March 28, 1981 (Saturday)
- Phil Mahre became the first American to ever win the world championship in skiing.
- Garuda Indonesia Flight 206 was hijacked and flown from Indonesia to Thailand.
- Born: Gareth David-Lloyd, Welsh TV actor (Ianto Jones on Torchwood), in Bettws, Newport
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“One of the most interesting and affecting things [on a difficult return march from a raid into Virginia] is the train of contrabands, old and young, male and female—one hundred to two hundred—toiling uncomplainingly along after and with the army.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)