.1917), former US defense secretary under Pres. Reagan, died.
(SFC, 3/29/06, p.B9)(Econ, 4/1/06, p.71)
2006 Mar 28, In southern
Afghanistan a roadside bomb blew up a vehicle carrying Afghan army
soldiers, killing six of them.
(AP, 3/28/06)
2006 Mar 28, Rights advocates said
some 20 detained opposition supporters have gone on hunger strike to
protest conditions at a Belarusian jail holding 400 opposition
supporters, as authorities continued to crackdown on dissent following
the disputed March 19 election.
(AP, 3/28/06)
2006 Mar 28, In China new
regulations viewed on the Health Ministry's Web site forbade the buying
and selling of organs and require that donors give written permission
for their organs to be transplanted.
(AP, 3/28/06)
2006 Mar 28, Some 1-3 million
protesters poured onto France's streets and absent workers hobbled
transport services in the first nationwide strike against a new labor
law for youths, increasing pressure on the embattled PM to withdraw the
contested measure.
(AP, 3/28/06)(Econ, 4/1/06, p.22)
2006 Mar 28, It was reported that
France produced 78% of its electricity from nuclear power.
(WSJ, 3/28/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 28, The German state of
Bavaria announced a ban on the use of cell phones in schools to prevent
students from viewing images of pornography and extreme violence.
(AP, 3/28/06)
2006 Mar 28, Three groups of
gunmen kidnapped 24 Iraqis from a currency exchange and two electronics
stores in Baghdad, while a car bomb exploded south of the capital as
police exchanged fire with two suicide bombers at a police station,
wounding a dozen people. Two US soldiers were killed and three wounded
in two attacks outside Baghdad.
(AP, 3/28/06)(AP, 3/29/06)
2006 Mar 28, Israelis voted in an
election billed as a referendum on the future of the West Bank, with
the leading candidate, acting PM Ehud Olmert, promising to pull back
from most of the territory and draw Israel's final borders by 2010. The
Kadima Party won the parliamentary elections. Two Israelis were killed
in an explosion in southern Israel near the Gaza Strip border.
(AP, 3/28/06)(AP, 3/28/07)
2006 Mar 28, President Anote Tong
of the Republic of Kiribati announced the formation of the world's
third-largest marine reserve at the 8th UN conference on the Convention
on Biological Diversity under way this week in Brazil.
(Reuters, 3/28/06)
2006 Mar 28, Officials said former
Liberian President Charles Taylor disappeared from his Nigerian haven,
days after his hosts agreed to transfer him to a war crimes tribunal
for the murder, rape and maiming of more than a half-million Africans.
Taylor was arrested trying to cross the border into Cameroon. He then
was flown back to Liberia.
(AP, 3/28/06)(AP, 3/29/06)
2006 Mar 28, A Mexican judge
ordered an Argentine journalist to remove references to one of the
first lady's sons in a book that claims he benefited financially from
his family's political connections. The book "Cronicas Malditas," or
roughly "Accursed Chronicles" (2005), alleged that two of Sahagun's
three sons, principally Manuel Bribiesca, had used their connections to
get preferential treatment on federal government work contracts during
the administration of President Vicente Fox, which began in December
2000.
(AP, 3/28/06)
2006 Mar 28, The Palestinian
parliament overwhelming approved the new Hamas Cabinet, setting the
stage for the new administration to take office later this week.
(AP, 3/28/06)
2006 Mar 28, In South Korea
prosecutors formally arrested the top executive of an affiliate of
Hyundai Motor Co. in an investigation into suspicions that South
Korea's largest carmaker created slush funds through its 39
subsidiaries for bribery.
(AP, 3/28/06)(WSJ, 4/8/06, p.1)
2006 Mar 28, Spain’s ENCE said it
will suspend construction of a controversial pulp mill in Uruguay to
allow Argentina and Uruguay to resolved their differences over the
environmental impact of the project. In October ENCE announced that it
was abandoning the project.
(FT, 3/29/06, p.8)(Econ, 10/7/06, p.46)
2006 Mar 28, In Sudan Arab League
Secretary-General Amr Moussa called on Arab leaders to move toward a
goal of "entering the nuclear club" and making use of atomic energy for
peaceful purposes. The absence of at least 10 heads of state, including
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah,
raised concerns of a lackluster summit.
(AP, 3/28/06)
2006 Mar 28, In Sudan Arab leaders
promised to fund African soldiers in Darfur from October this year,
despite international pressure to allow the United Nations to take over
the mission.
(Reuters, 3/28/06)
2006 Mar 28, Thousands of Kurdish
protesters rampaged after funerals for 4 Kurdish PKK guerrillas killed
by Turkish troops. They hurled firebombs at armored police vehicles and
smashed windows at a police station. 2 Kurds were killed and 40 people
injured.
(AP, 3/29/06)(Econ, 4/15/06, p.54)
2006 Mar 28, Ukraine President
Viktor Yushchenko met separately with both his estranged Orange
Revolution ally and an old pro-Moscow adversary as he sought to form a
coalition after most voters rejected his party in weekend parliamentary
elections.
(AP, 3/28/06)
2007 Mar 28, Circuit City, a US
electronics retailer, fired 3,400 of its highest paid hourly workers
and planned to hire replacements wiling to work for less. The laid-off
workers were to get a severance package and a chance to reapply for
their former jobs at lower pay.
(SFC, 3/29/07, p.C3)
2007 Mar 28, The California Dept.
of Agriculture ordered an intrastate quarantine on plants to fight the
infestation of light brown apple moths. On May 2 the US Dept. of
Agriculture ordered similar restrictions.
(SFC, 5/4/07, p.C3)
2007 Mar 28, Discount retailer TJX
Cos. revealed that information from at least 45.7 million credit and
debit cards was stolen over an 18-month period. The breach was
initially disclosed in January.
(AP, 3/29/07)
2007 Mar 28, Jazz musician Tony
Scott (85), a clarinetist, composer and arranger who worked with such
greats as Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker, died in Rome.
(AP, 4/1/07)
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.
(AP, 3/28/07)
2007 Mar 28, In Australia a
passenger ferry plowed into a pleasure boat under Sydney's iconic
Harbor Bridge, killing at least 3 people, including two professional
figure skating judges.
(AP, 3/29/07)
2007 Mar 28, Retired Gurkha
soldiers staged a mass protest in London over Britain's refusal to give
them full pensions and other rights.
(AP, 3/28/07)
2007 Mar 28, Briton Richard Rogers
(73), the famed architect of a series of iconic buildings all over the
world, was announced winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
(AFP, 3/29/07)
2007 Mar 28, In northern China an
underground gas explosion killed 26 miners in a coal mine in Linfen
city, Shanxi province. 6 workers were trapped underground after a
subway construction site for the 2008 Beijing Olympics collapsed. Hopes
for their survival were slim.
(AP, 3/29/07)
2007 Mar 28, Ecuador's highest
electoral court fired a judge who tried to return half the country's
legislators to their posts as a political crisis over the rewriting of
the country's constitution deepened.
(AP, 3/29/07)
2007 Mar 28, In France an official
at a Paris maternity hospital said Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre is the
French nun whose testimony of a mystery cure from Parkinson's disease
will likely be accepted as the miracle the Vatican needs to beatify
Pope John Paul II.
(AP, 3/28/07)
2007 Mar 28, Guinean leaders
agreed on the formation of a new government in a bid to end months of
unrest and political crisis.
(AFP, 3/28/07)
2007 Mar 28, Iran aired a video of
15 captured British sailors and marines; the lone female captive, shown
in a white tunic and a black head scarf, said the British boats had
"trespassed." The crew members were released April 4, 2007.
(AP, 3/28/08)
2007 Mar 28, In Iraq Shiite
militants and police enraged by massive truck bombings in the
northwestern town of Tal Afar went on a revenge spree against Sunni
residents there, killing as many as 60 people. Suicide bombers
detonated explosives on trucks carrying highly toxic chlorine in
Fallujah, wounding about 15 US and Iraqi security forces.
(AP, 3/28/07)
2007 Mar 28, Hundreds of Israeli
police in riot gear dragged squatters from the ruins of the former
Homesh settlement, ending a three-day showdown between the government
and settlers trying to re-establish the settlement. Homesh was one of
four settlements in the northern West Bank dismantled in 2005.
(AP, 3/28/07)
2007 Mar 28, A Japanese man was
sentenced to death for murdering three people he lured through a
suicide Web site by offering to die with them.
(AP, 3/28/07)
2007 Mar 28, In Tank, Pakistan,
hundreds of militants fired rockets, killed one security official and
kidnapped a school principal where police had slain two men accused of
recruiting students for suicide attacks.
(AP, 3/28/07)
2007 Mar 28, Unidentified gunmen
shot at a Hamas militant leader and his family during a car chase
through Gaza City, injuring five people, including bystanders and a
child. A small group of Arab lesbians quietly defied Islamist
protesters and a social taboo to gather at a rare public conference in
Haifa, Israeli. It was organized by Aswat, an organization for Arab
lesbians with members in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
(AP, 3/28/07)
2007 Mar 28, The health department
of Philippines said HIV/AIDS is ravaging the large overseas work force,
posing a long-term threat to one of Manila's key sources of foreign
exchange. Jun Ducat (56), a Manila day-care center owner armed with
grenades and guns, held more than 30 youngsters and teachers hostage on
a bus, then freed them after a 10-hour standoff that he used to
denounce corruption and demand better lives for impoverished children.
(AFP,
3/28/07)(http://english.people.com.cn/200703/29/eng20070329_362055.html)
2007 Mar 28, Russia's scientific
elite, in a rare show of disobedience to the Kremlin, voted against a
government-proposed charter that would have transferred control of the
historically independent Academy of Sciences to the state.
(AP, 3/28/07)
2007 Mar 28, Sudan and the UN
signed an agreement to guarantee humanitarian access to refugees in
Darfur. UN chief Ban Ki-moon tried to persuade President Omar al-Bashir
to accept UN peacekeepers in Darfur, hours after al-Bashir flatly
rejected the deployment.
(AP, 3/28/07)
2007 Mar 28, In Tanzania 14
Southern African leaders meet for a two-day extraordinary summit on
economic and political regional woes spurred by crises in Zimbabwe and
the Democratic Republic of Congo.
(AFP, 3/28/07)
2007 Mar 28, Police stormed the
offices of Zimbabwe's main opposition party and arrested leader Morgan
Tsvangirai, hours before he planned to talk to reporters about a wave
of political violence that had left him briefly hospitalized.
Tsvangirai was released after several hours.
(AP, 3/28/07)(AP, 3/29/07)
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.
(AP, 3/29/08)
2008 Mar 28, The grey wolf of the
northern Rocky Mountains was taken off the federal protection list
after reaching a population of some 1,500 in the greater Yellowstone
region. Wolves were reintroduced in 1995 after disappearing from the
area in 1926. On July 18 a judge restored protection for the wolves in
Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, derailing plans for public wolf hunts this
fall. On Sep 29 a federal court overturned the Bush administration’s
decision to remove gray wolves from the endangered species list in the
Great lakes region.
(Econ, 3/29/08, p.44)(SFC, 7/19/08, p.A4)(WSJ,
9/30/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 28, Helen Yglesias (92),
American novelist and editor, died. Her first book: “How she Died”
(1972), tells of Mary Moody Schwartz, the daughter of a Communist
convicted of spying for the Soviets in the 1930s.
(SFC, 4/8/08, p.B5)
2008 Mar 28, British Airways Plc
cancelled a fifth of flights from its new $8.6 billion terminal at
London's Heathrow airport as chaos from its shambolic opening spilled
into a second day.
(AP, 3/28/08)
2008 Mar 28, Jean-Jacques
Demafouth, an exiled former defense minister in the Central African
Republic, said that he had been elected head of the main rebel group
and would lead it into peace talks. The UN said rebel fighters attacked
CAR villages between Feb 9 and Mar 10 raping women and taking 150
hostages, including 55 children.
(AFP, 3/28/08)
2008 Mar 28, In Chile 5 youths,
aged 14-20, attacked 9 German soldiers and took them hostage in the
port city of Iquique. One soldier escaped and police quickly surrounded
the house and arrested four suspects after a shootout.
(AP, 3/29/08)
2008 Mar 28, China allowed the
first foreign diplomats to visit Tibet following deadly riots, as
Germany joined some other European nations in announcing its leader
would skip the Olympics opening. Police closed off Lhasa's Muslim
quarter, two weeks after Tibetan rioters burned down the city's mosque
during the largest anti-Chinese protests in nearly two decades.
(AP, 3/28/08)
2008 Mar 28, Mohamed Bacar, the
rebel leader of the Comoros island of Anjouan, arrived in Reunion to an
uncertain future, two days after his ouster by Comoran and African
Union forces.
(AP, 3/28/08)
2008 Mar 28, President Raul
Castro's government said it is allowing cell phones for ordinary
Cubans, a luxury previously reserved for those who worked for foreign
firms or held key posts with the communist-run state.
(AP, 3/28/08)
2008 Mar 28, A commerce ministry
official said Egypt is to suspend rice exports for six months to try to
meet the demands of its own people hit by soaring food prices. Hundreds
of residents of the ancient city of Luxor clashed with riot police
during a protest against government attempts to move them to make room
for an open-air museum free of modern buildings.
(AP, 3/28/08)(AP, 3/29/08)
2008 Mar 28, Indonesian police
said they were investigating the deaths over the last 2 weeks of 21
people who drank a concoction labeled an herbal remedy.
(AP, 3/28/08)
2008 Mar 28, PM Nouri al-Maliki's
office says the Iraqi government has given residents of Basra until
April 8 to turn over "heavy and medium-size weapons" in return for a
reward. US warplanes carried out at least two airstrikes overnight in
Basra for the first time since clashes between Shiite militias and
Iraqi security forces erupted this week. A US warplane strafed snipers
in the southern city of Basra, killing at least 16 suspected militants
after Iraqi troops came under heavy fire. Shiite militants also clashed
with government forces for a fourth day in Iraq's oil-rich south and
sporadic fighting broke out in Baghdad. A US helicopter also fired a
Hellfire missile during fighting in the Baghdad's militia stronghold of
Sadr City, killing four gunmen. Iraqi police and hospital officials in
Sadr City said 5 civilians were killed and 4 others wounded in the
attack. A US air assault in the Kazamiyah neighborhood, west of Sadr
City, killed 10 militants. At least 12 militia fighters were killed and
7 others wounded in fighting in Mahmoudiya. Fierce fighting in the
Mahdi Army stronghold of Nasiriyah killed at least 4 people. 2 Iraqi
security forces were killed and 3 wounded in Kut.
(AP, 3/28/08)(AP, 3/29/08)(AP, 3/30/08)
2008 Mar 28, Jordan, Iraq and
Yemen announced at the last minute that their top leaders will not
attend this weekend's Arab summit in Damascus.
(AP, 3/28/08)
2008 Mar 28, North Korea
test-fired a barrage of short-range missiles in apparent response to
the new South Korean government's tougher stance on Pyongyang.
(AP, 3/28/08)
2008 Mar 28, Palestinian medics
say a Palestinian man was killed by Israeli army fire as he approached
Gaza's border fence with Israel. The Israeli military said the man was
armed and hurled a grenade at forces close to the fence.
(AP, 3/29/08)
2008 Mar 28, South Africa launched
a four million dollar program to track down tuberculosis patients who
have defaulted treatment, leading to resistant strains of the illness.
(AP, 3/28/08)
2008 Mar 28, In northeastern
Tanzania 75 miners were missing and believed to have died in mines
following heavy rains.
(AP, 3/29/08)
2008 Mar 28, Turkish warplanes hit
Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq.
(AP, 3/29/08)
2008 Mar 28, Combat helicopters
and F-16 fighter jets opened fire at a clandestine airstrip in
Venezuela's remote southern plains as part of a government counter-drug
effort. Army Gen. Jesus Gonzalez told state television that so far this
year, the military has demolished 67 airstrips used by drug traffickers
to smuggle cocaine from neighboring Colombia to the United States and
Europe. Another 90 are to be destroyed next week.
(AP, 3/28/08)
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