📜 This Day in History
March 28
193The Praetorian Guard assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax and sold the imperial office in an auction to Didius Julianus.- 1902The Hexham Abbey high-altar cross, amongst the most important works produced that year by the Keswick School of Industrial Art, was unveiled on Good Friday.
- 1935The Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin.
- 1963Civil rights movement: Over one hundred high school students conducted a sit-in protest in Rome, Georgia.
- 1997In the Tragedy of Otranto, the Italian Navy vessel Sibilla collided with the Albanian civilian vessel Kateri i Radës, causing the latter to sink and leading to dozens of deaths.
- 2025A magnitude-7.7 earthquake killed more than 5,000 people in Myanmar and Thailand.
