Historical timeline for March 28

An earthquake strikes close to Mandalay, Myanmar with a magnitude of 7.7, killing over 5400 people.

The region of Uusimaa (with the capital city Helsinki) is temporarily isolated from the rest of Finland due to increased COVID-19 infections.

At least one million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.

An earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a magnitude of 8.6 and killing over 1000 people.

In a friendly fire incident, two American A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing one soldier.

Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos begins operation.

Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill at least 130 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica.

In South Africa, African National Congress security guards kill dozens of Inkatha Freedom Party protesters.

United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.

A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.

The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by one vote, precipitating a general election.

The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.

An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring at least 1,200.

Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.

Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a student protest.

An Mw 7.4 earthquake in Chile sets off a series of tailings dam failures, burying the town of El Cobre and killing at least 500 people.

Civil rights movement: Over one hundred high school students conduct a sit-in protest in Rome, Georgia.

ČSA Flight 511 crashes in Igensdorf, Germany, killing 52.

The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.

Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.