Timeline Monday 12 March 1928

Events on Monday 12 March 1928 2

• 1928 – 2016 Edward Albee (1928-2016) Died 16 September 2016, aged 88 Albee was an American playwright best known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and other works exploring the darker undercurrents of American domestic life. He won three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama over his career. His plays remain widely staged and studied.
• 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse Dam failure floods the Santa Clara River valley The St. Francis Dam in northern Los Angeles County failed just before midnight. The flood that followed killed more than 400 people. It was one of the worst American civil engineering disasters of the 20th century and ended William Mulholland's career.