Today's selected anniversaries: 28th March 2023

Today's selected anniversaries: 28th March 2023

1802:

German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Pallas, the second asteroid ever identified, although it was considered to be a planet at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Pallas

1933:

After an on-board fire that may have been the first incident of airliner sabotage, the Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool broke apart in mid-air, killing fifteen people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Imperial_Airways_Diksmuide_crash

1997:

In the Tragedy of Otranto, the Italian Navy vessel Sibilla collided with the Albanian civilian vessel Kateri i Radës, causing the latter to sink and leading to dozens of deaths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_Otranto

2015:

A siege of a hotel in Mogadishu by al-Shabaab militants, which began the previous day and killed at least 20 people, ended with the Somali Armed Forces recapturing the premises.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makka_al-Mukarama_hotel_attack