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28 March

🇮🇳 In India
1737 The Marathas under Baji Rao I attack and defeat the Mughals in the Battle of Delhi.
🌎 Elsewhere
1930 The cities of Constantinople and Angora changed names to Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey.
1933 Nazis order a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.
1941 Virginia Woolf, English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device, died in Lewes, United Kingdom.
1944 Stephen Leacock, Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist, died in Toronto, Canada. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies.
2015 Saina Nehwal became the world's number one female badminton player.
2017 World's largest dinosaur footprint at 1.7 metres found in Kimberley, Western Australia,


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