March 28

• March 28, 193
  Pertinax, Roman Emperor, is assassinated, so rule of Emperor Didius Julianus of Rome begins
• March 28, 593
  Guntram, French king in Burgundy, dies at about age 67
• March 28, 1503
  The Second Lithuanian war with Russia ends with a treaty by which Lithuania lost a fourth of its territory
• March 28, 1776
  Mexican Captain Juan Bautista and Franciscan priest Pedro Font arrive at the tip of San Francisco
• March 28, 1797
  The scrub board, the earliest special-purpose washing device, is patented by Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire
• March 28, 1802
  Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man after Ceres
• March 28, 1812
  By treaty of Bucharest, Russia acquires Bessarabia, the north eastern part of the original principality of Moldavia, in the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War
• March 28, 1917
  Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv and Jaffa by the Ottoman authorities in Palestine
• March 28, 1935
  Triumph of the Will, a propaganda film directed by German screenwriter and director Leni Riefenstahl, which chronicles Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, is premiered at the Berlin Ufa Palace Theate
• March 28, 1949
  Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer, coins the term the "Big Bang", arguing with the Big Bang theory on BBC radio
• March 28, 1959
  Eleven days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government and installs Panchen Lama while Dalai Lama is exiled from Tibet
• March 28, 1994
  Italy's right-wing alliance under Italian media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi wins election