28 Mairch

The **28t o Mairch** is the 87t day o the year (88t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 278 days ti come.

## Events

* 193 &ndash; Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinatit bi Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an unction tae Didius Julianus.
* 364 &ndash; Roman Emperor Valentinian I appynts his brither Flavius Valens co-emperor.
*1204 &ndash; The Siege o Château Gaillard ends in a French victory ower King John o Ingland, who loses control o Normandy tae King Philip II Augustus.
*1854 &ndash; Crimean War: Fraunce an Breetain declare war on Roushie.
*1930 &ndash; Constantinople an Angora chynge thair names tae Istanbul an Ankara.
*1939 &ndash; Spaingie Ceevil War: Francisco Franco conquers Madrid.
*1970 &ndash; Gediz yirdquauk: A 7.2 magnitude yirdquauk strikes wastren Turkey at aboot 23:05 local time, killed 1,086 an injured 1,260.
*1979 &ndash; In the Unitit Kinrick, a vote a Naw Confidence is passed on the Labour govrenment o James Callaghan.
*1979 &ndash; A nuclear accident occurs at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvanie, Unitit States.
*2005 &ndash; A major yirdquauk strikes the Indonesian isle o Sumatra.
*2006 &ndash; Mass protests occur agin Fraunce's First Contract Employment Law.
*2017 &ndash; The Scots Pairlament, bi a majority o 69 tae 59, approves plans for a seicont referendum on Scots unthirldom.

## Births

*1592 &ndash; John Amos Comenius, Moravian philosopher an theologian (d. 1670)
*1750 &ndash; Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (d. 1816)
*1862 &ndash; Aristide Briand, Prime meenister o Fraunce (d. 1932)
*1868 &ndash; Maxim Gorky, Roushie writer (d. 1936)
*1892 &ndash; Corneille Heymans, Belgian pheesiologist (d. 1968)
*1897 &ndash; Sepp Herberger, German fitbawer an manager (d. 1977)
*1928 &ndash; Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathemateecian (d. 2014)
*1928 &ndash; Zbigniew Brzezinski, Pols-American poleetical scientist an diplomat (d. 2017)
*1936 &ndash; Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian-Spainyie jurnalist an author, Nobel Prize laureate
*1942 &ndash; Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
*1942 &ndash; Neil Kinnock, Welsh politeecian
*1945 &ndash; Rodrigo Duterte, Preses o the Philippines
*1946 &ndash; Alejandro Toledo, umwhile Preses o Peru
*1948 &ndash; Dianne Wiest, American actress
*1949 &ndash; Frank Kopel, Scots fitbawer (d. 2014)
*1949 &ndash; Michael W. Young, American biologist, 2017 jynt Nobel laureate
*1955 &ndash; Reba McEntire, American sangster, sangwriter an actress
*1959 &ndash; Laura Chinchilla, umwhile Preses o Costa Rica
*1970 &ndash; Vince Vaughn, American actor
*1972 &ndash; Nick Frost, Inglis actor
*1976 &ndash; Stephen Gethins, Scots politeecian
*1985 &ndash; Stanislas Wawrinka, Swiss tennis player
*1986 &ndash; Lady Gaga, American sangster-sangwriter, producer, an actress
*1989 &ndash; David Goodwillie, Scots fitbawer
*1996 &ndash; Benjamin Pavard, French fitbawer

## Daiths
* 193 &ndash; Pertinax, Roman emperor (b. 126)
*1285 &ndash; Pape Martin IV (b. 1220)
*1584 &ndash; Ivan the Terrible, Tsar o Roushie (b. 1530)
*1635 &ndash; Patrick Forbes, Scots kirkman (b. 1564)
*1801 &ndash; Ralph Abercromby, Scots sodger an politeecian (b. 1734)
*1881 &ndash; Modest Mussorgsky, Roushie componer (b. 1839)
*1941 &ndash; Virginia Woolf, Inglis writer (b. 1882)
*1943 &ndash; Sergei Rachmaninoff, Roushie componer (b. 1873)
*1969 &ndash; Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general an politeecian, 34t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1890)
*1985 &ndash; Marc Chagall, Roushie-French airtist (b. 1887)
*1987 &ndash; Patrick Troughton, Inglis actor (b. 1920)
*2004 &ndash; Peter Ustinov, Inglis actor (b. 1921)
*2013 &ndash; Richard Griffiths, Inglis actor (b. 1947)
*2018 &ndash; Ron Mailer, Scots fitbawer (b. 1932)

## Halidays
* Serfs' Emancipation Day (Tibet)
* Teachers' Day (Czech Republic an Slovakie)