Today in History for 28th March 2024

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Historical Events

364 - Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor
1834 - Senate censure President Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
1953 - "Stock exchanges open, dikes closed" raises 5,200,000 guilders
1953 - US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1962 - Devastating 8 for 6 spell by West Indian spin bowler Lance Gibbs gives home side innings and 30 run 3rd Test win over India in Bridgetown
1972 - Elvis Presley records his final Top Ten hit, a cover of "Burning Love", written by Dennis Linde, and first recorded by Arthur Alexander

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Famous Birthdays

1905 - Marlin Perkins, American TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), born in Carthage, Missouri (d. 1986)
1911 - Myfanwy Piper, British librettist and art critic, born in London (d. 1997)
1930 - Robert Ashley, American composer, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan (d. 2014)
1931 - Anatoly Lein, Soviet-American chess player (Grandmaster 1968; World Chess Hall of Fame), born in Leningrad, Russia (d. 2018)
1945 - Johnny Famechon, Australian boxer (WBC featherweight champion 1969-70), born in Paris, France (d. 2022)
1988 - Lacey Turner, British soap actress

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Famous Deaths

1893 - Edmund Kirby Smith, American military officer (Confederate Army General), dies at 68
1943 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian-American piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer (Aleko; Piano Concerto No. 3), dies at 69
1974 - Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82
1982 - William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1994 - Albert Goldman, American rock biographer (Lives of John Lennon; Elvis), dies at 66
2003 - (Farrell) "Rusty" Draper, American country and pop singer ("The Shifting, Whispering Sands"; "Are You Satisfied?"), dies of pneumonia at 80

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