March 28

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.


Psalm 19:2

March is:

National Women's History Month - Honors all women in history — All women!! Women who have made significant public contributions and those whose impact was felt exclusively by their families. Sponsor: National Women's History Project.

Optimism Month

Poison Prevention Awareness Month - Spread the word on how poisoning can be prevented. Sponsor: Poison Prevention Council.

March 28 is:

Beer Brewers Day - On the birthdays of Frederick Pabst (1836) and August Anheuser Butcher. (1899), we honor all great brewers.

Children's Picture Book Day - The first picture book for children was written by J. A. Comenius in 1592. Sponsor: Book Marketing Update.

Czechoslovakian Teachers Day - Celebrates the birthday of Jan Amos Komensky (1592), a Moravian educational reformer. 

Eat an Eskimo Pie Day - Sponsor: The Life of the Party. 

First microfilm device introduced (1922) 

Respect Your Cat Day - In 1384, King Richard 11 of England issued a royal edict condemning the eating of cats. Give your cat a little extra treat today! Sponsor: A Pilgrim's Almanac. 

Saint John Nepomucene Neumann Birthday - Bishop Neumann, the first U,S. ,male saint proclaimed by the Roman Catholic church, was born iri Prachatice, Bohemia in l 811.

Born on this Day

• 1472: Fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter
  

• 1483: Raphael great Italian Renaissance painter.
  

• 1515: St. Teresa of Avila
  

• 1592: Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius), Moravian educational reformer
  

• 1862: Aristide Briand in France, statesman
  

• 1836: Brewer Frederick Pabst
  

• 1868: Russian author Maxim Gorky
  

• 1899: Brewer August Anheuser Busch Jr.
  

• 1903: Pianist Rudolf Serkin
  

• 1905: Wildlife buff and zookeeper Marlin Perkins was born. (d. 1986.) Perkins, the host of "Wild Kingdom" on TV, started in Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo with a TV show called "Zoo Parade."
  

• 1907: Superagent Irving "Swifty" Lazar
  

• 1914: Edmund Muskie, the 1968 democratic vice-presidential candidate
  

• 1921: Actor Dirk Bogarde
  

• 1924: Freddie Bartholomew
  

• 1928: Former White House national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski
  

• 1941: Country musician Charlie McCoy
  

• 1942: ABC News correspondent Bill Greenwood
  

• 1942: Movie director Mike Newell ("Four Weddings and a Funeral")
  

• 1943: Actress Conchata Ferrell
  

• 1944: Actor Ken Howard
  

• 1944: Basketball player-coach Rick Barry
  

• 1945: Rock musician Chuck Portz (The Turtles)
  

• 1948: Actress Dianne Wiest
  

• 1948: Rhythm-and-blues musician Milan Williams (The Commodores)
  

• 1955: Country singer Reba McEntire
  

• 1968: Actor Max Perlich
  

• 1969: Rapper Salt (Salt-N-Pepa)
  

• 1970: Actor Vince Vaughn
  

• 1971: Rapper Mr. Cheeks (Lost Boyz)    
  

• 1981: Actress Julia Stiles         
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 0193: Pertinax, Roman Emperor, assassinated by Praetorian guard. Didius Julianus, highest bidder in Praetorian auction, becomes Emperor of Rome
  

• 1255: Death of Pope Martin IV
  

• 1296: Beginning of Scots War of Independence
  

• 1369: Assassination of Pedro, "the Cruel," King of Castile, the first European Monarch who could write, by Henry of Trastamara at Montiel
  

• 1380: Gunpowder first used in Europe, by the Venetians against the Genoese
  

• 1384: Cat-eating was condemned by England's Richard III. The peasants resented the King, whom they called "The Royal Cat," because he killed and ate thousands of cats.
  

• 1394: Opening of St. Mary's College, Winchester, England
  

• 1462: Vasili II, last Duke of Moscow vassal to the Tatars, dies
  

• 1606: Execution of Henry Garner, Jesuit, for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot
  

• 1611: Adrian Block and Hendrick Christiaensen sail to Manhattan to trade with the Indians
  

• 1611: Ernest Van De Wall sails from Holland in search of the Northwest Passage
  

• 1677: Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian engraver, dies at about 70
  

• 1797: Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine.
  

• 1834: The US Senate voted to censure President Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
  

• 1842: Some musicians from the Imperial Court Orchestra of Austria gave a concert. Otto Nicolai conducted this new ensemble. It was the first concert of the Vienna Philharmonic.
  

• 1849: Frederick William IV of Prussia was elected Emperor of the Germans by the German National Assembly.
  

• 1854: During the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia.
  

• 1865: Outdoor advertising legislation was enacted in New York State. The law banned "painting on stones, rocks or trees."
  

• 1896: The opera "Andrea Chenier," by Umberto giordano premiered in Milan, Italy.
  

• 1910: The first seaplane took off from Martigues near Marseilles, France, designed by Frenchman Henri Fabre.
  

• 1915: Emma Goldman gave a speech to an audience in New York City which shocked that day's sedate society. The subject was contraception. Goldman was arrested and given a choice of paying $100 fine or going to jail for 15 days. She chose jail.
  

• 1920: Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford are married.
  

• 1922: Bradley A. Fiske of Washington, D.C., patented a microfilm, reading device.
  

• 1930: The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara.
  

• 1939: Madrid surrendered to the nationalist forces of Generalissimo Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
  

• 1939: Adolf Hitler denounced Germany's 1934 non-aggression pact with Poland.
  

• 1941: Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf died in Lewes, England. She ended her life by walking into the River Ouse.
  

• 1941: Sportscaster Red Barber and his wife Lila were married
  

• 1942: During World War Two, British naval forces raided the Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire.
  

• 1943: Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died in Beverly Hills, California.
  

• 1953: Athlete Jim Thorpe died in Lomita, California.
  

• 1963: Sonny Werblin announced that the team, the New York Titans of the American Football League

• 1968: The rock musical "Hair" opened at the Biltmore Theatre in New York City.
  

• 1969: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, died at 78, in Washington, D.C.
  

• 1970: 1,100 people were killed and 3,000 injured when an earthquake struck the town of Gediz in western Anatolia, nearly destroying the town and surrounding villages.
  

• 1973: Marlon Brando refuses an Oscar - because of abuse of the Native Americans by Hollywood.
  

• 1974: Romanian Communist Party leader Nicolae Ceausescu was elected to the newly created post of president of the Socialist Republic of Romania.
  

• 1979: A failure in the cooling system at the nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania caused a near-meltdown. It was the worst accident ever at an American civilian nuclear facility.
  

• 1982: Voters in El Salvador went to the polls for a constituent assembly election that resulted in victory for the Christian Democrats, led by President Jose Napoleon Duarte
  

• 1983: In Argentine, unionized workers demanding higher wages began a 24-hour general strike, paralyzing the country's industry, commerce and transportation.
  

• 1985: The U.S. Senate approved a resolution urging President Reagan to take retaliatory trade measures against Japan unless the Japanese opened new markets to U.S. goods. The same day, Japan announced it would increase auto exports to the U.S. by 25%.
  

• 1986: Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi presided over a rally in which he proclaimed victory over the United States in a just-ended confrontation in the Gulf of Sidra.
  

• 1987: Maria von Trapp, whose life inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music," died in Morrisville, Vermont, at age 82.
  

• 1988: Richard Gephardt ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination following his third-place finish in the Michigan caucuses.
  

• 1989: President Bush sent three high-ranking officials to Alaska to "take a hard look" at the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound.
  

• 1990: British customs officials announced they had foiled an attempt to supply Iraq with 40 American-made devices for triggering nuclear weapons, following an 18-month investigation by U.S. and British authorities.
  

• 1991: Tens of thousands of supporters of Boris N. Yeltsin marched in Moscow in defiance of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's ban on rallies. 
  

• 1991: Fire seriously damaged the US Embassy in Moscow. 
  

• 1991: Former President Reagan declared his support for the so-called "Brady Bill" requiring a seven-day waiting period for handgun purchases.
  

• 1992: Democrats Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown clashed over Brown's flat-tax proposal, with Clinton charging the plan would hurt the poor, and Brown accusing Clinton of inventing "another big lie."
  

• 1993: Montreal: Charles Dutoit conducted a full evening of works not heard live very often: Stravinsky's "Jeu de cartes," Bizet's "Symphony in C," and the complete ballet music for "Bacchus et Ariane" by Albert Roussel.
  

• 1993: Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his chief political rival, parliament speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov, claimed victory after surviving attempts by the Russian Congress to oust them.
  

• 1993: About ten-thousand people marched in Dublin, Ireland, to protest an IRA bombing that claimed the lives of two young boys.
  

• 1993: Chinese Premier Li Peng won a second term.
  

• 1994: More than 50 people were killed in violence that erupted in Johannesburg, South Africa, during a march by Zulu nationalists.
  

• 1994: Absurdist playwright Eugen Lonesco died in Paris at age 81.
  

• 1995: In Japan, Mitsubishi Bank and the Bank of Tokyo agreed to a merger to create the world's largest bank.
  

• 1996: Congress passed the line-item veto, giving the president power to cut government spending by scrapping specific programs.
  

• 1996: The space shuttle "Atlantis"' astronauts said goodbye to the crew of Russia's space station "Mir" and then flew away, leaving Shannon Lucid behind for a five-month stay in orbit.
  

• 1997: A medical examiner revealed that some members of the Heaven's Gate cult who'd committed suicide in a California mansion had also been castrated in apparent pursuit of the group's ideal of androgynous immortality.
  

• 1998: President Clinton, during his visit to South Africa, went to Soweto, a landmark in the bloody uprising against apartheid, to honor South Africans "who answered the call of conscience" and defeated their country's system of white supremacy.
  

• 1999: The Baltimore Orioles beat a Cuban all-star team 3-2 in Havana.
  

• 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.
  

• 1999: Venus Williams beat kid sister Serena 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 to win the Lipton Championships in the first all-sister women's final in 115 years.
  

• 2000: In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court sharply curtailed police power to rely on anonymous tips to stop and search people. 
  

• 2001: A federal appeals court in San Francisco threw out a record $107 million verdict against anti-abortion activists, ruling that a Web site and wanted posters branding abortion doctors "baby butchers'' and criminals were protected by the First Amendment. 
  

• 2001: The authors of a book on the Oklahoma City bombing revealed that during prison interviews, Timothy McVeigh  had shown no remorse for what happened, and called the 19 children who died "collateral damage.''
  
  

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