March 28: Serfs Emancipation Day in Tibet
HMS Campbeltown during the St Nazaire Raid
- 193 – Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax and sold the Imperial office in an auction to Didius Julianus.
- 1814 – War of 1812: Off the coast of Valparaíso, Chile, two Royal Navy ships easily captured two American ones.
- 1933 – After an on-board fire that may have been the first incident of airliner sabotage, the Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool broke apart in mid-air, killing fifteen people.
- 1942 – Second World War: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully disabled the key port of Saint-Nazaire (HMS Campbeltown pictured).
- 2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In a friendly fire incident, two members of the United States Air Force attacked the United Kingdom's Blues and Royals regiment, killing one soldier and injuring five.
Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova (b. 1743) · Terence MacSwiney (b. 1879) · Sybil Irving (d. 1973)
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