Today In History

Tue., March 28, 2000

In 1834: The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.

In 1854: During the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia.

In 1898: The Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen.

In 1939: The Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco.

In 1942: During World War II, British naval forces raided the Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire.

In 1979: America’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit Two reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.

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