Romesh Bhandari was an Indian diplomat and administrator. Bhandari, during his career, served in various positions, including as the Foreign Secretary, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Governor of Tripura, Goa and Uttar Pradesh.

1928Keith Botsford, Belgian-American journalist, author, and academic (died 2018)^[†]

Keith Botsford was an American/European writer, professor emeritus at Boston University and editor of News from the Republic of Letters.

1928Vincent Gigante, American boxer and mobster (died 2005)^[†]

Vincent Louis Gigante, also known as "Chin", was an American mobster who was boss of the Genovese crime family in New York City from 1981 to 2005. Gigante started out as a professional boxer who fought in 25 matches between 1944 and 1947. He then started working as a Mafia enforcer for what was then the Luciano crime family, forerunner of the Genovese family. Gigante was one of five brothers. Three of them, Mario, Pasquale, and Ralph, followed him into the Mafia. Only one brother, Louis, stayed out of the crime family, instead becoming a Catholic priest. Gigante was the shooter in the failed assassination of longtime Luciano boss Frank Costello in 1957. In 1959, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for drug trafficking, and after sharing a prison cell with Costello's rival, Vito Genovese, Gigante became a caporegime overseeing his own crew of Genovese soldiers and associates based in Greenwich Village.

Headlines from March 29, 1928

Murray Hill Wins Long Zoning Battle; Appeals Court Bars 21-Story Building

GERMAN FLIERS FORCED TO WAIT; Rain and Heavy Ground Cause Them to Postpone Start Over Atlantic. PLANNED START AT DAWN Koehl Intends to Head Straight for New York and Not for Newfoundland.

RADIO PHONE LINKS PARIS AND NEW YORK; OPENING THE NEW YORK-PARIS TELEPHONE SERVICE.

4,019,890-SHARE DAY IN CONFUSED MARKET; Stocks Swing Violently Up and Down as Wall Street Turns to New Favorites. RADIO HITS 174 , BUT DROPS Motors Down 4 , as Oils and Rails Spurt--Throngs Pack the Excited Financial District.

Coolidge Invited to Summer On Lookout Mountain

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