March 28th, 1939

Born on March 28th, 1939

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What happened on March 28th, 1939?

March 28th, 1939

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War

What else happened on March 28th?

March 28th, 1979

British prime minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a vote of no confidence after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes during the Winter of Discontent.

March 28th, 1946

The US Department of State released the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, a proposal for the international control of nuclear weapons.

March 28th, 1942

Second World War: The port of Saint-Nazaire in German-occupied France was disabled by British naval forces (ship pictured).

March 28th, 1933

After an on-board fire that may have been the first incident of airliner sabotage, the Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool broke apart in mid-air, killing fifteen people.

March 28th, 1918

World War I: British and Australian troops defeated German forces at the First Battle of Dernancourt in northern France.

March 28th, 1842

The Vienna Philharmonic (pictured) held its first concert, conducted by Otto Nicolai.

March 28th, 1802

German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Pallas, the second asteroid to be identified, but at the time considered to be a planet.

March 28th, 0193

The Praetorian Guard assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax and sold the imperial office in an auction to Didius Julianus (coin pictured).

March 28th, 1935

The Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin.

March 28th, 2015

A siege of a hotel in Mogadishu by al-Shabaab militants, which began the previous day and killed at least 20 people, ended with the Somali Armed Forces recapturing the premises.

March 28th, 2003

Invasion of Iraq: In a friendly fire incident, two members of the United States Air Force attacked the United Kingdom's Blues and Royals regiment, killing one soldier and injuring five.

March 28th, 1999

Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica.

March 28th, 1997

In the Tragedy of Otranto, the Italian Navy vessel Sibilla collided with the Albanian civilian vessel Kateri i Radës, causing the latter to sink and leading to dozens of deaths.

March 28th, 2006

At least one million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 28th

Born on March 28th, 1939

85

Carl-Dieter Spranger

German politician

*March 28th, 1939, Leipzig

64

Vic Vargas

Filipino judoka

*March 28th, 1939, Philippines †July 19th, 2003, Pasay

75

José Dumbo Rodríguez

Mexican association football player (1939-2015)

*March 28th, 1939, Guadalajara †January 1st, 2015

Same Day
Who's birthday is on March 28th?

76

Rolf Zacher

German actor (1941–2018)

*March 28th, 1941, Berlin †February 3rd, 2018, Hamburg

88

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian novelist and writer

*March 28th, 1936, Arequipa

79

Rodrigo Duterte

President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022

*March 28th, 1945, Maasin

38

Lady Gaga

American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1986)

*March 28th, 1986, Lenox Hill Hospital

37

Vaidas Baumila

Lithuanian singer

*March 28th, 1987, Vilnius

57

Kai Abraham

Badminton player

*March 28th, 1967, East Berlin

75

Leslie Valiant

British computer scientist

*March 28th, 1949, Budapest

69

Reba McEntire

American country singer

*March 28th, 1955, McAlester

75

Michael W. Young

American geneticist, chronobiologist

*March 28th, 1949, Miami

86

Arthur Dale Trendall

Australian classical archaeologist (1909-1995)

*March 28th, 1909, Auckland †November 13th, 1995, Melbourne

82

Daniel Dennett

American philosopher

*March 28th, 1942, Boston

24

Aleyna Tilki

Turkish singer

*March 28th, 2000, Konya

39

Steve Mandanda

French and DR Congolese association football player

*March 28th, 1985, Kinshasa

81

Richard Eyre

British actor and director

*March 28th, 1943, Barnstaple

84

Estelle Kohler

British actress

*March 28th, 1940, South Africa

77

Conchata Ferrell

American actress (1943–2020)

*March 28th, 1943, Charleston †October 12th, 2020, Sherman Oaks Hospital

71

Ken Howard

American actor (1944–2016)

*March 28th, 1944, El Centro †March 23rd, 2016, Los Angeles

76

Dianne Wiest

American actress

*March 28th, 1948, Kansas City

42

Jean-François Piot

French racing driver

*March 28th, 1938, 3rd arrondissement of Paris †November 6th, 1980, Morocco

81

Richard Stilgoe

British songwriter, lyricist and musician

*March 28th, 1943, Camberley

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Born in 1939

85

Hans Kloft

German historian of classical antiquity

*April 10th, 1939, Düsseldorf

64

João César Monteiro

Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic

*February 2nd, 1939, Figueira da Foz †February 3rd, 2003, Lisbon

77

Dudley Storey

New Zealand rower

*November 27th, 1939, Wairoa †March 6th, 2017, Auckland

84

Thilo Ulbert

German christian archaeologist

*June 20th, 1939, Augsburg

83

Tina Turner

American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)

*November 26th, 1939, Brownsville †May 24th, 2023, Küsnacht

83

Hans-Christian Ströbele

German lawyer and politician (1939–2022)

*June 7th, 1939, Halle (Saale) †August 29th, 2022, Moabit

78

Oscar Fulloné

Argentine association football player and manager (1939-2017)

*April 4th, 1939, La Plata †May 22nd, 2017, Casablanca

84

Helga Piur

German actress and voice actress

*May 24th, 1939, Berlin

84

Yves Meyer

French mathematician

*July 19th, 1939, Paris

84

Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist,pépiniériste and inventor

*November 18th, 1939, Ottawa

56

Peter Aust

1939-1996 German actor

*March 17th, 1939, Bytom †January 26th, 1996, Bad Wildungen

70

Dixie Carter

American actress (1939–2010)

*May 25th, 1939, McLemoresville †April 10th, 2010, Houston

78

Irio De Paula

Brazilian composer

*May 10th, 1939, Rio de Janeiro †May 23rd, 2017, Rome

78

Peter Grünberg

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

*May 18th, 1939, Plzeň †April 7th, 2018, Jülich

59

Dusty Springfield

British singer (1939–1999)

*April 16th, 1939, London †March 2nd, 1999, Henley-on-Thames

74

Karen Black

American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter (1939-2013)

*July 1st, 1939, Park Ridge †August 8th, 2013, Santa Monica

80

Karel Gott

Czech singer and actor

*July 14th, 1939, Plzeň †October 1st, 2019, Prague

84

Brenda Vaccaro

American actress

*November 18th, 1939, Brooklyn

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

*August 22nd, 1939, Suffern †August 30th, 2019, Los Angeles

84

Jane Alexander

American actress (b. 1939)

*October 28th, 1939, Boston

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No: With 365 days 1939 is a normal year and no leap year.

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