Today in History
March 28
1800 - Act of Union with England passes in Ireland’s Parliament.
1854 - Britain and France declare war on Russia during the Crimean War.
1938 - Japan installs puppet government of Chinese Republic in Nanking.
1942 - British naval forces raid the Nazi-occupied French port of St Nazaire during Second World War.
1945 - United States invades Cebu in the heart of the Philippines.
1959 - The State Council of the People’s Republic of China dissolves the Government of Tibet.
1970 - A 7.4 magnitude earthquake kills 1,086 people and destroys 254 villages in Gediz, Turkey.
1979 - America’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurs at Three Mile Island.
1989 - UAE signs a deal with Britain to buy Hawk fighters to strengthen its armed forces.
1990 - Three arrested in London in plot to smuggle US-made nuclear triggering devices to Iraq.
1992 - Emergency rule is imposed in Moldova after weeks of fighting between Romanian loyalists and Slavic separatists.
1995 - Mireille Durocher Bertin, an outspoken lawyer, is assassinated on a Port-au-Prince street in Haiti.
1996 - An earthquake kills 50 people and injures about 100 in Ecuador.
1999 - Nato aircraft widen their strikes against Yugoslavia, targeting ground forces in Kosovo.
2005 - A powerful 8.7 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing around 300.
2006 - The Palestinian parliament approves Hamas’ cabinet.
2008 - Cuban President Raul Castro issues a decree allowing ordinary Cubans to have cell phone service, a luxury previously reserved for the select few.
2012 - The newly-renovated Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Centre for Arabic Language and Islamic Studies opens in Beijing, China.