1658: First enslaved people arrive in Cape Town. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship the Amersfoort, dropped anchor in Table Bay. In her hold, she had a human cargo: 174 slaves. This was the first shipment of slaves to arrive in South Africa and marked the beginning of almost 200 years of slave trade at the Cape.
1910: The first seaplane in history takes off
French inventor Henri Fabre’s Canard (Fabre Hydration) was the first floatplane to take off from water under its power. The first flight measured 457 meters.
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1933: Nazis order a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.
1946: Cold War- The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
1960: Stanley Kramer became the first person to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Kramer was an American film director and producer.
1960: Oliver Reginald Tambo left South Africa shortly after the Sharpeville massacre, on the instruction of the African National Congress (ANC).
The international world strongly sympathized with South Africa in the aftermath of the massacre. Tambo left the country illegally to continue with the struggle from exile.
1963: Alfred Hitchcock’s movie The Birds is released. The film about a swarm of birds wreaking havoc in Bodega Bay, California has become a classic of the horror movie genre.
1964: A pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, began transmitting from a ship in the North Sea. Simon Dee, who later became the first ‘pirate DJ’ to join the BBC was the first voice to be heard on Radio Caroline.
1969: Greek poet Giorgos Seferis speaks out against the military junta.
The Nobel Prize laureate issued his now famous statement against Greece’s repressive right-wing Regime of the Colonels on the BBC World Service.
1979: Nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island. One of the worst accidents in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry begins when a pressure valve in the Unit-2 reactor at Three Mile Island fails to close. Cooling water, contaminated with radiation, drained from the open valve into adjoining buildings, and the core began to dangerously overheat.
A continuous string of nuclear disasters, such as Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986), and Fukushima (2011) continue to raise doubts about the security and environmental benefits of nuclear power.
1985: Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer Marc Chagall, whose works were among the first expressions of psychic reality in modern art, died at age 97.
1995: Bank of Tokyo and Mitsubishi Bank merged to become the world’s largest bank.
1990: Jesse Owens receives a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal. The African American athlete dominated the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, which were held during the reign of Adolf Hitler’s racist nazi regime.
2017: The world’s largest dinosaur footprint was discovered.
The 5.5-foot (1.7 meter) gigantic dinosaur footprint was discovered in Kimberley, Western Australia. Paleontologists also found 21 different types of dinosaur prints on this day, making it the most diverse collection.
2019: The European Union Parliament declared that single-use plastics were to be banned by 2021.
Births on This Day, March 28
Lady Gaga, 36 years
Lady Gaga was born March 28, 1986, in New York City, New York, U.S. American singer-songwriter and performance artist, known for her flamboyant costumes, provocative lyrics, and strong vocal talents. She became the first recording artist in history to have three singles sell over four million copies each online. Her best-known songs include “Judas,” “Bad Romance” and Shallow. In 2018, she starred as Ally in the remake of A Star Is Born alongside Bradley Cooper.
She attended an all-girls school, Convent of the Sacred Heart, in Manhattan before going on to study music at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University for two years before dropping out to manage her career.
Afrikan Boy, 35 years
Olushola Oluwaseun Ajose, better known by his stage name Afrikan Boy, is a Nigerian-born grime artist from the Woolwich district of London. He went viral with a track entitled “One day I Went to Lidl”, recorded at That SP Studios.
Connor Finnerty, 20 years
Dancer, actor, and model who has appeared in commercials and music videos alongside the likes of Meghan Trainor, Derek Hough, and Zac Efron, among others. He originally became known as a dancer after competing on Matt Steffanina’s Dance-Off Juniors show and has been a member of the immaBEAST and Millennium dance companies.
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