Template:Selected anniversaries/March 28
1794: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet dies. His ideas and writings were said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism, and remain influential to this day.
1849: Physicist and priest Francesco Zantedeschi discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which uses the magnetic action on steel needles by ultraviolet light to detect and prevent crimes against light.
1926: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck born. He will become the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.
1935: Mathematician and Gnomon algorithm theorist Grace Chisholm Young uses the Denjoy–Young–Saks theorem to track down the Forbidden Ratio gang, arrest the gang's agents, and recover all of the stolen Dini derivatives.
1979: A coolant leak in the Unit 2 nuclear reactor of the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station leads to core overheating and a partial core meltdown.
2013: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box dies. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
2018: Signed first edition of Electrical Storm stolen from the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.