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'''March 29''' is the
88 (number) 88th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (89th in
Leap years). There are 277 days remaining.
Events
*
537 -
Pope Vigilius Vigilius is consecrated and enthroned as
Pope, replacing
Pope Silverius Silverius.
*
1461 -
Wars of the Roses:
Battle of Towton -
Edward of York defeats
Margaret of Anjou Queen Margaret to become
British monarchy King Edward IV of England.
*
1638 -
Sweden Swedish colonists establish the first settlement in
Delaware, called
New Sweden.
*
1792 -
Monarch of Sweden King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight
Masquerade ball masquerade at
Stockholm's
Royal Swedish Opera Royal Opera just 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by
Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden Gustav IV Adolf.
*
1799 -
New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing
slavery in the state.
*
1806 - Construction authorized of the
Great National Pike, better known as the
Cumberland Road, becoming the first
United States federal highway.
*
1809 - King
Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdication abdicates after a
coup d'état. At the
Diet of Porvoo,
Finland's
Riksdag of the Estates four Estates pledge allegiance to
Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the
Grand Duchy of Finland from
Lands of Sweden Sweden.
*
1831 -
Great Bosnian uprising:
Bosniak rebel against
Turkey.
*
1847 -
Mexican-American War:
United States forces led by
General Winfield Scott take
Veracruz (city) Veracruz after a
siege.
*
1849 - The
United Kingdom annexes the
Punjab region Punjab.
*
1857 -
Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th
Regiment,
Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the
British_Raj British rule in India and inspires a long-drawn
War of Independence of 1857 also known as the
Sepoy Mutiny.
*
1865 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Appomattox Court House begins.
*
1867 -
Victoria of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria gives
Royal Assent to the
British North America Act which establishes the
Dominion of Canada on
July 1.
*
1871 - The
Royal Albert Hall is opened by
Victoria of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria.
*
1879 -
Anglo-Zulu War:
Battle of Kambula:
United Kingdom British forces defeat 20,000
Zulus.
*
1882 - The
Knights of Columbus are established.
*
1911 - The
M1911 Semi-automatic self-loading pistol semi-automatic handgun designed by
John Browning becomes the standard-issue handgun in the
United States Army, and is subsequently widely used in
World War I,
World War II, and the
Korean War.
*
1930 -
Heinrich Brüning is appointed
Germany German Chancellor of Germany Reichskanzler.
*
1936 - In
Germany, dictator
Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a
referendum to ratify
Germany's illegal reoccupation of the
Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters. In
1933 all political parties and political liberty had been abolished.
*
1941 -
World War II:
British Royal Navy and
Royal Australian Navy forces intercept those of the
Italian ''
Regia Marina'' off the
Peloponnesus coast of
Greece in the
Battle of Cape Matapan.
*1941 - 80% of
United States American AM radio stations change frequencies under the terms of
North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement NARBA.
*
1945 -
World War II: Last day of
V-1 flying bomb attacks on
England.
*
1951 -
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit
espionage.
*
1961 - The
Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of
Washington, DC to vote in
President of the United States presidential elections.
*
1966 -
Muhammad Ali deafeats
Canadian George Chuvalo in fifteen rounds in
Toronto,
Canada.
*
1971 -
My Lai massacre:
Lt. William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
*1971 - A
Los Angeles, California jury recommends the
death penalty for
Charles Manson and three female followers.
*
1973 -
Vietnam War: The last
United States soldiers leave
South Vietnam.
*
1974 -
NASA's
Mariner 10 becomes the first
spaceprobe to fly by
Mercury (planet) Mercury. It was launched on
November 3,
1973.
*
1982 - The
Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the
Royal Assent by
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the
Queen of Canada to proclaim the
Constitution Act, 1982
*
1993 -
Catherine Callbeck becomes
premier of
Prince Edward Island and
Canada's first female
premier.
*1993 -
Edouard Balladur becomes
Prime Minister of France.
*
1998 - A series of strong tornados hit southern
Minnesota, leaving two dead.
*
1999 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 – above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever.
*
2004 -
Bulgaria,
Estonia,
Latvia,
Lithuania,
Romania,
Slovakia and
Slovenia join
NATO as full members.
*2004 - The
Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to
smoking ban ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
*
2006 -
Solar eclipse of 2006 March 29 total solar eclipse observed from 08:36 GMT (09:36 BST) to 11:48 GMT (12:48 BST) in Eastern
Brazil, West and North
Africa,
Turkey,
Central Asia and
Mongolia
*2006 - Singer
Tom Jones (singer) Tom Jones is knighted by Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II.
Births
*
1584 -
Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (d.
1648)
*
1602 -
John Lightfoot, English churchman (d.
1675)
*
1713 -
John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d.
1789)
*
1769 -
Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d.
1851)
*
1790 -
John Tyler, 10th
President of the United States (d.
1862)
*
1824 -
Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d.
1899)
*
1826 -
Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d.
1900)
*
1867 -
Cy Young, baseball player (d.
1955)
*
1873 -
Tullio Levi-Civita, italian mathematician (d.
1941)
*
1874 -
Lou Hoover,
First Lady of the United States (d.
1944)
*
1889 -
Warner Baxter, American actor (d.
1951)
*
1891 -
Yvan Goll, French-German writer (d.
1950)
*
1892 -
József Cardinal Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic cardinal (d.
1975)
*
1895 -
Ernst Jünger, German author (d.
1998)
*
1897 -
Ruby Muhammad, American wife of
Elijah Muhammad
*
1899 -
Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (d.
1953)
*
1900 -
John McEwen, eighteenth
Prime Minister of Australia (d.
1980)
*
1901 -
Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (d.
1981)
*
1902 -
Marcel Ayme Marcel Aymé, French writer (d.
1967)
* 1902 -
William Walton, English composer (d.
1983)
*
1905 -
Philip Ahn, Korean-American actor (d.
1978)
*
1908 -
Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d.
1981)
* 1908 -
Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (d.
1968)
*
1911 -
Brigitte Horney, German actress (d.
1988)
*
1912 -
Hanna Reitsch, German pilot (d.
1979)
*
1913 -
Tony Zale, American boxer (d.
1997)
* 1913 -
Ronald Stuart Thomas R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d.
2000)
*
1916 -
Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d.
2005)
*
1918 -
Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d.
1990)
* 1918 -
Sam Walton, American businessman (d.
1992)
*
1919 -
Eileen Heckart, American actress (d.
2001)
*
1927 -
John McLaughlin (host) John McLaughlin, American political commentator
* 1927 -
John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
2004)
*
1929 -
Lennart Meri,
President of Estonia (d.
2006)
*
1931 -
Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut
*
1936 -
Judith Guest, American author
* 1936 -
Mogens Camre, Danish politician
*
1937 -
Billy Carter, Presidential brother (d.
1988)
*
1940 -
Ray Davis (musician) Ray Davis, American musician (
P-Funk)
*
1940 -
Astrud Gilberto, brazilian singer
*
1941 -
Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
*
1943 -
Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer
* 1943 -
John Major,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* 1943 -
Vangelis, Greek musician
*
1944 -
Terry Jacks, Canadian musician, songwriter, and activist
* 1944 -
Denny McLain, baseball player
*
1945 -
Walt Frazier, American basketball player
*
1947 -
Bobby Kimball, American rock singer (
Toto)
*
1948 -
Bud Cort, American actor
*
1949 -
Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist
*
1952 -
Teofilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer
*
1954 -
Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d.
1985)
*
1955 -
Earl Campbell, American football star
* 1955 -
Christopher Lawford, American actor
*
1956 -
Patty Donahue, lead singer of
The Waitresses (d.
1996)
*
1957 -
Christopher Lambert, French actor
*
1959 -
Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
*
1959 -
Perry Farrell, American musician (
Jane's Addiction and
Porno for Pyros)
*
1960 -
Marina Sirtis, English actress
*
1963 -
Elle Macpherson,
Australian model
*
1967 -
Brian Jordan, baseball player
*
1967 -
John Popper, American musician (
Blues Traveler)
*
1968 -
Lucy Lawless,
New Zealand actress and singer
*
1976 -
Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
*
1980 -
John Tennyson, American, Obscure New York/Vancouver based writer
*
1981 -
Jlloyd Samuel,
West Indies West Indian-born footballer
*
1983 -
Justin Tuck, NFL football player
*
1984 -
Valentine Rei, Russian TV personality
*
1993 - Steven Melendes
*
1999 -
Atiana de la Hoya,
reality television show reality TV star; daughter of
Shanna Moakler and
Oscar de la Hoya
Deaths
*
1058 -
Pope Stephen X
*
1368 -
Emperor Go-Murakami,
Emperor of Japan (b.
1328)
*
1461 -
Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b.
1421)
*
1578 -
Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b.
1524)
* 1578 -
Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b.
1527)
*
1625 -
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b.
1549)
*
1628 -
Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b.
1546)
*
1772 -
Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b.
1688)
*
1751 -
Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist
*
1792 - King
Gustav III of Sweden, (shot) (b.
1746)
*
1800 -
Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b.
1714)
*
1826 -
Johann Heinrich Voss Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b.
1751)
*
1855 -
Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (b.
1799)
*
1873 -
Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (b.
1797)
*
1888 -
Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (b.
1813)
*
1906 -
Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (b.
1878)
*
1912 -
Robert Falcon Scott Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (b.
1868)
*
1934 -
Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire and benefactor (b.
1867)
*
1937 -
Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b.
1882)
*
1957 -
Joyce Cary, Northern Irish author (b.
1888)
*
1959 -
Barthelemy Boganda, first
President of the Central African Republic (b.
1910)
*
1970 -
Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist
*
1972 - Lord
J. Arthur Rank, movie theater owner (b.
1888)
*
1980 -
Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b.
1905)
*
1982 -
Carl Orff, German composer (b.
1895)
*
1991 -
Lee Atwater, American politicial consultant (b.
1951)
*
1992 -
Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (b.
1908)
*
1993 -
Alfred Preis, designer of
USS Arizona Memorial (b.
1911)
*
1994 -
Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (b.
1912)
* 1994 -
Bill Travers, British actor (b.
1922)
*
1999 -
Joe Williams (jazz singer) Joe Williams, American singer (b.
1918)
*
2001 -
Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b.
1899)
* 2001 -
John Lewis (pianist) John Lewis, American jazz pianist (b.
1920)
*
2003 -
Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (SARS) (b.
1956)
*
2005 -
Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b.
1937)
* 2005 -
Grant Johannesen, American pianist (b.
1921)
* 2005 -
Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b.
1968)
Holidays and observances
*Festival of
Ishtar.
*
Youth Day in
Taiwan
Liturgical feasts
*
St. Bertold (d.1179)
*
St. Eustace
*
St. Jonas (d. 327)
*
St. Ludolf of Ratzeburg (d.1250)
*
Blessed Hugo (d.1239)
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
This Day in History
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March 28 -
March 30 -
February 28 (
February 29) -
April 29 --
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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