March 28

On This Day In History
	1930: Constantinople renamed Istanbul Built as Byzantium about 657 BC, then renamed Constantinople in the 4th century AD after Constantine the Great made the city his capital, the Turkish city of Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.
The Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmed Mosque) with its distinctive ensemble of six minarets, Istanbul
Biography Of The Day
	Fra Bartolomeo Painter Fra Bartolomeo, a prominent exponent of the High Renaissance style in early 16th-century Florence whose works include God the Father with SS. Catherine of Siena and Mary Magdalene (1509), was born this day in 1472.
God the Father with SS. Catherine of Siena and Mary Magdalene
More Events On This Day In History
1979	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.
	1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, died in Washington, D.C.
	1939 Francisco Franco, leader of the Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War, captured the capital city of Madrid en route to his overthrow of the democratic Spanish republic.
	1920 American motion-picture actors Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks were wed.
1890	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.