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March 28: In 845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving; in 1776 Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco; in 1802 Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man; in 1862 in New Mexico, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory during the Battle of Glorieta Pass which began on March 26; in 1910 Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France; in 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states; in 1930 Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara; in 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; in 1979 a coolant leak at the Three Mile Islands Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial melt down; in 1990 President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal. Birthdays: brewer Frederick Pabst (1836); Russian author Maxim Gorky (1868); actor Ken Howard (1942); Jethro Tull keyboardist John Evan (1948); singer Reba McEntire (1955); Irish actress Orla Brady (1961). Music: In 1964 Radio Caroline, the UKs first all-day English-language pirate radio station, begins broadcasting from the Fredericia, a former Danish ferry, in the North Sea; in 1964 Madame Tussauds famous Wax Museum in London unveils its four new statues of the Beatles; in 1985, at 10:15 am EST, 6,000 North American radio stations begin playing the all-star benefit single We Are The World; in 1987 after hearing that Arizona Governor Evan Mecham would not honor the new national holiday Martin Luther King Day, the racially integrated Doobie Brothers move their upcoming show from Phoenix to Las Vegas; in 1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young release Woodstock and, in 1973 Led Zeppelin release the LP Houses Of The Holy; in 1964 The Beatles Cant Buy Me Love and Jan and Deans Dead Mans Curve enter the charts, in 1973 Pink Floyds LP Dark Side Of The Moon hits #1.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:43:08 +0000

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