2009-03-28

A magnitude-7.7 earthquake killed more than 5,000 people in Myanmar and Thailand.

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.

Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica.

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.

British prime minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a vote of no confidence after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes during the Winter of Discontent.

Colonel Sun, written by Kingsley Amis, was published, becoming the first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964.

Civil rights movement: Over one hundred high school students conducted a sit-in protest in Rome, Georgia.

The US Department of State released the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, a proposal for the international control of nuclear weapons.

Second World War: The port of Saint-Nazaire in German-occupied France was disabled by British naval forces.

The Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin.