1979 - Three Mile Island nuclear reactor incident
1930 - The city of Constantinople is changed (in name) to Istanbul.
1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine.
1776 - Mexican-born Spaniard Juan Bautista de Anza founds city of San Francisco
1747 - Benjamin Franklin's first letter describing his electricity experiments
This Day In Business
2006 - In France, Over 1 million students and union members take to the streets to protest the government's controversial First Employment Contract law.
1981 - Teen actress Julia Stiles, from "10 Things I Hate About You," born in New York City.
845 - Viking raiders sack Paris, and collect a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
1992 - Best finish in college basketball: Duke beats Kentucky on Laettner's buzzer beater.
March 28th Holiday
Serfs Emancipation Day (Tibet) - Celebrates the ending of feudalism in Tibet, signed on March 28, 1959.
Today's Birthday Trivia
He played the character Nick Van Owen in the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Who is he?
Today's Birthday Horoscope
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