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What Happened In March 1928 In History

Historical Events for March, 1928

  • 12th » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
  • 21st » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic Ocean called Atlantic flight.

Famous Birthdays on March in 1928

  • 1st » Jacques Rivette, French director and screenwriter
  • 2nd » John S. Romanides, Greek priest and author (d. 2001)
  • 3rd » Joe Conley, American actor (d. 2013)
  • 3rd » Pierre Michelot, French bassist (Play Bach Trio) (d. 2005)
  • 3rd » Daphne Slater, English actress (d. 2012)
  • 4th » Samuel Adler (composer) known as Samuel Adler, German-American composer and conductor
  • 4th » Hardin Cox, American politician (d. 2013)
  • 4th » Alan Sillitoe, English author (d. 2010)
  • 5th » J. Hillis Miller, American literary critic
  • 7th » Gilbert Rondeau, Canadian politician (d. 1994)
  • 9th » Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (d. 1990)
  • 10th » Sara Montiel, Spanish actress and singer (d. 2013)
  • 10th » James Earl Ray, American assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 1998)
  • 11th » Albert Salmi, American actor (d. 1990)
  • 12th » Edward Albee, American director and playwright
  • 12th » Thérèse Lavoie-Roux, Canadian politician (d. 2009)
  • 12th » Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2007)
  • 13th » Ellen Raskin, American author and illustrator (d. 1984)
  • 14th » Frank Borman, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
  • 14th » Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (d. 1980)
  • 15th » Bob Wilber, American clarinet player and saxophonist
  • 16th » Karlheinz Böhm, German-Austrian actor (d. 2014)
  • 16th » Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Makuuchi Yokozuna named Yokozuna (d. 2010)
  • 16th » Christa Ludwig, German soprano
  • 17th » William John McKeag, Canadian politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (d. 2007)
  • 18th » Julia Mullock, American-Korean wife of Yi Gu
  • 18th » Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist (d. 2013)
  • 18th » Fidel V. Ramos, Filipino general and politician, 12th President of the Philippines
  • 19th » Hans Küng, Swiss priest, theologian, and author
  • 19th » Patrick McGoohan, American-English actor (d. 2009)
  • 19th » David Lumsden (musician) e.g David Lumsden, English organist and conductor
  • 20th » James P. Gordon, American physicist (d. 2013)
  • 20th » Fred Rogers, American television host (d. 2003)
  • 22nd » Carrie Donovan, American journalist (d. 2001)
  • 22nd » E. D. Hirsch, Jr., American educator, author, and critic
  • 22nd » Ed Macauley, American basketball player (d. 2011)
  • 24th » Byron Janis, American pianist
  • 25th » Jim Lovell, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
  • 27th » Jean Dotto, French cyclist (d. 2000)
  • 27th » Reg Evans, Welsh-Australian actor (d. 2009)
  • 27th » Antonín Tučapský, Czech-English composer
  • 28th » Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American geostrategist and politician, 10th United States National Security Advisor
  • 28th » Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician and theorist
  • 29th » Romesh Bhandari, Pakistani-Indian politician, 13th Foreign Secretary (India) called Foreign Secretary of India (d. 2013)
  • 29th » Keith Botsford, Belgian-American journalist, author, and academic
  • 29th » Vincent Gigante, American boxer and mobster (d. 2005)
  • 30th » Robert Badinter, French lawyer and politician, Ministry of Justice (France) or French Minister of Justice
  • 30th » Tom Sharpe, English-Spanish author (d. 2013)
  • 31st » Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1975)
  • 31st » Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player

Famous Deaths for March 1928

  • 7th » Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)
  • 28th » Nathan Stubblefield, American inventor (b. 1860)

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