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March 28
MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Saturday November 22, 2008
March 28 in history:
- 1979: at Three Mile Island, a nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) at one of the nuclear reactors caused the worst nuclear-plant disaster in the United States.
- 1941: Virginia Woolf, one of the most important innovators in modern British fiction, drowned herself.
- 1938: The Spanish Civil War ended with the defeat of the Spanish republic when Madrid fell to Franco's forces.
- 1854: Britain and France declared war on Russia, transforming the Crimean War of 1853–56 from just another in a long series of Russo-Turkish Wars into a major international conflict.
- 1660: George I, elector of Hanover, succeeded to the British throne on the death of Queen Anne; his accession was determined by the Act of Settlement of 1701, which passed over the Roman Catholic Stuart line in favor of the Protestant house of Hanover.
