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Portrait of Marie Salmon

• ... that Marie Salmon (pictured) was condemned to be burned at the stake for a crime she didn't commit, but narrowly avoided execution by claiming she was pregnant?
• ... that Yokohama's articulated tourist buses feature a matte metallic blue livery inspired by the city?
• ... that Ukrainian author Osyp Turiansky's works were suppressed in his homeland?
• ... that a reviewer called "Until the End of Time" "excessively bland"?
• ... that the current defense minister of Yemen Taher al-Aqili was injured in a landmine explosion while serving as chief of staff?
• ... that Montana voters in 1972 chose to keep the death penalty, allow for gambling to be legalized, have a bicameral legislature, and ratify a new constitution?
• ... that photographer John Humble used harsh late afternoon light to flatten the Los Angeles landscape?
• ... that there have been two unsuccessful proposals to make Curitiba Pride intangible cultural heritage?
• ... that "cannibalism, group sex, and snail orgies" hindered a tax avoidance scheme by the son of Tommy Ball?

March 28: Earth Hour (20:30 local time, 2026)

Bust of Pertinax

• 193 – The Praetorian Guard assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax (bust pictured) and sold the imperial office in an auction to Didius Julianus.
• 1646 – Irish Confederate Wars: Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty, signed the First Ormond Peace for the Confederates in exchange for greater freedom of religion.
• 1968 – Colonel Sun, written by Kingsley Amis, was published, becoming the first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica.