March 28 is the 87th day of the year (88st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 278 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

28 March 1916 IV. The Railway Battalion was formed.

Events

1854 – Crimean War: France declares war on Russia.
1918 – The liberation of Olur from enemy occupation.
1930 – The Turkish Government formally requested foreign countries to use Turkish names for their cities in Turkey. After this date, the Postal Administration did not deliver the letters addressed as Angora or Constantinople to Ankara and Istanbul. (see Ankara (name))
1933 - Hitler orders a boycott of Jews and Jewish-owned stores.
1939 - Madrid is captured by the forces of General Francisco Franco. The Spanish Civil War is over.
1944 – There was an earthquake in and around Adapazarı, killing 2831 people. King of Egypt, Faruk, donated 1000 Egyptian Liras to the earthquake victims.
1947 - The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe is established.
1961 – The law on the submission of the Constitution to the referendum in Turkey was accepted.
1962 – The law allowing the return of 1960 faculty members who were dismissed from their duties by the Military Administration in October 147 in Turkey was accepted in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
1963 – When the release of former President Celal Bayar, who was released on 22 March for health reasons, caused reactions, the decision to postpone his sentence was lifted.
1965 – In Alabama, USA, 25 people marched for civil rights under the leadership of Martin Luther King.
1966 – Cemal Gürsel's Presidency expired, and Cevdet Sunay was elected President instead.
1970 – Gediz earthquake: There was a severe earthquake in the Aegean Region. In the Gediz district of Kütahya, 80 percent of the houses were destroyed and 1086 people died.
1973 – Cevdet Sunay's presidency expired.
1980 – The Process Leading to the 12 September 1980 Coup in Turkey (1979 - 12 September 1980): A captain, a non-commissioned officer and a private were killed in the conflict in Derik district of Mardin. An MIT officer was killed in Istanbul.
1981 – President General Kenan Evren addressed the people in Manisa: “Atatürk gave all the rights of our women at that time and removed them from the status of second-class people. Today, there are those who try to make women second-class people. We will fight them relentlessly.”
1980 – 60 people died as a result of landslide due to flood in Ayvazhacı village of Develi district of Kayseri.
2004 – Local elections were held. The Justice and Development Party became the first party with 41,67 percent of the votes. The Republican People's Party received 18,23 percent and the Nationalist Movement Party 10,45 percent.
2006 – March 2006 Diyarbakir events: 4 people lost their lives as a result of the events that started as a result of the police's intervention in the funeral ceremony of HPG members in Diyarbakir and lasted for 14 days.
2015 – The Battle of Idlib ended. The Conquest Army has captured the city center of Idlib, which has been under the control of the Syrian Army since 2012.

Births

1515 – Teresa of Avila, Spanish Catholic nun and mystic (d. 1582)
1592 – Jan Amos Comenius, Czech writer (d. 1670)
1818 – Wade Hampton III, American Civil War military officer and politician from South Carolina (d. 1902)
1819 – Joseph Bazalgette, English chief engineer (d. 1891)
1840 – Mehmed Emin Pasha, German Jew, physicist, naturalist and African explorer who entered the service of the Ottoman State (d. 1892)
1851 – Bernardino Machado, president of Portugal 1915-16 and 1925-26 (d. 1944)
1862 – Aristide Briand, French politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1932)
1868 – Maxim Gorky, Russian socialist writer (d. 1936)
1884 – Angelos Sikelianos, Greek lyric poet and playwright (d. 1951)
1887 – Dimcho Debelyanov, Bulgarian poet (d. 1916)
1892 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist. 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1968)
1894 – Ernst Lindemann, German colonel (d. 1941)
1897 – Sepp Herberger, German football player and coach (d. 1977)
1899 – Harold B. Lee, 11th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973)
1907 – Lucia dos Santos, Portuguese carmelite nun (d. 2005)
1914 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (d. 1997)
1921 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
1928 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, American politician (d. 2017)
1930 – Mustafa Eremektar, Turkish cartoonist (d. 2000)
1934 – Sixto Valencia Burgos, Mexican cartoonist (d. 2015)
1936 – Amancio Ortega Gaona, Spanish businessman
1936 – Belkıs Özener, Turkish singer
1936 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize laureate
1936 – Veronika Fitz, German actress (d. 2020)
1938 – Genco Erkal, Turkish theater actor
1941 – Alf Clausen, American conductor
1942 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
1942 – Mike Newell, English director and producer
1943 – Conchata Ferrell, American actress (d. 2020)
1944 – Rick Barry, American basketball player
1944 – Ken Howard, American former basketball player and actor (d. 2016)
1945 – Rodrigo Duterte, Filipino lawyer and 16th President of the Philippines
1948 - Dianne Wiest, American actress
1953 – Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian intellectual and politician (d. 1993)
1955 – Reba McEntire, American country music singer and actress
1958 – Elisabeth Andreassen, Swedish-Norwegian singer
1958 – Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1959 – Laura Chinchilla, Costa Rican politician
1960 – José Maria Neves, Cape Verdean politician
1960 – Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French-Belgian writer
1962 – Ayşe Tunaboylu, Turkish theater, TV series and movie actress
1968 – Yekta Kopan, Turkish writer, voice actor and television presenter
1969 – Nazan Kesal, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress
1969 – Raşit Çelikezer, Turkish director, actor, screenwriter, producer and writer
1969 – Brett Ratner, American filmmaker, director, and businessman
1970 – Laura Badea-Cârlescu, Romanian fencer
1970 – Vince Vaughn, American actor
1972 – Nick Frost, English actor, comedian and screenwriter
1973 – Eddie Fatu, Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2009)
1975 – Alper Yılmaz, Turkish basketball player
1975 - Katie Gosselin, American television star
1975 – Iván Helguera, Spanish football player
1977 – Annie Wersching, American actress (d. 2023)
1977 Devin Stiker, American porn star
1981 - Julia Stiles, American actress
1984 – Christopher Samba, French-born Congolese football player
1985 – Steve Mandanda, Congolese-French football player
1985 – Stan Wawrinka, Swiss professional tennis player
1986 – Barbora Strýcová, Czech tennis player
1986 – Lady Gaga, American songwriter, singer, and musician
1987 – Yohan Benalouane, French-born Tunisian national football player
1989 – Uğur Uğur, Turkish football player
1990 – Ekaterina Bobrova, Russian figure skater
1991 – Amy Bruckner, American actress
1992 – Sergi Gómez, Spanish football player
1996 – Benjamin Pavard, French football player
1997 – Yaw Yeboah, Ghanaian football player
2000 – Aleyna Tilki, Turkish singer
2004 – Anna Sherbakova, Russian figure skater

Deaths

193 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (b. 126)
1239 – Go-Toba, 82nd emperor of Japan in traditional succession (b. 1180)
1285 – IV. Martinus was pope of the Roman Catholic Church from February 22, 1281 until his death (b. 1210)
1584 – IV. Ivan, last Knez of Moscow and first tsar of Russia (b. 1530)
1757 – Robert-François Damiens, French assassin (who unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate King Louis XV of France) (b. 1715)
1794 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
1850 – Bernt Michael Holmboe, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1795)
1881 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)
1920 – Şahin Bey, Turkish Nationalist (b. 1877)
1936 – Archibal Garrod, English physician (b. 1857)
1938 – Mehmed Džemaludin Čaušević, Bosnian cleric (b. 1870)
1941 – Virginia Woolf, English writer (b. 1882)
1942 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet and dramatist (b. 1910)
1943 – Sergey Rahmaninov, Russian composer of Tatar-Turkish origin (b. 1873)
1953 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1888)
1967 – Ethem İzzet Benice, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1903)
1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American soldier and politician (b. 1890)
1969 – Ömer Faruk Efendi, son of the last Ottoman Empire Caliph Abdülmecid Efendi and one term President of Fenerbahçe (b. 1898)
1985 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born French painter (b. 1887)
1994 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright (b. 1909)
2004 – Peter Ustinov, English actor, director, writer and winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (b. 1921)
2005 – Fritz Moen, Norwegian prisoner (b. 1941)
2006 – Caspar Weinberger, 15th US Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
2009 – Janet Jagan, Guyanese writer and politician (b. 1920)
2010 – June Havoc, Canadian-born American actress, dancer, theater director, and writer (b. 1912)
2011 – Cüneyt Çalışkur, Turkish artist and playwright (b. 1954)
2012 – Aleksandr Harutyunyan, Soviet and Armenian composer and pianist (b. 1920)
2013 – Richard Griffiths, British film, television and stage actor (b. 1947)
2016 – Daan Myngheer, Belgian cyclist (b. 1993)
2016 – James Noble, American actor (b. 1922)
2017 – Alicia, Austrian-born Spanish noble and princess (b. 1917)
2017 – Ahmed Kathrada, South African politician (b. 1929)
2017 – Christine Kaufmann, German-Austrian actress, writer and businessperson (b. 1945)
2017 – Janine Sotto, Canadian-Québec actress and comedian (b. 1921)
2018 – Oleg Anofriev, Soviet-Russian actor, singer, songwriter, film director and poet (b. 1930)
2018 – Peter Munk, Canadian businessman, investor, and philanthropist (b. 1927)
2019 – Domenico Giannace, Italian politician and trade unionist (b. 1924)
2019 – Damir Salimov, Uzbek film director (b. 1937)
2020 – Fevzi Aksoy, Turkish sports writer, professor of medicine, neurologist and academic (b. 1930)
2020 – Kerstin Behrendtz, Swedish radio host and editor-in-chief (b. 1950)
2020 – John Callahan, American actor (b. 1953)
2020 – Matthew Faber, American actor (b. 1973)
2020 – Chato Galante, Spanish political convict, political activist and politician (b. 1948)
2020 – Rodolfo González Rissotto, Uruguayan professor, historian and politician (b. 1949)
2020 – William B. Helmreich, American sociology professor and author (b. 1945)
2020 – Jan Howard, American country singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1929)
2020 – Pearson Jordan, Barbadian athlete (b. 1950)
2020 – Azam Khan, Pakistani squash player (b. 1924)
2020 – Barbara Rütting, German actress, politician and writer (b. 1927)
2020 – David Schramm, American actor (b. 1946)
2020 – Michel Tibon-Cornillot, French philosopher and anthropologist (b. 1936)
2020 – Salvador Vives, Spanish actor and voice actor (b. 1943)
2020 – William Wolf, American film and theater critic, author (b. 1925)
2021 – Halyna Hai, Ukrainian poet and writer (b. 1956)
2021 – Didier Ratsiraka, Malagasy politician (b. 1936)
2022 – Naci Erdem, Turkish former national football player (b. 1931)

Holidays and special occasions

Withdrawal of Russian and Armenian troops from Olur district of Erzurum (1918)