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What happened in history on this day: March 28?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On March 28 in ...
- 2000 - Be releases the BeOS 5 operating system for Intel-based personal computers.
- 2000 - Microsoft releases the Internet Explorer 5 Web browser for Apple Macintosh computers. The software requires Mac OS 7.6.1 or later. New features include a new rendering engine, 50 percent faster than version 4.5, and more accurate rendering.
- 1924 - Disney ships the fourth Alice Comedy film, Alice's Wild West Show, to M.J. Winkler Productions.
- 1936 - The Silly Symphony film Elmer Elephant is released to theaters.
- 1941 - The Pluto film A Gentleman's Gentleman is released to theaters. Mickey Mouse also appears.
- 1953 - Disney releases the Goofy film Father's Day Off to theaters.
- 1958 - The #3 Disneyland locomotive, named the Fred Gurley, begins public operation.
- 1965 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring Kilroy, part three.
- 1987 - The first Disney Store opens, in the Glendale Galleria, California.
- 1987 - The Port of Entry shop opens in World Showcase Plaza in EPCOT Center.
- 1991 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show. An amusement park has a large sign: "DIZ-NEE-LAND: not affiliated with Disneyland, Disney World, or anything else from the Walt Disney Company".
- 1992 - The syndicated TV special Newsies! Newsies! See All About It airs.
- 1997 - Buena Vista Pictures releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film The Sixth Man to theaters in the USA.
- 1998 - Disney animator Marc Davis adds his signature and handprints in cement in front of the Mann's Chinese Theater replica in the Disney-MGM Studios in Florida.
- 2000 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment releases the film The Sixth Sense on videocassette and DVD in the US.
- 2004 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. When asked why she is in prison, a girl says "I pushed Snow White over the parapet at Disneyland.".
- 1953 - The St. Louis Chevrolet Assembly Plant manager is notified that the plant would be the only Corvette assembly plant for 1954, and that the body material would be fiberglass, not steel.
- 1939 - Poland rejects Adolf Hitler's demand that Danzig be ceded to Germany.
- 1940 - The Anglo-French Supreme War Council meets for 6th time in London. They decide to mine the inshore passages of the Norwegian coast. After the meeting they declare that both governments would negotiate peace only by mutual agreement.
- 1941 - (night) In the Mediterranean, the British fleet destroys three Italian cruisers off Cape Matapan, south of Greece.
- 1942 - (evening) 234 British aircraft attack Lübeck, Germany. 12 planes are shot down. One-third of the area is burned, leaving 16,000 homeless. The central power station and several factories are destroyed. This raid is the first to have a major impact on the German homeland. The port is closed for three weeks. A week later Joseph Goebbels writes in his diary: "The damage is enormous. It is horrible." British Deputy Chief of Air Staff Arthur Harris writes of the attack, ". . . the first German city went up in flames".
- 1943 - (evening) 323 British Bombers attack German submarine bases at St. Nazaire.
- 1945 - (noon) The Royal Canadian Engineers complete building a Bailey bridge 1814 feet long over the Rhine River, near Emmerich.
- 1945 - Canadian forces begin an advance on Emmerich, Germany.
- 1945 - Adolf Hitler replaces chief of staff Heinz Guderian with Hans Krebbs.
- 1945 - Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower turns down Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's request for an all-out assault on Berlin.
- 1945 - Dwight Eisenhower tells Josef Stalin that the Western Allies will not advance toward Berlin, but will advance to Efurt-Leipzig-Dresden, to split the German defence, and link up with the Soviet Red Army.
- 1985 - Hungary issues a postage stamp marking the 40th anniversary of liberation.
- 2000 - Micronesia issues a 33-cent postage stamp depicting the Yalta Conference, as part of a series on Peacemakers.
- 1991 - US District Court judge Fern Smith grants Nintendo's request for a preliminary injunction against Atari Games, in the lawsuits over Atari Games' compatible security chip for Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges. Atari Games is barred from selling or copying copywrited Nintendo programs for use in video game cartridges. Smith accuses Atari Games of lying to obtain Nintendo's 10NES security program from the Copyright Office, then lying that it had independently developed compatible code.
- 1997 - Buena Vista Pictures releases the film The Sixth Man to theaters in the USA. A character is told to forget girls and "stick to Nintendo".
- 1999 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the US. An arcade video game is played, Monkey Fracas Jr., with a space ship fighting a giant ape throwing barrels pulled from inside a planet. This is a reference to the video game Donkey Kong Jr..
- 2001 - Nintendo releases the Pokémon Stadium 2 video game for the Nintendo 64.
- 2001 - Microsoft upgrades the size of the hard drive for its upcoming Xbox video game system from 8 GB to 10 GB.
- 2001 - Conexant Systems announces that Microsoft will use its CX25871 video encoder chip to connect the Xbox video game system to digital and analog television sets.
- 2005 - Ubisoft releases the Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in the US.
- 2006 - Square Enix releases the Kingdom Hearts II video game for the PlayStation 2 in the USA.
- 2007 - Sega and Nintendo jointly announce Mario and Sonic At The Olympic Games video game for the Wii and DS, for release in the fall.
- 1996 - Dr. Pepper / Cadbury North America announces that Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. had decided to stop distributing A & W Root Beer.
- 1969 - The Government Organization Act receives Royal Assent. The Act alters the status of the Royal Canadian Mint, making it a Crown Corporation, as of April 1.
- 1891 - First world weightlifting championship held.
- 1922 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Saint Patricks (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), three games to 2.
- 1939 - Renaissance Big 5 win first pro basketball championship.
- 1942 - 4th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38.
- 1944 - 6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40.
- 1950 - 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: City College of New York beats Bradley 71-68; CCNY becomes first to win NCAA and National Invitation Basketball in same year.
- 1952 - US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright.
- 1952 - US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button.
- 1953 - US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright.
- 1953 - US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Hayes A Jenkins.
- 1954 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open.
- 1955 - New Zealand cricket all out for 26 versus England at Eden Park.
- 1957 - First American National Curling Championship is held.
- 1962 - Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives West Indies cricket victory over India.
- 1963 - AFL's New York Titans become the New York Jets.
- 1965 - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA All State Ladies' Golf Invitational.
- 1972 - Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game.
- 1975 - Washington Capitals win first game on road after 37 straight road losses also sets own team record with 17 straight losses.
- 1977 - 39th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Marquette beats North Carolina 67-59.
- 1981 - Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 metre (40.18 seconds).
- 1981 - Gabi Schönbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:01.70).
- 1981 - Viv Richards scores century in the first Test at his home in Antigua.
- 1981 - Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500 metre (36.91 seconds).
- 1982 - First NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Louisiana Tech beats Cheney 76-62.
- 1982 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open.
- 1985 - Sports Illustrated's April 1st edition tricks the nation as author George Plimpton weaves a fictitious tale of Sidd Finch, a Met rookie phenom who throws 168 mph fastball. Staged photographs and quotes from Mets in real life help to give the story a realistic edge.
- 1989 - New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars and Stripes, in a New York court.
- 1990 - Bengal beats Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient.
- 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
- 1992 - Ann Transon runs female world record 50km (3:05:01).
- 1992 - PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel.
- 1993 - 22nd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Helen Alfredsson.
- 1995 - Queensland beats South Australia to win first ever cricket Sheffield Shield.
- 1999 - 18th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Purdue beats Duke 62-45 in San Jose California.
- 2007 - Former Major League Baseball pitcher Ugueth Urbina is sentenced to 14 years in prison.
- 2009 - Three Canadian figure skaters (Barbara Underhill, Paul Martini, and Brian Orser) are inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame, in a ceremony at the world figure skating championships in Los Angeles, California.
- 1802 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
- 1985 - International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley's Comet.
- 1993 - Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031).
- 2003 - Japan launches two spy satellites into orbit. North Korea calls it "a hostile act".
- 2009 - NASA's space shuttle Discovery lands at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a 13-day mission to the International Space Station.
- 1970 - In Gediz, Turkey, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurs. Over 1,000 killed, more than 12,000 houses destroyed or severely damaged in the Gediz-Emet area of Kutahya Province. Over 50 percent of the buildings were damaged in 53 villages in the area. Strong aftershocks cause considerable additional damage.
- 1975 - In Eastern Idaho, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurs.
- 1982 - Near the coast of Peru, a magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurs. Three people killed and extensive damage at Lunahuana.
- 1996 - In Ecuador, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurs. At least 27 people killed, 100 injured, several thousand homeless.
- 2004 - The first ever South Atlantic hurricane makes landfall in South Brazil on the state of Santa Catarina - the hurricane is dubbed Hurricane Catarina.
- 2005 - In Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, a magnitude 8.6 earthquake occurs. At least 1,300 people killed, 350 injured and hundreds of buildings destroyed. A 3-metre tsunami damaged the port and airport on Simeulue.
Other history:
- 1939 - Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco.
- 1979 - Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pennsylvania (no deaths).
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Chronology of World History
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