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.
1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine
1834 The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
1854 Britain and France declare war on Russia.
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 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 Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara respectively.
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.
1950 Yugoslavia and the United States made an effort to pave the way for restrictions of travel to Yugoslavia to be cleared. The issue of dual nationality was discussed as well.
1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower dies at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, D.C.
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.
1999 An American Stealth F117 Nighthawk is shot down over northern Yugoslavia during NATO air strikes.
2000 Supreme Court rules unanimously that an anonymous tip does not justify a stop-and-frisk action against a person.
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.
** history.net, onthisday.com, infoplease.com, timeanddate.com, thepeoplehistory.com, on-this-day.com **
