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The Associated Press
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• Today is Thursday, March 28, the 87th day of 2013. There are 278 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On March 28, 1979, America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.
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• On this date:
• In 1834, the U.S. Senate voted to censure President Andrew 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, in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, ruled that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen.
• In 1930, the names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara.
• In 1935, the notorious Nazi propaganda film "Triumph des Willens" (Triumph of the Will), directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin with Adolf Hitler present.
• In 1939, the Spanish Civil War effectively ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco.
• In 1941, novelist and critic Virginia Woolf, 59, drowned herself near her home in Lewes, East Sussex, England.
• In 1943, composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died in Beverly Hills, Calif.
• In 1963, the Alfred Hitchcock film "The Birds" premiered in New York.
• In 1969, the 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, died in Washington D.C. at age 78.
• In 1978, in Stump v. Sparkman, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld, 5-3, the judicial immunity of an Indiana judge against a lawsuit brought by a young woman who'd been ordered sterilized by the judge when she was a teenager.
• In 1990, President George H.W. Bush presented the Congressional Gold Medal to the widow of U.S. Olympic legend Jesse Owens.
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