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Today is Wednesday 03/28/2001
1794 - Nathaniel Briggs gets patent for the washing machine.
1834 - Senate censures President Jackson for taking federal deposits from Bank of US.
1930 - Cities of Constantinople & Angora changed to Istanbul & Ankara.
1939 - Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to Francisco Franco.
1941 - Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf dies.
1942 - British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St. Nazaire.
1943 - Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff dies.
1953 - Athlete Jim Thorpe dies.
1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president, dies in Washington at age 78.
1979 - Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island near Middletown, Pa.
Birthdays
1903 - Rudolf Serkin, pianist
1914 - Edmund S. Muskie, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State
1922 - Dirk Bogarde, Actor
1928 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, National security adviser
1933 - Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska)
1944 - Ken Howard, actor
1955 - Reba McEntire, Country singer
-- Anonymous, March 28, 2001