This Day In History For March 28, Colts, Three Mile and More

March 28, 2012

1984:Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis

On this day in 1984, Bob Irsay (1923-1997), owner of the once-mighty Baltimore Colts, moves the team to Indianapolis. Without any sort of public announcement, Irsay hired movers to pack up the team’s offices in Owings Mills, Maryland, in the middle of the night, while the city of Baltimore slept. Read more at History.com

DISASTER Reactor overheats at Three Mile Island, 1979

GENERAL INTEREST Spanish Civil War ends,1939

Presidents Eisenhower dies, 1969

HOLLYWOOD Fairbanks and Pickford marry, 1920

OLD WEST De Anza founds San Francisco, 1776

PRESIDENTIAL Congress censures Jackson, 1834

TODAY IN MICHIGAN HISTORY

1820
St. Clair County is created. Acting upon a petition presented to him in 1819, Territorial governor Lewis Cass issued a proclamation setting off and naming St. Clair County. The new county was created from part of Macomb County. The county was named after Arthur St. Clair, the first governor of the Northwest Territory.
Source: Michigan History
1859
Adrian College chartered.
1977
Fifty-nine people were poisoned when they contracted botulism at a Pontiac restaurant, all survived.
Source: Historical Society of Michigan