What happened on 28 March?

5 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1184 BCE The death of Hector Iliad 22: three times round the walls, the scales of Zeus, Athena's trick — and Achilles drags the body behind his chariot as Andromache watches from the wall.
2. 1184 BCE Achilles fights the river Scamander Iliad 21: choked with corpses, the river god himself rises against Achilles — who is saved only when Hephaestus sets the plain ablaze.
3. 1854 Britain and France declare war on Russia For the first time since Waterloo, Britain goes to war with a European great power — and with France, so long the enemy, as an ally. The object is to prop up the Ottoman Empire and
4. 1979 Three Mile Island accident Partial meltdown at a Pennsylvania reactor; deepens American distrust of nuclear power.
5. 1963 The Birds (film) Without explanation, the birds of Bodega Bay turn on its people — Hitchcock's apocalyptic thriller of mechanical and trained birds.