GEN - On This Date in History - 3/28

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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


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