History of the Day for:
March 28
- 1797: Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented the washing machine.
- 1834: The Senate voted to censure President Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
- 1865: Outdoor advertising legislation was enacted in New York State on this day.
- 1898: The Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the U.S. to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen, and could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- 1930: The names of Turkey's main cities, Constantinople and Angora, were changed to Istanbul and Ankara.
- 1939: The Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco.
- 1941: British novelist and critic Virginia Woolf committed suicide in Lewes, England; Gossip columnist Louella Parsons hosted "Hollywood Premiere" for the first time on CBS Radio.
- 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 raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
- 1943: Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died in Beverly Hills.
- 1946: Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
- 1963: Sonny Werblin announced that the New York Titans of the American Football League would be changing their name to the New York Jets.
- 1969: Dwight D. Eisenhower, died in Washington at age 78.
- 1972: Wilt Chamberlain played his last pro basketball game.
- 1979: America's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Pa. A partial meltdown of one reactor forced evacuation of residents after radioactive gas leaked into the atmosphere.
- 1987: Maria von Trapp, whose life inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music," died in Morrisville, Vt., at age 82.
- 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.
- 2000: A Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die in this accident).
- 2003: In a "friendly fire" incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.
- 2005: The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1965.
- 2006: At least 1 million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.