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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_28" title="March 28">March 28</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/193" title="193">193</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_Guard" title="Praetorian Guard">Praetorian Guard</a> assassinated Roman emperor <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertinax" title="Pertinax">Pertinax</a></b> and sold the imperial office in an auction to <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didius_Julianus" title="Didius Julianus">Didius Julianus</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1802" title="1802">1802</a> – German astronomer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Wilhelm_Matthias_Olbers" title="Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers">Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers</a> discovered <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Pallas" title="2 Pallas">Pallas</a></b>, the second <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">asteroid</a> ever identified, although it was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_planets" title="List of former planets">considered to be a planet</a> at the time.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933" title="1933">1933</a> – After an on-board fire that may have been the first incident of airliner sabotage, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Airways" title="Imperial Airways">Imperial Airways</a> biplane <i>City of Liverpool</i> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Imperial_Airways_Diksmuide_crash" title="1933 Imperial Airways Diksmuide crash">broke apart in mid-air</a></b>, killing fifteen people.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997">1997</a> – In the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_Otranto" title="Tragedy of Otranto">Tragedy of Otranto</a></b>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Navy" title="Italian Navy">Italian Navy</a> vessel <i>Sibilla</i> collided with the Albanian civilian vessel <i>Kateri i Radës</i>, causing the latter to sink and leading to dozens of deaths.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015" title="2015">2015</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makka_al-Mukarama_hotel_attack" title="Makka al-Mukarama hotel attack">A siege of a hotel</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogadishu" title="Mogadishu">Mogadishu</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shabaab_(militant_group)" title="Al-Shabaab (militant group)">al-Shabaab</a> militants, which began the previous day and killed at least 20 people, ended with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Armed_Forces" title="Somali Armed Forces">Somali Armed Forces</a> recapturing the premises.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Harding" title="Stephen Harding">Stephen Harding</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1134); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Crofton" title="Eileen Crofton">Eileen Crofton</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1919); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_Irving" title="Sybil Irving">Sybil Irving</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1973); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Skolmen" title="Jon Skolmen">Jon Skolmen</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2019)</p>
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