Volume 13 , Issue 13

This Day In History (March 28)

It was on this day, March 28, 1979, America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit Two reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. Click following URL to Read article that appeared in the Times.

On March 28, 1899, August Busch, the American businessman who built Anheuser-Busch into the world's largest brewery, was born. Following his death on September 29, 1989, his obituary appeared in The Times.

On This Date, March 28:
1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine.

1834 - The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.

1854 - Britain and France declared war on Russia during the Crimean War.

1930 - The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara, respectively.

1939 - The Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco.

1941 - Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf drowned herself near her home in England at age 59.

1943 - Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died at age 70.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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