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March 28

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In 1797, Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine.

In 1834, the U.S. Senate voted to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.

In 1930, the names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara.

In 1939, the Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco.

In 1941, novelist and critic Virginia Woolf died in Lewes, England.

In 1942, during World War II, British naval forces raided the Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire.

In 1943, composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died in Beverly Hills, Ca.

In 1953, athlete Jim Thorpe died in Lomita, Ca.

In 1979, America's worstcommercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit Two reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Middletown, Penn., as a series of human and mechanical failures caused the cooling system to malfunction, damaging the reactor's core and leaking radioactivity.

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"Although computers appear to be taking over the world, there will always be room for human error."
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