Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 28

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 * 193 – The Praetorian Guard assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax and sold the imperial office in an auction to Didius Julianus (coin pictured).


 * 1918 – World War I: British and Australian troops defeated German forces at the First Battle of Dernancourt in northern France.
 * 1933 – After an on-board fire that may have been the first incident of airliner sabotage, the Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool broke apart in mid-air, killing fifteen people.
 * 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.
 * 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.


 * Born/died this day: | Flodoard |d|966| Stephen Harding |d|1134| Isabella Markham |b|1527| John Amos Comenius |b|1592| Solomon Foot |d|1866 |James Brudenell |d|1868| Gussie Busch |b|1899| Edmund Muskie |b|1914| Eileen Crofton |b|1919| Harold Agnew |b|1921|John Alderdice, Baron Alderdice |b|1955|Sybil Irving |d|1973 | Jon Skolmen |d|2019