03-28-2006, 08:58 AM
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March 28th
1854 ~ Crimean War: United Kingdom and France declared war on Russia.
1881 ~ Death of Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer.
1903 ~ Birthday of Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist.
1910 ~ Henri Fabre becomes the first man to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
1939 ~ Generalissimo Franco entered Madrid, essentially ending the Spanish Civil War.
1943 ~ Death of Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer and pianist.
1947 ~ The last episode of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio.
1979 ~ A pump in the reactor cooling system fails at Three Mile Island, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown.
1987 ~ Death of Maria von Trapp, Singer.
2004 ~ Death of Peter Ustinov, Actor.
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