Today is Thursday, March 28, the 87th day of 2013. There are 278 days left in the year.
1794 ― Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
1859 ― First performance of John Brahms’ first Serenade for orchestra
1866 ― First ambulance goes into service
1922 ― First microfilm device introduced
1930 ― Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara
1939 ― Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down
1959 ― 11 days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet’s government and installs Panchen Lama
1977 ― 49th Academy Awards: “Rocky," Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway win
1993 ― Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031)
1995 ― World's largest bank; Japan’s Mitsubishi Bank & Bank of Tokyo merge