This Day in History for March 28

1979 - America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.

1834 - the U.S. Senate voted to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.

1854 - during the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia.

1898 - the Supreme Court, in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, ruled that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen.

1930 - the names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara.

1935 - the notorious Nazi propaganda film "Triumph des Willens" (Triumph of the Will), directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin with Adolf Hitler present.

1939 - the Spanish Civil War effectively ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco.

1941 - novelist and critic Virginia Woolf drowned herself in Lewes, England.

1942 - during World War II, British naval forces raided the Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire in Operation Chariot.

1969 - the 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, died in Washington, D.C., at age 78.

1994 - absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco died in Paris at age 84.