On This Day:
Saturday March 28, 2015 This is the 87th day of the year, with 278 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: fire The original source of fire undoubtedly was lightning, and such fortuitously ignited blazes remained the only source of fire for aeons. For some years Peking man, about 500,000 BC, was believed to be the earliest unquestionable user of fire; evidence uncovered in Kenya in 1981 and in South Africa in 1988, however, suggests that the earliest controlled use of fire by hominids dates from about 1,420,000 years ago. Not until about 7000 BC did Neolithic man acquire reliable fire-making techniques, in the form either of drills, saws, and other friction-producing implements or of flint struck against pyrites. Even then it was more convenient to keep a fire alive permanently than to reignite it.
Holidays Feast day of St. Alkelda of Middleham, St. Gontran, and St. Tutilo.
Czech Republic: Teachers' Day.
Libya: British Bases Evacuation Day.
Events 1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine.
1854 - During the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia.
1881 - P.T. Barnum and James Bailey merged their circuses to form the "Greatest Show on Earth."
1898 - The Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen.
1922 - Bradley A. Fiske of Washington, D.C. patented a microfilm reading device.
1930 - The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara.
1939 - The three-year Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco.
1979 - America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred as the Unit-2 reactor suffered a meltdown in its core at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania.
2002 - The Arab League agreed on a peace plan that offered Israel normal relations in exchange for a full withdrawal from lands taken in war and establishing a Palestinian state.
Births 1811 - Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, first male saint of the United States.
1899 - August Anheuser Busch, Jr., American beer magnate, baseball team owner.
1907 - Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American Hollywood talent agent.
Deaths 2004 - Peter Ustinov, actor, director, and writer.
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