On This Day for March 28 - Constantinople renamed Istanbul, Virginia Woolf is featured, and more

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view. March 28 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Virginia Woolf READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1930 Constantinople renamed Istanbul READ MORE   Advertisement Advertisement   MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY 2004: English filmmaker, writer, and humanitarian Sir Peter Ustinov —whose versatile career spanned more than 60 years, during which he excelled in numerous areas of the arts while gaining renown, especially by means of lectures and one-man shows, as a witty raconteur—died at age 82. [Take our actors and acting quiz.] 1985: Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer Marc Chagall, whose works were among the first expressions of psychic reality in modern art, died in France. [ Test your knowledge of art history.] 1936: Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novels of revolution and struggle, was born in Arequipa, Peru. [Take our Nobel laureates in literature quiz.] 1890: American bandleader Paul Whiteman, called the "King of Jazz" for popularizing a musical style that helped to introduce jazz to mainstream audiences during the 1920s and '30s, was born. [ Take our music quiz.] 1472: Painter Fra Bartolommeo, a prominent exponent of the High Renaissance style in early 16th-century Florence whose works included God the Father with SS. Catherine of Siena and Mary Magdalene (1509), was born. [ Test your knowledge of Italian Renaissance art.] 1979: At 4:00 am an automatic valve mistakenly closed at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, culminating in radioactive leakage. [ Read about 10 of the world's worst industrial disasters.] SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY 1986 Lady Gaga American singer-songwriter 1968 Lucy Lawless New Zealand-born actress 1955 Reba McEntire American singer and actress 1942 Daniel C. Dennett American philosopher 1946 Henry Paulson United States official 1936 Amancio Ortega Spanish fashion executive SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY   Advertisement   FOLLOW: To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, click here. Encyclopædia Britannica 325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States © 2021 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Privacy Policy • Help