HISTORY DATES AND EVENTS FOR MARCH 28

March 28, 1994:
In South Africa, Zulus and African National
Congress supporters battle in central
Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.

March 28, 1939:
Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco
Franco conquers Madrid.

March 28, 1913:
Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos
Aires copyright treaty.

March 28, 1809:
Battle of Medelin

March 28, 1802:
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers
2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.

March 28, 1797:
Nathaniel Briggs patented a washing machine.

March 28, 1930:
The cities of Constantinople and Angora
changed names to Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey.

March 28, 1939:
The Spanish Civil War ended.

March 28, 1941:
Author Virginia Woolf drowned herself.

March 28, 1979:
Nuclear power plant accident at Three
Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

March 28, 2000:
Supreme Court rules unanimously that an
anonymous tip does not justify a
stop-and-frisk action against a person.