Quick glance of 28 March in the pages of History

March 28: Here are the major events that occurred on 28 March….

• 28 March, 1897: Birth of American chemical engineer who invented Pampers disposable diapers. He joined Proctor& Gamble company in 1926. His invention of disposable diapers as a product was created to utilize the clean, absorbent paper available from a pulp mill acquired by the company.
• 28 March, 1910: 1st seaplane takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre).
• 28 March, 1926: Polly Umrigar, Indian cricketer, was born.
• 28 March, 1935: Influential Nazi Propaganda film “Triumph of the Will” released showing Nuremberg rallies, commissioned by Adolf Hitler and directed by Leni Riefenstahl.
• 28 March, 1943: Sundara Sastri Satyamurti, an Indian independence activist and leading Congress politician of Madras Presidency, was born on 19 August 1887 in Thirumayam (Pudukkottai) in present-day Tamil Nadu. He died on 28 March 1943. He is also regarded as the mentor of Madras state chief minister and senior Congress leader K. Kamaraj.
• 28 March, 1963:  First meeting of National Aeronautical Laboratory Executive Council under the Chairmanship of J R D Tata.
• 28 March, 1969: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower died of heart failure aged 78 years.
• 28 March, 1977: Morarji Desai forms Janata Party government in India.
• 28 March, 2005: The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1960.
• 28 March, 2009: The first cases of H1N1 swine flu in the United States occur in two people in California.
• 28 March, 2017: World’s largest dinosaur footprint at 1.7 metres found in Kimberley, Western Australia.