1. Kansas became a state on January 29, 1861, but it was not until March 28 of that year that its first legislature convened in Topeka.

2. On March 28, 1874, a group of 30 gunmen led by Jesse James and his brother Frank attempted to rob the First National Bank in Osawatomie. The robbery failed when the bank's president locked himself and his money in the vault.

3. In 1920, the Kansas State Teachers College (now known as Emporia State University) began offering the first radio course in the United States. The course was taught by R.C. McBride and consisted of lectures broadcast over the airwaves.

4. March 28, 1940, was the date of the largest recorded snowfall in Kansas history. The town of Hoxie received 25 inches of snow in a single day, causing widespread damage and disrupting transportation across the state.

5. On March 28, 1953, physicist Edward Teller conducted the first successful test of the hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. Teller, who had previously worked on the Manhattan Project, was born in Budapest, Hungary, and emigrated to the United States in the 1930s.