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Saturday, 28 March 2026

2006

At least 1 million union members, students, and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.

2005

The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1965.

2003

In a "friendly fire" incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the United States Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull.

2000

A Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die in this accident).

1994

In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.

1990

President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.

1979

Operators of Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open following an unexpected shutdown. As a result, enough coolant drains out of the system to allow the core to overheat and partially melt down.

The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government, precipitating a general election.

1978

The US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in ''Stump v. Sparkman'', 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.

1969

Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.

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