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On This Day · The 87th day of the year

March 28

March 28 carries 10 recorded events spanning between 1802 and 2025. Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.

♈ZodiacAries ◈BirthstoneAquamarine ❀Birth flowerDaffodil

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed July 13, 2026

What happened on March 28?

March 28 is the 87th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1802 and 2025. Famous people born on March 28 include Steve Mandanda, Fra Bartolomeo and Maxim Gorky.

The shape of the day

As calendar dates go, March 28 keeps a short memory — its record stays close to the present. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where conflict is a recurring thread.

Aries is the sign for March 28 — read more on the Aries page, or see March's birthstone & birth flower.

Released on March 28

Movies, games, albums & shows

2026

  • TV Love Beyond the Grave

2025

  • Game PlayM2M
  • Game Etheria: Restart
  • Game Inzoi

2024

  • Game Pepper Grinder
  • Game Open Roads
  • Game Maniac

2023

  • Game MLB The Show 23
  • Game Terra Nil
  • Game Brotato
  • Game Crime Boss: Rockay City

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1802

    Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers

    Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.

  2. 1862

    American Civil War

    American Civil War: In the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory. The battle began on March 26.

  3. 1933

    Imperial Airways

    The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.

  4. 1939

    Spanish Civil War

    Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.

  5. 1941

    World War II

    World War II: First day of the Battle of Cape Matapan in Greece between the navies of the United Kingdom and Australia, and the Royal Italian navy.

  6. 1946

    Cold War

    Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.

  7. 1963

    Civil rights movement

    Civil rights movement: Over one hundred high school students conduct a sit-in protest in Rome, Georgia.

  8. 1999

    Kosovo War

    Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill at least 130 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica.

  9. 2020

    Uusimaa

    The region of Uusimaa (with the capital city Helsinki) is temporarily isolated from the rest of Finland due to increased COVID-19 infections.

  10. 2025

    2025 Myanmar earthquake

    An earthquake strikes close to Mandalay, Myanmar with a magnitude of 7.7, killing over 5400 people.

Famous birthday twins

Born on March 28

Steve Mandanda

b. 1985

French footballer

Fra Bartolomeo

b. 1472

Italian painter

Maxim Gorky

b. 1868

Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright

John Amos Comenius

b. 1592

Czech bishop and educator

Lady Gaga

b. 1986

American singer-songwriter and actress

Mario Vargas Llosa

b. 1936

Peruvian writer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate

Marina Raskova

b. 1912

Russian pilot and navigator

Laura Chinchilla

b. 1959

Costa Rican politician, 46th President of Costa Rica

Deaths

  • 2004Peter Ustinov
  • 1994Eugène Ionesco
  • 1969Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • 1941Virginia Woolf
  • 1584Ivan the Terrible
  • 193Pertinax

Holidays & observances

  • —Christian feast day: Christopher Wharton
  • —Christian feast day: Jeanne-Marie de Maille
  • —Christian feast day: Józef Sebastian Pelczar
  • —Christian feast day: Priscus
  • —Christian feast day: Pope Sixtus III
  • —Christian feast day: Stephen Harding
  • —Christian feast day: March 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • —Serfs Emancipation Day (Tibet)

Historical facts, event summaries, and biographical lines above are adapted from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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