#OTD - On 28 March 1774, an advertisement appeared in the #Leicester Journal stating that the building materials of the four gates—North Gate, South Gate, East Gate, and West Gate—would be sold at auction at The Three Crowns Hotel. #MedievalLeicester #History

#OTD in #Minnesota Sports History (1981) The Gopher men’s hockey team loses to Wisconsin 6 – 3 in the NCAA championship. newspapers.com/clip/81635902/

#OtD 28 Mar 1939 the Stanbrook ship left Alicante carrying 3500 refugees fleeing Franco's victory in the Civil War. It went to North African French colonies, where many of the refugees were interned in camps and used as forced labour in the Sahara desert stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10034/…

March 28, 1984: Bob Irsay, owner of the Baltimore Colts, moves the team to Indianapolis. Without any sort of public announcement, Irsay hired movers to pack up the team’s offices in Owings Mills, Maryland, in the middle of the night, while the city of Baltimore slept. #OTD

March 28, 1939: The victorious Nationalists entered Madrid in triumph, and the Spanish Civil War came to an end. Up to a million lives were lost in the conflict, the most devastating in Spanish history. #OTD

March 28, 1915: Leon Thrasher, a 31-year-old mining engineer and native of Massachusetts, drowned when a German submarine, the U-28, torpedoed the cargo-passenger ship Falaba, Thrasher becomes the first American citizen killed in World War I. #OTD

March 28, 1862: Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico Territory when they turn the Rebels back at Glorieta Pass. #OTD

March 28, 1979: One of the worst accidents in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry begins when a pressure valve in the Unit-2 reactor at Three Mile Island fails to close as the core began to dangerously overheat. #OTD

March 28, 1968: A race riot in Memphis, Tennessee interrupts a protest march led by Martin Luther King Jr. in support of striking sanitation workers. #OTD

March 28, 1842: William Harvey Carney, American Civil War soldier and the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor (with the 54th Mass at Battery Wagner in 1863) was born on this day in Norfolk, Virginia. #OTD

#OTD 1909 - Lon Warnecke was born in Mount Ida, AR. “The Arkansas Hummingbird” played for the Cardinals from 1937 to 1941. Warneke is the only major leaguer who has both played and umpired in an All-Star Game. #STLCards

March 28, 1862: Jefferson Davis proposes a conscription bill, shocking many Southerners. #OTD

#Remembered 28/3/1972, Ruby Johnston (35) from Ballintemple, Newtownhamilton, N. Ireland. Housekeeper/childminder burnt to death, by Irish Republican terrorists. Engulfed in flames. Petrol bomb attack travelling home on bus at Lr Irish St, Armagh, 12/2/72. Died 7 weeks later #OTD

#OTD 1913 - The St. Louis Browns make an unusual "trade," sending infielder Buzzy Wares to a minor league team in exchange for the rental of a stadium. Wares was a coach for the Cardinals from 1930 through 1952. #STLCards

#Booksintomovies, Joseph Losey, exceptional director, directed off-beat Modesty Blaise (based on the book/stories by Peter O’Donnell) in 1966 with Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde (born #OTD 1921, d 1999) and Monica Vitti. Uncredited adjustments to the script by Harold Pinter.

#OTD 1899 - August Anheuser Busch Jr. was born in St Louis. MO. "Gussie" was the brewing magnate who built the Anheuser-Busch Companies into the largest brewery in the world by 1957 as company chairman from 1946 to 1975. He lead the charge of Anheuser-Busch purchasing the #STLCards | @budweiserusa

#OTD 2022 - Albert Pujols, the majors' active career leader in all sorts of offensive categories, signs a one-year contract with the Cardinals to finish his Hall of Fame bound career where it all started in 2001. He would finish on a high note, with 24 home runs, 68 RBI's and he ultra-exclusive 700 home run club. #STLCards

#OTD 1919 - Vic Raschi was born in West Springfield, MA. While pitching for the Cardinals on April 23, 1954 at Sportsman's Park, Vic gave up the first career home run to a young slugger named Hank Aaron! #STLCards

#OtD 28 Mar 1919 the state of Arkansas joined most US states in banning anarchism and communism. The law to "define and punish anarchy and… Bolshevism" barred revolutionary activism and red and black flags, with up to six months jail as a punishment stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10033/…

#OTD in 2025: A late try from Jake Thewlis helps Wire come from behind to beat Leeds 16-14 in Super League’s 5000th match. Arron Lindop and Stefan Ratchford had earlier gone over for tries