How Many Days Until March 28?

This day in history: March 28

1. 1946

   The US Department of State released the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, a proposal for the international control of nuclear weapons.

2. 1963

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

3. 1968

   Colonel Sun, written by Kingsley Amis, was published, becoming the first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964.

4. 1979

   British prime minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a vote of no confidence after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes during the Winter of Discontent.

5. 1997

   In the Tragedy of Otranto, the Italian Navy vessel Sibilla collided with the Albanian civilian vessel Kateri i Radës, causing the latter to sink and leading to dozens of deaths.

6. 1999

   Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica.

7. 2015

   A siege of a hotel in Mogadishu by al-Shabaab militants, which began the previous day and killed at least 20 people, ended with the Somali Armed Forces recapturing the premises.

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