This Day in History

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March 28

37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.

1566 – The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta's capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.

1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.

1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.

1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.

1946 – Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.

1964 - Madame Tussauds, London unveiled the wax works images of The Beatles, the first pop stars to be honoured.

1979 – A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.

1982 - David Crosby was arrested after crashing his car on the San Diego Highway. Police also found cocaine and a pistol in the Crosby Stills & Nash stars car. When the police asked Crosby why he carried the gun, his reply was, "John Lennon".

1990 – United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal. "And now, for my next impression, Jesse Owens!"

1992, Over a $100,000 (£58,800) worth of damage was caused at The Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, California, when Ozzy Osbourne invited the first two rows of the audience on stage. Several other rows took up the offer and the band was forced to exit the stage.

2000 - Jimmy Page accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages from a magazine which claimed he had caused or contributed to the death of his Led Zeppelin bandmate John Bonham. Page's solicitor, Norman Chapman, told High Court Judge Mr Justice Morland that the feature in Ministry magazine printed in 1999 claimed Page was more concerned with keeping vomit off his bed than saving his friend's life, and that he stood over him wearing Satanic robes and performing a useless spell.

2003 – In a friendly fire incident, two American A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing one soldier.

Births

1836 – Frederick Pabst (yeah, that Pabst), 1868 – Maxim Gorky, 1905 – Marlin Perkins, 1910 – Jimmie Dodd, 1914 – Edmund Muskie, 1921 – Dirk Bogarde, 1928 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1944 – Ken Howard, 1948 – Dianne Wiest, 1948 – Milan Williams(The Commodores), 1955 – Reba McEntire♪ ♫, 1959 – Chris Myers, 1966 – Cheryl James♪ ♫('Salt' of Salt-n-Pepa), 1969 – Rodney Atkins♪ ♫, 1970 – Vince Vaughn, 1981 – Julia Stiles, 1986 – Lady Gaga♪ ♫

Deaths

1584 – Ivan the Terrible, 1687 – Constantijn Huygens♪ ♫, 1941 – Virginia Woolf, 1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff♪ ♫, 1953 – Jim Thorpe, 1958 – W. C. Handy♪ ♫, 1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th POTUS), 1974 - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup♪ ♫, 1974 – Dorothy Fields♪ ♫(songwriter, wrote "Sunny Side Of The Street", "I'm In The Mood For Love"), 1980 – Dick Haymes, 1985 – Marc Chagall, 1987 – Maria von Trapp♪ ♫(Just how many damn von Trapps were there anyway?!), 2004 – Peter Ustinov, 2006 – Caspar Weinberger, 2009 – Maurice Jarre♪ ♫, 2010 – June Havoc, 2013 – Robert Zildjian (founded Sabian cymbals), 2016 – James Noble