Once Upon A Time – March 28 – 1930 – Turkish Cities Constantinople And Angora Change Their Names To Istanbul And Ankara

364 Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor

1854 Britain and France declare war on Russia during the Crimean War

1892 William Christie sails from the United States bound for Buddhist Tibet. “By the grace of God I will spend and be spent for my Savior and the salvation of those who are sitting in awful darkness and sin and misery,” he writes. He will become known as the “Apostle of Tibet.”

1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to the Nationalists headed by Francisco Franco

1946 Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.

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1969 Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece

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1896 Umberto Giordano’s opera “Andrea Chenier” premieres at La Scala, Milan with Giuseppe Borgatti singing the title role

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1891 1st world weightlifting championship won by Edward Lawrence in London, England

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1930 Turkish cities Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara

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2017 World’s largest dinosaur footprint at 1.7 metres found in Kimberley, Western Australia