WHAT HAPPENED ON 28. MARCH
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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. (28. March 1933)

Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege. (28. March 1939)

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. (28. March 1941)

World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire. (28. March 1942)

Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power. (28. March 1946)

First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mao Khe, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp. (28. March 1951)

The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the Government of Tibet. (28. March 1959)

Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship. (28. March 1968)

Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece. (28. March 1969)

The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal's history with 10,000 trade unionists, leftist activists, college students, and some McGill students at McGill's Roddick Gates. The majority of the protesters are arrested. (28. March 1969)

Gediz earthquake: A 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killed 1,086 and injured 1,260. (28. March 1970)

The US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity. (28. March 1978)

A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial melt down. (28. March 1979)

The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government, precipitating a general election. (28. March 1979)

President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal. (28. March 1990)

In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths. (28. March 1994)

BBC Radio 5 is closed and replaced with a new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live. (28. March 1994)

Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre. (28. March 1999)

Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train. (28. March 2000)

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. (28. March 2003)