On This Day (March 28)

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• 193 – Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman Emperor Pertinax and sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
• 845 – According to the Legendary Norse saga, Viking raiders under Ragnar Lodbrok captured Paris and held the city for a huge ransom.
• 1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceased to exist and became part of the Russian Empire.
• 1862 – American Civil War: An invasion of New Mexico Territory by the Confederate States Army was halted in the Battle of Glorieta Pass.
• 1943 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist died. (b. 1873)
  
  Piano Concerto No. 2, Third Movement Allegro scherzando (Part 1)
  
  
  
  Piano Concerto No. 2, Third Movement Allegro scherzando (Part 2)
  
  
• 1979 – British Prime Minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a motion of no confidence by the House of Commons after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes by trade unions during the "Winter of Discontent".
• 1979 - In Pennsylvania, a pump in the reactor cooling system fails in the Three Mile Island accident, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown.
• 1985 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter died. (b. 1887)
  
  
  I and the Village. 1911. Oil on canvas

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193 – Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman Emperor Pertinax and sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus

Did that make Didius Julianus's son heir to the throne?

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His successor was Septimius Severus, a Roman general and favorite of the army.