Today in History for 28th March 2024
Historical Events
364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor
1834 – Senate censure President Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
1953 – “Stock exchanges open, dikes closed” raises 5,200,000 guilders
1953 – US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1962 – Devastating 8 for 6 spell by West Indian spin bowler Lance Gibbs gives home side innings and 30 run 3rd Test win over India in Bridgetown
1972 – Elvis Presley records his final Top Ten hit, a cover of “Burning Love”, written by Dennis Linde, and first recorded by Arthur Alexander
Famous Birthdays
1905 – Marlin Perkins, American TV host (Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom), born in Carthage, Missouri (d. 1986)
1911 – Myfanwy Piper, British librettist and art critic, born in London (d. 1997)
1930 – Robert Ashley, American composer, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan (d. 2014)
1931 – Anatoly Lein, Soviet-American chess player (Grandmaster 1968; World Chess Hall of Fame), born in Leningrad, Russia (d. 2018)
1945 – Johnny Famechon, Australian boxer (WBC featherweight champion 1969-70), born in Paris, France (d. 2022)
1988 – Lacey Turner, British soap actress
Famous Deaths
1893 – Edmund Kirby Smith, American military officer (Confederate Army General), dies at 68
1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian-American piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer (Aleko; Piano Concerto No. 3), dies at 69
1974 – Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82
1982 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1994 – Albert Goldman, American rock biographer (Lives of John Lennon; Elvis), dies at 66
2003 – (Farrell) “Rusty” Draper, American country and pop singer (“The Shifting, Whispering Sands”; “Are You Satisfied?”), dies of pneumonia at 80