Monday, March 28, 2005

Monday, March 28

This Day In History

  • 1797   Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine.
  • 1834   The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
  • 1854   Britain and France declared war on Russia during the Crimean War.
  • 1898   The Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen, and therefore could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act.
  • 1930   The cities of Constantinople and Angora changed names to Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey.
  • 1939   The Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco.
  • 1941   Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf drowned herself near her home in England at age 59.
  • 1943   Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died at age 70.
  • 1964   The most violent earthquake (9.2) in the United States struck Prince William Sound, Alaska.
  • 1969   Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, died in Washington at age 78.

  • 1979
      Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
  • 1987   Maria von Trapp, whose life inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''The Sound of Music,'' died in Morrisville, Vt., at age 82.
  • 2000   Supreme Court rules unanimously that an anonymous tip does not justify a stop-and-frisk action against a person.
  • 2002   The Arab League, meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, agreed on a peace plan that offered Israel normal relations in exchange for a full withdrawal from war-won lands and a Palestinian state.
Happy Birthday To
  • 1944   Ken Howard (actor: The White Shadow, The Thorn Birds, Country Girl, Oscar)

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