Today in history march 28. 37 Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate. 193 Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sells the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus. 364 Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor. 845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. 1776 Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco. 1794 Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau. 1795 Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia. 1802 Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man. 1809 Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin. 1854 Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia. 1860 First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins. 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass in New Mexico, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26. 1871 The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris. 1889 The Yngsjö murder occurs in Yngsjö, Sweden and Anna Månsdotter is arrested along with her son. 1910 Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France. 1913 Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states. 1930 Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara. 1933 The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airline lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board. 1939 Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege. 1941 World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers. 1942 World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire. 1946 Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power. 1951 First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mao Khe, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Vi?t Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp. 1959 The State Council of the Peoples Republic of China dissolves the Government of Tibet. 1968 Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship. 1969 Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece. 1969 The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreals history with 10,000 trade unionists, leftist activists, CEGEP students, and even some McGill students at McGills Roddick Gates. This led to the majority of the protesters getting arrested. 1970 Gediz earthquake: A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killed 1,086 and injured 1,260. 1978 The US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity. 1979 Operators of Three Mile Islands Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open following an unexpected shutdown. As a result, enough coolant drains out of the system to allow the core to overheat and partially melt down. 1979 The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghans government, precipitating a general election. 1990 President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal. 1994 In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths. 1994 BBC Radio 5 is closed and replaced with a new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live. 1999 Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre. 2000 Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train. 2003 In a friendly fire incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guards 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull. 2005 The 2005 Sumatra earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965. 2006 At least 1 million union members, students, and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the governments proposed First Employment Contract law.
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