March 28: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 37 - Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
2. 1204 - The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.
3. 1802 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
4. 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.
5. 1910 - Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
6. 1930 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul andAnkara.
7. 1946 - Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
8. 1959 - The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the Government of Tibet.
9. 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.
10. 1990 - President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
11. Famous Birthdays: Fra Bartolomeo (Italian painter), Henry Schoolcraft (American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist), Corneille Heymans (Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate), Jerome Isaac Friedman (American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian-Spanish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate)

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