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What happened in history on this day: March 28?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On March 28 in ...
- 2000 - Be releases the BeOS 5 operating system for Intel-based personal computers.
- 2000 - Microsoft releases the Internet Explorer 5 Web browser for Apple Macintosh computers. The software requires Mac OS 7.6.1 or later. New features include a new rendering engine, 50 percent faster than version 4.5, and more accurate rendering.
- 1924 - Disney ships the fourth Alice Comedy film, Alice's Wild West Show, to M.J. Winkler Productions.
- 1936 - The Silly Symphony film Elmer Elephant is released to theaters.
- 1941 - The Goofy film Baggage Buster is released to theaters.
- 1941 - The Pluto film A Gentleman's Gentleman is released to theaters. Mickey Mouse also appears.
- 1953 - Disney releases the Goofy film Father's Day Off to theaters.
- 1958 - The #3 Disneyland locomotive, named the Fred Gurley, begins public operation.
- 1965 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring Kilroy, part three.
- 1987 - The first Disney Store opens, in the Glendale Galleria, California.
- 1987 - The Port of Entry shop opens in World Showcase Plaza in EPCOT Center.
- 1991 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show. An amusement park has a large sign: "DIZ-NEE-LAND: not affiliated with Disneyland, Disney World, or anything else from the Walt Disney Company".
- 1992 - The syndicated TV special Newsies! Newsies! See All About It airs.
- 1997 - Buena Vista Pictures releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film The Sixth Man to theaters in the USA.
- 1998 - Disney animator Marc Davis adds his signature and handprints in cement in front of the Mann's Chinese Theater replica in the Disney-MGM Studios in Florida.
- 1999 - The TV show The Wonderful World of Disney airs the two-hour movie Balloon Farm.
- 2000 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment releases the film The Sixth Sense on videocassette and DVD in the US.
- 2004 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. When asked why she is in prison, a girl says "I pushed Snow White over the parapet at Disneyland.".
- 1953 - The St. Louis Chevrolet Assembly Plant manager is notified that the plant would be the only Corvette assembly plant for 1954, and that the body material would be fiberglass, not steel.
- 1939 - Poland announces that any German attempt to alter the status of Danzig without Polish consent would lead to war.
- 1940 - The Anglo-French Supreme War Council meets for 6th time in London. They decide to mine the inshore passages of the Norwegian coast. After the meeting they declare that both governments would negotiate peace only by mutual agreement.
- 1941 - (night) In the Mediterranean, the British fleet destroys three Italian cruisers off Cape Matapan, south of Greece.
- 1942 - A British commando raid by 18 naval craft and 611 men is staged on Saint Nazaire, France. The Normandie dry dock gate is destroyed by HMS Campbeltown, the only dock capable of servicing German battleships on the Atlantic. Only two vessels return to England. 169 British men and over 400 Germans die.
- 1942 - (0030 hours) Lieutenant-Colonel A.C. Newman's force of Operation Chariot enters the Loire estuary, approaching Saint Nazaire, France.
- 1942 - (0128 hours) German forces near Saint Nazaire, France, spot enemy approach, and open fire. British return fire.
- 1942 - (0134 hours) HMS Campbeltown rams the outer gate of the Saint Nazaire dock, France.
- 1942 - (evening) 234 British aircraft attack Lübeck, Germany. 12 planes are shot down. One-third of the area is burned, leaving 16,000 homeless. The central power station and several factories are destroyed. This raid is the first to have a major impact on the German homeland. The port is closed for three weeks.
- 1943 - (evening) 323 British Bombers attack German submarine bases at St. Nazaire.
- 1945 - (noon) The Royal Canadian Engineers complete building a Bailey bridge 1814 feet long over the Rhine River, near Emmerich.
- 1945 - Canadian forces begin an advance on Emmerich, Germany.
- 1945 - Adolf Hitler replaces chief of staff Heinz Guderian with Hans Krebbs.
- 1945 - Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower turns down Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's request for an all-out assault on Berlin.
- 1945 - Dwight Eisenhower tells Josef Stalin that the Western Allies will not advance toward Berlin, but will advance to Efurt-Leipzig-Dresden, to split the German defence, and link up with the Soviet Red Army.
- 1985 - Hungary issues a postage stamp marking the 40th anniversary of liberation.
- 2000 - Micronesia issues a 33-cent postage stamp depicting the Yalta Conference, as part of a series on Peacemakers.
- 1980 - Midway releases the Space Invaders II video game in arcades in the US, in table cabinet form.
- 1991 - US District Court judge Fern Smith grants Nintendo's request for a preliminary injunction against Atari Games, in the lawsuits over Atari Games' compatible security chip for Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges. Atari Games is barred from selling or copying copywrited Nintendo programs for use in video game cartridges. Smith accuses Atari Games of lying to obtain Nintendo's 10NES security program from the Copyright Office, then lying that it had independently developed compatible code.
- 1997 - Buena Vista Pictures releases the film The Sixth Man to theaters in the USA. A character is told to forget girls and "stick to Nintendo".
- 1999 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the US. An arcade video game is played, Monkey Fracas Jr., with a space ship fighting a giant ape throwing barrels pulled from inside a planet. This is a reference to the video game Donkey Kong Jr..
- 2001 - Nintendo releases the Pokémon Stadium 2 video game for the Nintendo 64.
- 2001 - Microsoft upgrades the size of the hard drive for its upcoming Xbox video game system from 8 GB to 10 GB.
- 2001 - Conexant Systems announces that Microsoft will use its CX25871 video encoder chip to connect the Xbox video game system to digital and analog television sets.
- 2003 - Nintendo releases the Game Boy Advance SP in the United Kingdom.
- 2005 - Ubisoft releases the Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in the US.
- 2006 - Koei releases the Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 in the US.
- 2006 - Square Enix releases the Kingdom Hearts II video game for the PlayStation 2 in the USA.
- 2007 - Sega and Nintendo jointly announce Mario and Sonic At The Olympic Games video game for the Nintendo Wii and DS, for release in the fall.
- 2010 - Nintendo releases the Nintendo DSi XL handheld video game system in the USA. Price is $189.99.
- 1996 - Dr. Pepper / Cadbury North America announces that Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. had decided to stop distributing A & W Root Beer.
- 1969 - The Government Organization Act receives Royal Assent. The Act alters the status of the Royal Canadian Mint, making it a Crown Corporation, as of April 1.
- 1804 - President Thomas Jefferson suspends coinage of silver dollars, to stop the practice of profiteers exporting them to the West Indies, exchanging them for Spanish dollars, and importing them for recoinage at the Philadelphia Mint.
- 1891 - First world weightlifting championship held.
- 1922 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Saint Patricks (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), three games to 2.
- 1939 - Renaissance Big 5 win first pro basketball championship.
- 1942 - 4th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38.
- 1944 - 6th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40.
- 1950 - 12th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: City College of New York beats Bradley 71-68; CCNY becomes first to win NCAA and National Invitation Basketball in same year.
- 1952 - US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright.
- 1952 - US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button.
- 1953 - US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright.
- 1953 - US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Hayes A Jenkins.
- 1954 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open.
- 1955 - New Zealand cricket all out for 26 versus England at Eden Park.
- 1957 - First American National Curling Championship is held.
- 1962 - Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives West Indies cricket victory over India.
- 1963 - AFL's New York Titans become the New York Jets.
- 1965 - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA All State Ladies' Golf Invitational.
- 1972 - Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game.
- 1975 - Washington Capitals win first game on road after 37 straight road losses also sets own team record with 17 straight losses.
- 1977 - 39th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Marquette beats North Carolina 67-59.
- 1981 - Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 metre (40.18 seconds).
- 1981 - Gabi Schönbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:01.70).
- 1981 - Viv Richards scores century in the first Test at his home in Antigua.
- 1981 - Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500 metre (36.91 seconds).
- 1982 - First NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Louisiana Tech beats Cheney 76-62.
- 1982 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open.
- 1989 - New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars and Stripes, in a New York court.
- 1990 - Bengal beats Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient.
- 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
- 1992 - Ann Transon runs female world record 50km (3:05:01).
- 1992 - PBA National Championship Won by Eric Forkel.
- 1993 - 22nd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Helen Alfredsson.
- 1995 - Queensland beats South Australia to win first ever cricket Sheffield Shield.
- 1999 - 18th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Purdue beats Duke 62-45 in San Jose California.
- 2007 - Former Major League Baseball pitcher Ugueth Urbina is sentenced to 14 years in prison.
- 2009 - Three Canadian figure skaters (Barbara Underhill, Paul Martini, and Brian Orser) are inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame, in a ceremony at the world figure skating championships in Los Angeles, California.
- 2022 - At crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, USA, NHL regular season game: Seattle Kraken beats Los Angeles Kings by score 6-1.
- 2022 - At Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, NHL regular season game: Edmonton Oilers beats Arizona Coyotes by score 6-1.
- 2022 - At United Center in Chicago, Illinois, USA, NHL regular season game: Buffalo Sabres beats Chicago Blackhawks by score 6-5.
- 2022 - At Enterprise Center in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, NHL regular season game: Saint Louis Blues beats Vancouver Canucks by score 4-1.
- 2022 - At Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., USA, NHL regular season game: Carolina Hurricanes beats Washington Capitals by score 6-1.
- 1802 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
- 1985 - International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley's Comet.
- 1993 - Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031).
- 2003 - Japan launches two spy satellites into orbit. North Korea calls it "a hostile act".
- 2009 - NASA's space shuttle Discovery lands at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a 13-day mission to the International Space Station.
- 1902 - 27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville, Tennessee, USA (state record).
- 2004 - The first ever South Atlantic hurricane makes landfall in South Brazil on the state of Santa Catarina - the hurricane is dubbed Hurricane Catarina.
- 1796 - Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is first US-African church.
- 1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine.
- 1799 - New York State abolishes slavery.
- 1834 - US Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for taking federal deposits from Bank of United States.
- 1845 - Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US.
- 1862 - Skirmish at Bealeton Station, Virginia.
- 1885 - US Salvation Army is officially organized.
- 1902 - 27.9 cm precipitation at McMinnville, Tennessee, USA (state record).
- 1948 - Second Tony Awards: Mister Roberts win.
- 1953 - 7th Tony Awards: Crucible and Wonderful Town win.
- 1954 - 8th Tony Awards: Teahouse of the August Moon and Kismet win.
- 1975 - In Eastern Idaho, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurs.
- 1979 - In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA, a nuclear energy reactor at Three Mile Island overheats to 4000 degrees, due to a failed drainage valve. Cooling water contaminated with radiation drains into adjoining buildings, releasing radioactive gases throughout the plant and into the atmosphere. By the end of the day, cooling water is restarted, reducing temperature and averting a meltdown.
- 1982 - 12th Easter Seal Telethon raises US$19,500,000.
- 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
- 1992 - 6th American Comedy Awards: Cathy Ladman, Judy Watkins, Billy Crystal.
- 1993 - 13th Golden Raspberry Awards: Shining Through wins.
- 1996 - Katie Beam, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 35th Miss Teenage America.
- 2009 - NASA's space shuttle Discovery lands at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a 13-day mission to the International Space Station.
- 2018 - US President Donald Trump fires Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin.
Other history:
- 1939 - Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco.
- 1979 - Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pennsylvania (no deaths).
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