March 28<\/p>\n
1566 \u2013 The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta’s capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, commonly Knights Hospitaller, since 1798 known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 Exploring along the California coastline, Juan Bautista de Anza selects the sites for the Presidio of San Francisco and Mission San Francisco de Asis in present day San Francisco<\/p>\n
1918 \u2013\u00a0 During World War I, General John J. Pershing cancels 42nd ‘Rainbow’ Division’s orders to travel to Rolampont for further training and diverts it to occupy the Baccarat sector of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north eastern France, the first American division in the war to take over an entire sector on its own.<\/p>\n
1920 \u2013 An outbreak of tornados beginning in the Midwest from just east of Springfield Missouri and spanning further from Illinois, Indiana and down to Georgia results in over 150 people killed and 1200 more injured.<\/p>\n
1946 \u2013 During the early days of the Cold War, the U.S. Department of State releases the Acheson\u2013Lilienthal Report,<\/em> outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013\u00a0 In case of Stump v. Sparkman<\/em>, the Supreme Court hands rules that the judge who made a controversial order of involuntary sterilization of a minor woman, requested by her mother, had personal immunity from a lawsuit.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 Due to a coolant leak at the Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the reactor core overheats and partially melts down.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 President George Bush posthumously awards Olympic champion runner, Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 During the invasion of Iraq,\u00a0\u00a0USAF Air National Guard A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft mistake a column of British tanks for a nearby formation of Iraqi tanks, and attacking the British tanks, kills 1 and wounds 5 soldiers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 28 1566 \u2013 The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta’s capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, commonly Knights Hospitaller, since 1798 known as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. 1776 \u2013 Exploring along the California coastline, Juan … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91269,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66286\/revisions\/91269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}