TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 28
845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving
1774 Britain passes the Coercive Act against rebellious Massachusetts.
1796 Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is 1st US-African church
1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine
1908 Automobile owners lobby Congress in support of a bill that calls for vehicle licensing and federal registration.
1917 The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded, Great Britain’s first official service women.
1921 President Warren Harding names William Howard Taft as chief justice of the United States.
1930 City of Constantinople name is changed to Istanbul
1933 Nazis order a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.
1941 English novelist Virginia Woolf throws herself into the River Ouse near her home in Sussex. Her body will not be found until April 18
1946 Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
1962 Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees
1963 Alfred Hitchcock’s movie The Birds is released
1979 A major accident occurs at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
1986 The U.S. Senate passes $100 million aid package for the Nicaraguan contras.
1990 President Bush awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal
2001 California Electricity Price Increase 46%
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