On This Day: March 28, 2024

Birthdays

1483 Raphael,Italian painter, and architect. Rebuilt St Peters

1660 King George I, Became King of Great Britain in 1714

1902 Flora Robson, English actress

1921 Sir Dirk Bogarde, Stage and screen actor

1935 Michael Parkinson, Broadcaster and TV presenter

1942 Neil Kinnock, Former Labour Party leader

1948 Matthew Corbett, TV Entertainer; the 'Sooty show'

Events

1910 Near Marseilles, France, the first ever seaplane took off

1912 During the annual 'Boat Race', both Oxford and Cambridge boats sank

1917 The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was formed

1945 The last V2 German rocket of World War II fell on London

1964 Radio Caroline, Britains first 'pirate' radio station, began broadcasting from a ship at sea

1969 Dwight D Eisenhower, former President Of the US and wartime General, died

1977 The film 'Rocky', starring Sylvestor Stallone, won an Oscar for best film

1979 A serious radiation leak occured at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US