March 28 Birthday

Famous Birthdays on March 28

• Reba McEntire (1955)

  American country music singer and actress with numerous number-one country hits across five decades.

• Vince Vaughn (1970)

  American actor known for Swingers and Wedding Crashers.

• Julia Stiles (1981)

  American actress known for 10 Things I Hate About You and the Bourne film series.

• Lady Gaga (1986)

  American singer and actress known for 'Bad Romance' and an Academy Award-winning performance in A Star Is Born.

This Day in History

• 1834 — The U.S. Senate formally censured President Andrew Jackson over his handling of federal deposits during the Bank War, the only time in U.S. history a president has been censured by the Senate (the censure was later expunged in 1837).

• 1930 — The Turkish cities formerly known internationally as Constantinople and Angora were officially renamed Istanbul and Ankara as part of the country's broader modernization reforms under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

• 1979 — A partial meltdown occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power history.

What March 28 Says About You

March 28 tends to mark moments when an existing name, an existing arrangement, or an existing sense of safety turned out not to hold. The Three Mile Island accident, on this date in 1979, didn't kill anyone directly, but it permanently changed how Americans thought about nuclear power, halting new plant construction in the country for decades and reshaping the entire industry's approach to safety regulation. The Senate's censure of Andrew Jackson on this date in 1834, the only formal censure of a sitting president in U.S. history, was itself a rare acknowledgment that an existing constitutional arrangement between the branches of government had been pushed further than the Senate was willing to accept — though tellingly, the censure was expunged from the record three years later once political winds shifted, a reminder that even formal rebukes aren't always permanent. The renaming of Constantinople and Angora to Istanbul and Ankara, formalized internationally on this date in 1930, was a deliberate break from centuries of prior naming convention, part of a broader project under Atatürk to signal that the old Ottoman order had genuinely given way to something new. Aries governs the date with its characteristic willingness to force a reckoning rather than let an unstable arrangement quietly persist. Reba McEntire, born on this date in 1955, has spent five decades adapting her sound and image repeatedly across a career that began in traditional country and expanded into acting and television without ever losing her core audience — change managed deliberately rather than imposed by crisis. Lady Gaga, born the same day in 1986, built an early career around dramatic reinvention as a stated artistic principle, later successfully reinventing herself again as a dramatic film actress. Two plus eight equals ten, which resolves down to 1 in the numerology system, the digit of independence and new beginnings, echoing a date whose real history keeps marking the exact point where an old arrangement gave way to something new. Bloodstone or diamond, honeysuckle by name — the emblems most often assigned to Aries fit a birthday defined by recognizing exactly when the old version of something no longer holds. Vince Vaughn and Julia Stiles, both also born March 28, built careers largely defined by a single breakout era of late-1990s and early-2000s films, each later working deliberately to expand beyond that initial typecasting rather than let it become permanent. The Three Mile Island accident's most lasting practical consequence was regulatory rather than physical: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission overhauled operator training and emergency response procedures across the entire American nuclear industry in its aftermath, changes still in force at every currently operating U.S. plant. Lady Gaga's later Oscar-winning turn in A Star Is Born required convincing audiences and critics alike that the persona built on outrageous costuming and stagecraft could also carry a quieter, unadorned dramatic role, a genuine test of range rather than a simple image refresh.