Saturday, March 28, 2026 is a Saturday. It is day 87 of 2026 (23.8% through the year), ISO week 13, in Q1.
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Saturday, March 28, 2026 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2025: A magnitude-7.7 earthquake killed more than 5,000 people in Myanmar and Thailand.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to March 28.
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Historical Milestones
A magnitude-7.7 earthquake killed more than 5,000 people in Myanmar and Thailand.
2025 Myanmar earthquake →A siege of a hotel in Mogadishu by al-Shabaab militants, which began the previous day and killed at least 20 people, ended with the Somali Armed Forces recapturing the premises.
Makka al-Mukarama hotel attack →Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica.
Kosovo War →In the Tragedy of Otranto, the Italian Navy vessel Sibilla collided with the Albanian civilian vessel Kateri i Radës, causing the latter to sink and leading to dozens of deaths.
Tragedy of Otranto →British prime minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a vote of no confidence after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes during the Winter of Discontent.
James Callaghan →Colonel Sun, written by Kingsley Amis, was published, becoming the first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964.
Colonel Sun →Civil rights movement: Over one hundred high school students conducted a sit-in protest in Rome, Georgia.
Civil rights movement →The US Department of State released the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, a proposal for the international control of nuclear weapons.
United States Department of State →Second World War: The port of Saint-Nazaire in German-occupied France was disabled by British naval forces.
World War II →The Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin.
Propaganda in Nazi Germany →Calculate business days and elapsed calendar time between this date and any other.
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Questions & Answers
Saturday, March 28, 2026 falls on a Saturday.
178 days ago (5 months, 25 days ago). It is day 87 of 2026 with 278 days remaining in the year.
In Roman numerals, Saturday, March 28, 2026 is written as XXVIII.III.MMXXVI (Day.Month.Year format).
The moon phase for this date is Waxing Gibbous (approx. 75% illuminated). The astrological sun sign is Aries.