- On This Day

Find out what happened on this day in the past (and every other day). Thousands of famous births,deaths as well as political and social events.

28-March-1868 Maxim Gorky born

28-March-1899 August Anheuser Busch born

28-March-1921 Dirk Bogarde born

28-March-1933 The Reichstag burns down

28-March-1939 Spanish Civil War ends

28-March-1941 Author Virginia Woolf commits suicide

28-March-1943 Composer Sergei Rachmaninov dies

28-March-1944 Ken Howard born

28-March-1948 Dianne Wiest born

28-March-1955 Reba McEntire born

28-March-1971 Juliandra Gillen born

28-March-1979 Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island

28-March-1981 First London Marathon

28-March-1981 Julia Stiles born

28-March-2005 Easter Monday