TODAY IN HISTORY

MARCH 28

 1941:Troubled English novelist and modernist literary critic Virginia Woolf, author of Mrs. Dalloway and To The Lighthouse, drowns herself in the River Ouse, near her home in East Sussex. She was 59.  

1964: Founded by Rohan O’Rahilly, Radio Caroline, the United Kingdom’s first all-day “pirate” radio station, begins broadcasting on Easter Sunday from the former Danish ferry Fredericia, moored in international waters off the English coast. The pirate radio station is a response to the growing demand for popular music and a protest against the BBC’s de facto broadcasting monopoly in the United Kingdom.

1984: Owner Robert Irsay moves the Baltimore Colts NFL team to Indianapolis in the middle of the night, in order to avoid losing his team to the state of Maryland through eminent domain. Twenty-eight years later, many Baltimore fans are still bitter over the unannounced departure of their city’s football team.