March 29
March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years ). There are 277 days remaining.
Events
537 - Vigilius was consecrated and enthroned as Pope , replacing Silverius .
1461 - Wars of the Roses : Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England .
1638 - Swedish colonists establish first settlement in Delaware , called New Sweden .
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade at Stockholm 's Royal Opera just 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by 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 abdicated after a coup d'état . At the Diet of Porvoo , Finland 's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia , commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden .
1847 - Mexican-American War : United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege .
1848 - An upstream ice jam stops almost all water flow over Niagara Falls .
1849 - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab
1865 - American Civil War : Battle of Appomattox Court House begins
1867 - 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 Queen Victoria .
1879 - Anglo-Zulu War : Battle of Kambula : British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus .
1882 - The Knights of Columbus are established.
1911 - Designed by John Browning , the M1911 semi-automatic handgun became the standard-issue handgun in the United States Army , and was subsequently widely used in World War I , World War II and the Korean War .
1930 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler .
1941 - World War II : British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces intercepted those of the Italian Regia Marina Peloponnesus coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan .
1945 - World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
1951 - Red Scare : Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage .
1953 - A fire at a nursing home in Largo , Florida kills 35 people.
1961 - The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, DC to vote in presidential elections.
1969 - In Madrid , Spain , four different performers tie for first place at the fourteenth Eurovision Song Contest . The medals are shared by Spain's Salomé singing "Vivo cantando" (I live singing), United Kingdom 's Lulu singing "Boom Bang-a-bang", Netherlands ' Lenny Kuhr singing "De troubadour" (The troubadour), and France 's Frida Boccara singing "Un jour, un enfant" (One day, a child...)
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 . It was launched on November 3 , 1973 .
1981 - First running of the London Marathon
1982 - The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent by Queen Elizabeth II , setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982
1982 - Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney release their single Ebony and Ivory
1984 - The Baltimore Colts of the NFL moved to Indianapolis in the middle of the night.
1985 - The first Care Bears Movie , produced by Canadian animation studio Nelvana Limited , is released in US theatres by The Samuel Goldwyn Company .
1993 - Catherine Callbeck becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island and Canada 's first female premier.
1993 - Edouard Balladur becomes Prime Minister of France
1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 – above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever.
2001 - A chartered Gulfstream III jet crashes into a hillside during approach into Aspen, Colorado , killing 18 people.
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 ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
2006 - Predicted total solar eclipse .
Births
1790 - John Tyler , 10th President of the United States (d. 1862 )
1826 - Wilhelm Liebknecht , journalist and politician (d. 1900 )
1835 - Gustaf Zander , physician (d. 1920 )
1867 - Cy Young , Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1955 )
1874 - Lou Hoover , First Lady of the United States (d. 1944 )
1889 - Warner Baxter , actor (d. 1951 )
1891 - Yvan Goll , lyricist and dramatist (d. 1950 )
1892 - József Cardinal Mindszenty , Hungarian Cardinal (d. 1975 )
1895 - Ernst Jünger , author (d. 1998 )
1897 - Ruby Muhammad , Mother of Islam
1899 - Lavrenty Beria , Soviet Communist leader (d. 1953 )
1900 - John McEwen , eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980 )
1901 - Carl Barks , cartoonist, inventor of Duckburg (d. 2000 )
1901 - Andrija Maurovic , Croatian illustrator (d. 1981 )
1902 - Marcel Aymé , narrator and dramatist, humorist and satirist (d. 1967 )
1902 - William Walton , composer (d. 1983 )
1905 - Philip Ahn , Korean-American actor (d. 1978 )
1908 - Arthur O'Connell , actor (d. 1981 )
1908 - Dennis O'Keefe , American actor (d. 1968 )
1911 - Brigitte Horney , actress (d. 1988 )
1912 - Hanna Reitsch , German aviator (d. 1979 )
1913 - Tony Zale , world champion boxer (d. 1997 )
1913 - R. S. Thomas , Welsh poet (d. 2000 )
1914 - Phil Foster , American actor (d. 1985 )
1916 - Eugene McCarthy , American politician
1918 - Pearl Bailey , singer, actress (d. 1990 )
1918 - Sam Walton , US businessman, founder of Wal-Mart (d. 1992 )
1919 - Eileen Heckart , American actress (d. 2001 )
1927 - John McLaughlin , American political commentator
1929 - Lennart Meri , Estonian writer, politician
1931 - Aleksei Gubarev , cosmonaut
1936 - Judith Guest , American author
1937 - Billy Carter , Presidential brother (d. 1988 )
1940 - Ray Davis (aka Stingray Davis), musician (P-Funk )
1943 - Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou , aka Vangelis, new age musician
1943 - Eric Idle , actor, writer, composer (Monty Python's Flying Circus 1943 - John Major , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1944 - Denny McLain , baseball pitcher
1944 - Terry Jacks , Canadian musician, songrwriter, activist
1945 - Walt Frazier , basketball player
1948 - Bud Cort , American actor
1952 - Teofilo Stevenson , boxer
1954 - Karen Ann Quinlan , right-to-die activist (d. 1985 )
1955 - Earl Campbell , American football star
1955 - Christopher Lawford , American actor
1956 - Kurt Thomas , gymnast
1957 - Christopher Lambert , French actor
1959 - Perry Farrell , musician ("Jane's Addiction ", "Porno for Pyros ")
1960 - Marina Sirtis , actress (Star Trek: The Next Generation 1964 - Elle Macpherson , model
1968 - Lucy Lawless , actress (Xena: Warrior Princess 1976 - Jennifer Capriati , professional tennis player
Deaths
1058 - Pope Stephen X
1772 - Emanuel Swedenborg , philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688 )
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden , after being shot on March 16 (b. 1746 )
1826 - Johann Heinrich Voß , German poet (b. 1751 )
1855 - Henri Druey , member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1799 )
1906 - Slava Raskaj , painter (b. 1878 )
1912 - Robert Falcon Scott , explorer (b. 1868 )
1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn , millionaire and benefactor (b. 1867 )
1937 - Karol Szymanowski , composer (b. 1882 )
1959 - Barthelemy Boganda , first President of the Central African Republic
1972 - Lord J. Arthur Rank , movie theater owner (b. 1888 )
1980 - Mantovani , "easy listening" conductor and arranger (b. 1905 )
1985 - Luther Terry , Surgeon General of the United States
1991 - Lee Atwater , Republican advisor (b. 1951 )
1999 - Joe Williams , American jazz singer, actor
1992 - Paul Henreid , actor (b. 1908 )
1994 - Eugčne Ionesco , Romanian playwright
1994 - Bill Travers , British actor
1999 - Joe Williams , jazz singer (b. 1918 )
2001 - Helge Ingstad , explorer (b. 1899 )
2001 - John Lewis , American jazz pianist
2003 - Dr. Carlo Urbani , discoverer of SARS (b. 1956 )
2004 - Sir Peter Ustinov , British actor (b. 1921 )
2005 - Johnnie Cochran , American lawyer (b. 1937 )
2005 - Grant Johannesen , American concert pianist (b. 1921 )
Holidays and observances
External links
March 28 - March 30 - February 28 (February 29 ) - April 29 -- listing of all days
