What Happened On This Day ? March 28
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1990
Jesse Owens receives the Congressional Gold Medal
The African American athlete dominated the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, which were held during the reign of Adolf Hitler's racist nazi regime.
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1979
Three Mile Island nuclear power plant experiences a partial meltdown and radioactive leak
The coolant leak was the worst commercial nuclear accident in the United States. A continuous string of nuclear disasters, such as Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986), and Fukushima (2011) continue to raise doubts about the security and environmental benefit of nuclear power.
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1969
Greek poet Giorgos Seferis speaks out against the military junta
The Nobel Prize laureate issued his now famous statement against Greece's repressive right-wing Regime of the Colonels on the BBC World Service.
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1963
Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds is released
The film about a swarm of birds wreaking havoc in Bodega Bay, California has become a classic of the horror movie genre.
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1910
The first seaplane in history takes off
French inventor Henri Fabre's Canard (Fabre Hydravion) was the first floatplane to take off from water under its own power. The first flight measured 457 meters.
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1986
Lady Gaga
American singer-songwriter, producer, actress
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1955
Reba McEntire
American singer-songwriter, producer, actress
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1946
Alejandro Toledo
Peruvian politician, 48th President of Peru
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1936
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian/Spanish journalist, author, Nobel Prize laureate
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1483
Raphael
Italian painter, architect
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2004
Peter Ustinov
English actor, director, producer, screenwriter
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1969
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American general, politician, 34th President of the United States
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1943
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian pianist, composer, conductor
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1941
Virginia Woolf
English author, critic
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1584
Ivan the Terrible
Russian Tsar