^B{^#!16!28 March^N! Feast day of St Alkelda of Middleham, St Gontran, and St Tutilo.
^B{1910^B} The first seaplane took off near Marseille, S France. ^B{1912^B} Both the Oxford and the Cambridge boats sank in the University boat race. ^B{1930^B} The cities of Angora and Constantinople, in Turkey, changed their names to Ankara and Istanbul respectively. ^B{1939^B} The Spanish Civil War came to an end as Madrid surrendered to General Franco. ^B{1945^B} Germany dropped its last V2 bomb on Britain. ^B{1979^B} The nuclear power station at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, suffered a meltdown in the core of one of its reactors.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Raphael, Italian painter, ^B{1483^B}; St Teresa of Avila, Carmelite nun, ^B{1515^B}; King George I, ^B{1660^B}; Flora Robson, English actress, ^B{1902^B}; Dirk Bogarde, English actor and author, ^B{1921^B}; Neil Kinnock, British politician, ^B{1942^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of Cardigan, leader of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, ^B{1868^B}; Virginia Woolf, English novelist, ^B{1941^B}; Sergei Rachmaninov, Russian composer,^B{ 1943^B}; Marc Chagall, Russian-born French painter, ^B{1985^B}; W C Handy, US blues composer, ^B{1958^B}; Dwight Eisenhower, 34th president of the US, ^B{1969^B}.
