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March 28th
1915 First American Killed In World War I
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, on its way from Liverpool to West Africa, off the coast
of England. Of the 242 passengers and crew on board the Falaba, 104 drowned. Thrasher, who was employed on the Gold
Coast in British West Africa, was returning to his post there from England as a passenger on the ship.
1941
Cunningham Leads Fateful British Strike At Italy
On this day, Andrew Browne Cunningham, Admiral of the British
Fleet, commands the British Royal Navy's destruction of three major Italian cruisers and two destroyers in the Battle of Cape
Matapan in the Mediterranean. The destruction, following on the attack on the Italian Fleet at Taranto by the British in November
1940, effectively put an end to any threat the Italian navy posed to the British.
1979 Nuclear Accident
At Three Mile Island
At 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979, the worst accident 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. Cooling water, contaminated
with radiation, drained from the open valve into adjoining buildings, and the core began to dangerously overheat.
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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
(1855 - 1950), Americans and Others, 1912
I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time,
I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel
human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the
good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South
Park, Raisins, 2003
There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would
be one of my favorite things!
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2005
People
who are 'ready' give off a different vibe than people who aren't. Animals can smell fear; maybe that's it. The minute
you become ready is the the minute you stop dreaming. Suddenly it's no longer about 'becoming'. Suddenly it's about 'doing'.
Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 28.
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