History for March 28 - On-This-Day.com
August Busch 1899, Dirk Bogarde 1921, Dianne Wiest 1948 - Actress ("Law and Order")
Reba McEntire 1955 - Actress, country singer, Vince Vaughn 1969 - Actor, Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) 1986 - Musician
1774 - Britain passed the Coercive Act against Massachusetts.
1854 - The Crimean War began with Britain and France declaring war on Russia.
1885 - The Salvation Army was officially organized in the U.S.
1917 - During World War I the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was founded.
1921 - U.S. President Warren Harding named William Howard Taft as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1933 - In Germany, the Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.
1939 - The Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to Francisco Franco.
1979 - A major accident occurred at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. A nuclear power reactor overheated and suffered a partial meltdown.
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