March 28
1797 - Nathaniel Biggs 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 U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, ruled 6-2 that Wong, who was born in the United States to Chinese immigrants, was an American citizen.
1899 - August Busch, the American businessman who built Anheuser-Busch into the world's largest brewery, was born.
1930 - The Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora changed their names to Istanbul and Ankara, respectively.
1939 - The Spanish Civil War ended.
1941 - Author Virginia Woolf drowned herself at her home in England at age 59.
1942 - During World War II, British naval forces staged a successful raid on the Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire in Operation Chariot, destroying the only dry dock on the Atlantic coast capable of repairing the German battleship Tirpitz.
1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, die in Washington, D.C. at age 78.
1977 - “Rocky” won best picture at the 49th Academy Awards; Peter Finch was honored posthumously as best actor for “Network” while his co-star, Faye Dunaway, was recognized as best actress.
1978 - In Stump v. Sparkman, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld, 5-3, the judicial immunity of an Indiana judge against a lawsuit brought by a young woman who’d been ordered sterilized by the judge when she was a teenager.
1979 - America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit Two reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown , Pennsylvania.
1990 - President George H.W. Bush presented the Congressional Gold Medal to the widow of U.S. Olympic legend Jesse Owens.
1999 - NATO broadened its attacks on Yugoslavia to target Serb military forces in Kosovo in the fifth straight night of airstrikes; thousands of refugees flooded into Albania and Macedonia from Kosovo.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that an anonymous tip does not justify a stop-and-frisk action against a person.
2001 - President George W. Bush publicly rejected the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate, a pact never ratified by the Senate.
2003 - American-led forces in Iraq dropped thousand-pound bombs on Republican Guard units guarding the gates to Baghdad and battled for control of the strategic city of Nasiriyah.
2011 - Vigorously defending American attacks in Libya, President Barack Obama declared in a nationally broadcast address that the United States intervened to prevent a slaughter of civilians; he ruled out targeting Moammar Gadhafi, warning that trying to oust him militarily would be a mistake as costly as the war in Iraq.
2016 - The FBI said it had successfully used a mysterious technique without Apple Inc.’s help to hack into the iPhone used by a gunman in a mass shooting in California, effectively ending a pitched court battle.
2020 - The number of confirmed coronavirus deaths in the U.S. topped 2,000, twice the number from just three days earlier; five countries had higher death tolls, including Italy with more than 10,000.
Birthdays
30 - Derek Carr (football player)
31 - Laura Harrier (actress)
33 - Lacey Turner (actress)
35 - Lady Gaga (singer)
36 - Miss Mykie (TV host)
40 - Julia Stiles (actress)
44 - Annie Wersching (actress)
46 - Kate Gosselin (reality star)
51 - Vince Vaughn (actor)
52 - Rodney Atkins (country singer)
52 - Brett Ratner (director)
53 - Max Perlich (actor)
54 - Tracey Needham (actor)
55 - Salt (rapper)
59 - Alexandra Billings (actress)
66 - Reba McEntire (country singer)
75 - Dianne Wiest (actress)
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Today in Sports History - March 28
1942 - Stanford defeats Dartmouth 53-38 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1944 - Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1945 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard (Montreal Canadiens) became the first NHL player to score 50 goals in a season. Richard scored 50 goals in 50 games.
1950 - City College of New York (CCNY) defeats Bradley 71-68 to win the NCAA Tournament. CCNY becomes the first team to win both the NCAA and NIT postseason tournaments in the same year.
1963 - Sonny Werblin announced that the New York Titans of the American Football League was changing its name to the New York Jets.
1972 - Wilt Chamberlain plays in his final NBA game.
1977 - Marquette defeats North Carolina 67-59 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1982 - Rutgers defeats Texas 83-77 to win the inaugural NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.
1990 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls scores 69 points in a game, the fourth time in his career he eclipses 60 points scored.
1999 - In Cuba, the Orioles beat the Cuban National Team 3-2. It was the first time since the 1950's that a U.S. team had played in Cuba.
1999 - Purdue defeats Duke 62-45 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1999 - WrestleMania XV is held in Philadelphia. The main event saw Stone Cold Steve Austin defeat The Rock for the WWF Championship.
2002 - Greco Roman wrestler Rulon Gardner had the middle toe on his right foot amputated due to frostbite. He had been stranded overnight in Wyoming on February 14.
2002 - Eric Cairns (New York Islanders) was suspended by the NHL for two games. The previous night Cairns had punched Radek Bonk (Ottawa Senators).
2010 - WrestleMania XXVI is held in Glendale, Arizona. The top matches on the card saw Chris Jericho defeat Edge for the World Heavyweight Championship, John Cena defeat Batista for the WWE Championship, and The Undertaker defeated Shawn Michaels in a retirement match.
1797 - Nathaniel Biggs 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 U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, ruled 6-2 that Wong, who was born in the United States to Chinese immigrants, was an American citizen.
1899 - August Busch, the American businessman who built Anheuser-Busch into the world's largest brewery, was born.
1930 - The Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora changed their names to Istanbul and Ankara, respectively.
1939 - The Spanish Civil War ended.
1941 - Author Virginia Woolf drowned herself at her home in England at age 59.
1942 - During World War II, British naval forces staged a successful raid on the Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire in Operation Chariot, destroying the only dry dock on the Atlantic coast capable of repairing the German battleship Tirpitz.
1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, die in Washington, D.C. at age 78.
1977 - “Rocky” won best picture at the 49th Academy Awards; Peter Finch was honored posthumously as best actor for “Network” while his co-star, Faye Dunaway, was recognized as best actress.
1978 - In Stump v. Sparkman, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld, 5-3, the judicial immunity of an Indiana judge against a lawsuit brought by a young woman who’d been ordered sterilized by the judge when she was a teenager.
1979 - America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit Two reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown , Pennsylvania.
1990 - President George H.W. Bush presented the Congressional Gold Medal to the widow of U.S. Olympic legend Jesse Owens.
1999 - NATO broadened its attacks on Yugoslavia to target Serb military forces in Kosovo in the fifth straight night of airstrikes; thousands of refugees flooded into Albania and Macedonia from Kosovo.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that an anonymous tip does not justify a stop-and-frisk action against a person.
2001 - President George W. Bush publicly rejected the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate, a pact never ratified by the Senate.
2003 - American-led forces in Iraq dropped thousand-pound bombs on Republican Guard units guarding the gates to Baghdad and battled for control of the strategic city of Nasiriyah.
2011 - Vigorously defending American attacks in Libya, President Barack Obama declared in a nationally broadcast address that the United States intervened to prevent a slaughter of civilians; he ruled out targeting Moammar Gadhafi, warning that trying to oust him militarily would be a mistake as costly as the war in Iraq.
2016 - The FBI said it had successfully used a mysterious technique without Apple Inc.’s help to hack into the iPhone used by a gunman in a mass shooting in California, effectively ending a pitched court battle.
2020 - The number of confirmed coronavirus deaths in the U.S. topped 2,000, twice the number from just three days earlier; five countries had higher death tolls, including Italy with more than 10,000.
Birthdays
30 - Derek Carr (football player)
31 - Laura Harrier (actress)
33 - Lacey Turner (actress)
35 - Lady Gaga (singer)
36 - Miss Mykie (TV host)
40 - Julia Stiles (actress)
44 - Annie Wersching (actress)
46 - Kate Gosselin (reality star)
51 - Vince Vaughn (actor)
52 - Rodney Atkins (country singer)
52 - Brett Ratner (director)
53 - Max Perlich (actor)
54 - Tracey Needham (actor)
55 - Salt (rapper)
59 - Alexandra Billings (actress)
66 - Reba McEntire (country singer)
75 - Dianne Wiest (actress)
===========================================
Today in Sports History - March 28
1942 - Stanford defeats Dartmouth 53-38 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1944 - Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1945 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard (Montreal Canadiens) became the first NHL player to score 50 goals in a season. Richard scored 50 goals in 50 games.
1950 - City College of New York (CCNY) defeats Bradley 71-68 to win the NCAA Tournament. CCNY becomes the first team to win both the NCAA and NIT postseason tournaments in the same year.
1963 - Sonny Werblin announced that the New York Titans of the American Football League was changing its name to the New York Jets.
1972 - Wilt Chamberlain plays in his final NBA game.
1977 - Marquette defeats North Carolina 67-59 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1982 - Rutgers defeats Texas 83-77 to win the inaugural NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.
1990 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls scores 69 points in a game, the fourth time in his career he eclipses 60 points scored.
1999 - In Cuba, the Orioles beat the Cuban National Team 3-2. It was the first time since the 1950's that a U.S. team had played in Cuba.
1999 - Purdue defeats Duke 62-45 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1999 - WrestleMania XV is held in Philadelphia. The main event saw Stone Cold Steve Austin defeat The Rock for the WWF Championship.
2002 - Greco Roman wrestler Rulon Gardner had the middle toe on his right foot amputated due to frostbite. He had been stranded overnight in Wyoming on February 14.
2002 - Eric Cairns (New York Islanders) was suspended by the NHL for two games. The previous night Cairns had punched Radek Bonk (Ottawa Senators).
2010 - WrestleMania XXVI is held in Glendale, Arizona. The top matches on the card saw Chris Jericho defeat Edge for the World Heavyweight Championship, John Cena defeat Batista for the WWE Championship, and The Undertaker defeated Shawn Michaels in a retirement match.
