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On This Day · The 87th day of the year

March 28

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.

♈ZodiacAries ◈BirthstoneAquamarine ❀Birth flowerDaffodil

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

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 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.

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

  2. 1862

    American Civil War

  3. 1933

    Imperial Airways

  4. 1939

    Spanish Civil War

  5. 1941

    World War II

  6. 1946

    Cold War

  7. 1963

    Civil rights movement

  8. 1999

    Kosovo War

  9. 2020

    Uusimaa

  10. 2025

    2025 Myanmar earthquake

Famous birthday twins

Born on March 28

Steve Mandanda

b. 1985

Fra Bartolomeo

b. 1472

Maxim Gorky

b. 1868

John Amos Comenius

b. 1592

Lady Gaga

b. 1986

Mario Vargas Llosa

b. 1936

Marina Raskova

b. 1912

Laura Chinchilla

b. 1959

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)

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn 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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