TODAY HISTORY LESSON: MARCH 28
364 Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor
1774 Britain passes the Coercive Act against rebellious Massachusetts.
1797 Nathaniel Briggs patented a washing machine.
1804 Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks
1834 Senate censure President Jackson for taking federal deposits from Bank of US
1854 Britain and France declare war on Russia during the Crimean War
1866 1st ambulance goes into service
1885 The Salvation Army is officially organized in the United States.
1898 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the U.S. to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen. This meant that they could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act.
1908 Automobile owners lobby Congress in support of a bill that calls for vehicle licensing and federal registration.
1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities
1917 The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded, Great Britain’s first official service women.
1933 Nazis order a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.
1938 In Italy, psychiatrists demonstrated the use of electric-shock therapy for treatment of certain mental illnesses
1946 Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
1962 The U.S. Air Force announces research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and satellites.
1963 Alfred Hitchcock’s movie The Birds is released
1964 The most violent earthquake (9.2) in the United States struck Prince William Sound, Alaska.
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.
1986 More than 6,000 radio stations of all format varieties played “We are the World” simultaneously at 10:15 a.m. EST.
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.
1990 In Britain, a joint Anglo-U.S. “sting” operation ended with the seizure of 40 capacitors, which can be used in the trigger mechanism of a nuclear weapon.
1999 Paraguay’s President Raúl Cubas Grau resigned after protests inspired by the assassination of Vice-President Luis María Argaña on March 23. The nation’s Congress had accused Cubas and his political associate, Gen. Lino César Oviedo, for Cubas’ murder. Senate President Luis González Macchi took office as Paraguay’s new chief executive.
2000 Supreme Court rules unanimously that an anonymous tip does not justify a stop-and-frisk action against a person.
2008 President Bush has said that the U.S. economy is not going into a recession, but is following a ‘slowdown.’ He has told people that May’s tax measures have been designed to get consumers shopping again. According to the US National Bureau of Economic Research, the United States had already entered the Great Recession by the time this statement was made and the official dates were from December of 2007 to June of 2009
2010 Israel seals off the West Bank from midnight until midnight on 6 April during its traditional Passover biblical religious holiday.
2012 The United States has suspended plans to send food aid to North Korea after the country violated a missile test moratorium by announcing their plans for a rocket launch in the middle of April.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
