March 28: Teachers' Day in the Czech Republic; Serfs Emancipation Day in Tibet
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
- 193 – Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax and sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
- 1802 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (pictured) discovered 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
- 1920 – An outbreak of 37 tornadoes across the Midwestern and Southern United States left more than 380 people dead.
- 1930 – Turkey changed the name of its largest city Constantinople to Istanbul.
- 1999 – Serbian police and special forces killed at least 89 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica, in the Drenica region of central Kosovo.
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