On a day like today, a March 28, 2008him then Cuba’s new President Raúl Castro allows Cubans to own cell phones, previously reserved exclusively for foreigners and government officials. Days earlier, Raúl Castro’s government had announced that it would lift the ban on buying computers, televisions and videos. The lifting of both bans marked the regime’s first opening up on economic issues.
also the 2On March 8, 1997, a boat full of Albanian refugees sank in the Otranto Canal, south of Italy after colliding with an Italian military navy corvette that was attempting to intercept her. The Albanian ship remained at a depth of 800 meters for almost seven months while the necessary technology was refined to rescue it from the bottom. More than 80 refugees died.
You want to know more? Discover the ephemeris of March 28 and see what happened, who was born on a day like today and who died. Also, don’t miss what’s celebrated, today’s horoscope and saints.
What happened on March 28?
1844: Queen Elizabeth II created the Guardia Civil by royal decree.
1899: Guillermo Marconi establishes the first radiotelegraphic communication between the two banks of the English Channel.
1909: The first ten cars will be put into service in Madrid on a trial basis.
1933: In Germany, the parliament gives Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.
1963: Premiere of the film The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock in New York (USA).
1998: Three Spanish nuns kidnapped by a rebel group in the Congolese city of Goma are released.
2000: A report addressed to the Swedish government confirms the involuntary sterilization of 230,000 women between 1935 and 1996 for “social hygiene reasons”.
2013: Pope Francis will celebrate Mass on Maundy Thursday in the Casal del Marmo youth prison in Rome and wash the feet of twelve young people. It is the first time that a pope has not officiated
Mass on Maundy Thursday in the Lateran Basilica, the cathedral of Rome.
Who was born on March 28?
1921: Dirk Bogarde, British actor and author.
1933: Tete Montoliu, Spanish jazz composer and pianist
1975: Ivan Helguera, Spanish soccer player.
1976: Dave Keuning, American guitarist, of the band The Killers.
1982: Jon Plazaola, Spanish actor and comedian. 1985 – Stanislas Wawrinka, Swiss tennis player
Who died on March 28?
1953: Jim Thorpe, American track and field athlete. 1977 Waldo de los Ríos, Argentine composer.
1976: Richard Arlen, American actor 1985: Marc Chagall, Jewish painter of Russian descent.
2004: Peter Ustinov, British actor.
2007: Tony Scott, American clarinetist.
Horoscope for March 28
Those born on March 28 belong to the zodiac sign. Zodiac Aries.
Saints of March 28th
Today, March 28th, is celebrated St. Castor and St. Dorothy