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Today in History: March 28

1774 Britain passes the Coercive Act against rebellious Massachusetts.

1864 A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in Charleston, Illinois. Five are killed and twenty wounded.

1908 Automobile owners lobby Congress in support of a bill that calls for vehicle licensing and federal registration.

1917 The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded, Great Britain's first official service women.

1941 English novelist Virginia Woolf throws herself into the River Ouse near her home in Sussex. Her body will not be found until April 18.

1942 A British ship, the HMS Campbeltown, a Lend-Lease American destroyer, which was specifically rammed into a German occupied dry-dock in France, explodes, knocking the area out of action for the German battleship Tirpitz.

1979 A major accident occurs at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear power plant

1999 An American Stealth F117 Nighthawk is shot down over northern Yugoslavia during NATO air strikes.

2020 US President Donald Trump makes grim projection that 240,000 American could die from COVID-19, even with restrictions in place

2021 Mexico revises its COVID-19 death toll up by 60% to more than 321,000 giving it the second highest COVID death toll in the world

2022 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs so called "Don't Say Gay" bill limiting LGBTQ classroom instruction

Born on March 28

1652 Samuel Sewall, British colonial merchant and one of the Salem witch trial judges.

JOTD
A woman, cranky because her husband was late coming home again, decided to leave a note, saying, "I've had enough and have left you. Don't bother coming after me.”

Then she hid under the bed to see his reaction.
After a short while, the husband comes home and she could hear him in the kitchen before he comes into the bedroom.
She could see him walk towards the dresser and pick up the note.
After a few minutes, he wrote something on it before picking up the phone and calling someone.
"She's finally gone...yeah I know, about bloody time, I'm coming to see you, put on that sexy French nightie.
I love you...can't wait to see you...we'll do all the naughty things you like."
He hung up, grabbed his keys and left.
She heard the car drive off as she came out from under the bed.
Seething with rage and with tears in her eyes she grabbed the note to see what he wrote...
"I can see your feet.
We're outta bread: be back in five minutes.