On this day in history - Today, March, 28

Today in History

• 1910 The first seaplane in history takes off

  French inventor Henri Fabre's Canard (Fabre Hydravion) was the first floatplane to take off from wat

• 1963 Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds is released

  The film about a swarm of birds wreaking havoc in Bodega Bay, California has become a classic of the

• 1969 Greek poet Giorgos Seferis speaks out against the military junta

  The Nobel Prize laureate issued his now famous statement against Greece's repressive right-wing Regi

• 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear power plant experiences a partial meltdown and radioactive leak

  The coolant leak was the worst commercial nuclear accident in the United States. A continuous string

• 1990 Jesse Owens receives the Congressional Gold Medal

  The African American athlete dominated the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, which were held during th