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March 28

3 sourced moments from March 28 in history: Britain and France declared war on Russia (1854); Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul (1930); and The Three Mile Island nuclear accident began (1979).

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3 things happened on March 28

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1979 Technology · Energy

The Three Mile Island nuclear accident began

A stuck valve and a string of misread signals melted half a reactor core and froze American nuclear power for a generation.

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1930 Geography · Cities

Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul

A 1930 Turkish postal law made the ancient city's everyday Turkish name its only official one—and refused to deliver mail addressed otherwise.

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1854 History · War & Conflict

Britain and France declared war on Russia

Two great powers entered the Crimean War on the same day, a conflict now remembered for the doomed charge of the Light Brigade.

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