Notable Historical Events on March 29th
March 29th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
502 |
King Gundobar of Burgundy delegates royal power |
1461 |
Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses) |
1549 |
The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded. |
1632 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629. |
1638 |
1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans) |
1673 |
English King Charles II accepts Test Act: Roman Catholics excluded from public functions |
1792 |
King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera just 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf. |
1795 |
Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna |
1798 |
Republic of Switzerland forms |
1799 |
New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state. |
1804 |
Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti |
1806 |
Construction is 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 abdicates 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. |
1827 |
20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna |
1831 |
Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey. |
1847 |
12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico |
1848 |
Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam |
1849 |
Great Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India |
1850 |
SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die |
1852 |
Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day |
1860 |
Dion Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn" premieres in NYC |
1864 |
Great Britain gives the Ionian Islands back to Greece |
1864 |
Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas |
1865 |
-Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, VA, 7582 killed |
1865 |
Battle of Quaker Road, VA |
1867 |
British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes |
1867 |
Congress first approves building of Lincoln Memorial |
1871 |
Royal Albert Hall opened by Queen Victoria in London |
1879 |
Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow |
1882 |
Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men |
1886 |
Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Coke |
1897 |
Japan adopts Gold Standard |
1901 |
Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister in Australia's first election of its parliament |
1906 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in 2 games |
1912 |
Capt Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far" |
1919 |
Stanley Cup: Mont (NHL) & Seat (PCHA) win 2 games each with 1 tie, 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic |
1924 |
Bayern & Vatican reach accord |
1927 |
Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona |
1928 |
Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (NYC) |
1929 |
Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep NY Rangers in 2 games |
1930 |
Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler. |
1932 |
Jack Benny debuts on radio, on Ed Sullivan's New York interview program |
1934 |
Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist workers' movement bankrupt |
1936 |
10,000 watch the 200-inch mirror blank passing through Indianapolis |
1936 |
Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates |
1940 |
Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title |
1941 |
1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Requiem Symphony" |
1941 |
3rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Wisconsin beats Wash State 39-34 |
1941 |
WPAT radio in NJ begins broadcasting (country music format) |
1942 |
British cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea |
1942 |
British destroyer HMS Campbeltown explodes in St Nazaire: 400 Germans die |
1942 |
German submarine U-585 sinks |
1942 |
The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city. |
1943 |
Meat( 784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's), butter & cheese rationed in US during WW II |
1945 |
World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England. |
1945 |
Movie star Jimmy Stewart is promoted to full colonel, one of the few Americans to rise from private to colonel in four years |
1946 |
1st Test Cricket between Australia & NZ |
1946 |
Test Cricket debuts of Lindwall, Miller & Tallon |
1947 |
"Beggar's Holiday" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 111 perfs |
1948 |
Drachtster Boys soccer team forms in Drachten |
1948 |
Yanks & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17, spring training game |
1949 |
Turkey recognizes Israel |
1951 |
"King & I" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1246 performances |
1951 |
23rd Academy Awards - "All About Eve", Judy Holliday & J Ferrer win |
1951 |
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of spying |
1953 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open |
1959 |
"Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe & Jack Lemmon premieres |
1959 |
Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore |
1959 |
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1960 |
Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres |
1961 |
23rd Amendment to the US Constitution ratified, allowing Washington DC residents to vote in presidential elections |
1961 |
After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge |
1961 |
KCPT TV channel 19 in Kansas City, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
Argentine Pres Frondizi flees from the army |
1962 |
Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight Show" |
1963 |
Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone" |
1966 |
"It's a Bird... It's Superman" opens at Alvin NYC for 129 perfs |
1966 |
Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1967 |
WCMU TV channel 14 in Mt. Pleasant, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
Students seize building at Bowie State College |
1969 |
Communist New People's Army found in Philippines |
1970 |
"Look to the Lilies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 perfs |
1970 |
Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II |
1970 |
Serious disturbances in Derry, North Ireland, following a march to commemoration the Easter Rising |
1971 |
1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre |
1971 |
Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines |
1971 |
Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor |
1971 |
Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced |
1971 |
WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1973 |
Dave Cowens wins NBA MVP |
1973 |
US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution |
1974 |
Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos |
1975 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Karsten-Ping Golf Open |
1975 |
Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers |
1976 |
38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan 86-68 |
1976 |
8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students |
1976 |
48th Academy Awards - "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", Jack Nicholson & Louise Fletcher wins |
1979 |
Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball v Pakistan at WACA |
1979 |
Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine" premieres in London |
1979 |
Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy |
1979 |
Last day of Test cricket for Mushtaq Mohammad |
1981 |
"Woman of the Year" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 770 performances |
1981 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
1981 |
Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110m |
1981 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1982 |
2nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Mommie Dearest wins |
1982 |
44th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats Georgetown 63-62 |
1982 |
54th Academy Awards - "Chariots of Fire", Henry Fonda & Katharine Hepburn win |
1982 |
Delhi 707 beat Karnataka 705 on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy |
1984 |
NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis |
1984 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1985 |
Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece |
1985 |
Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist |
1986 |
Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia |
1987 |
6th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee routs Louisiana 67-44 |
1987 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic |
1987 |
Wrestlemania III-93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant |
1987 |
Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party |
1987 |
7th Golden Raspberry Awards: Howard the Duck wins |
1988 |
"Oba Oba" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 46 performances |
1988 |
US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras |
1989 |
1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL |
1989 |
1st US private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight (NM) |
1989 |
61st Academy Awards - "Rainman", Dustin Hoffman & Jodie Foster win |
1989 |
9th Golden Raspberry Awards: Cocktail wins |
1989 |
I M Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris |
1989 |
Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in NY for racketeering |
1992 |
"Conversations with My Father" opens at Royale NYC for 462 perfs |
1992 |
12th Golden Raspberry Awards: Hudson Hawk wins |
1992 |
21st Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Dottie Mochrie |
1992 |
Herb Gardner's "Conversations With My Father" premieres in NYC |
1992 |
Ice Dance Championship at Oakland won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (CIS) |
1992 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Oakland won by Mishuktienok & Dmitriev (CIS) |
1992 |
Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Oak won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA) |
1992 |
Men's Fig Skating Championship in Oakland won by Viktor Petrenko (CIS) |
1992 |
NCAA Basketball Women's Championship at Kemper Arena, KC |
1993 |
65th Academy Awards - "Unforgiven", Al Pacino & Emma Thompson win |
1993 |
Queensland all out for 75 v NSW in Sheffield Shield Final |
1993 |
Actress Elizabeth Taylor presented the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for work for AIDs causes at 65th Academy Awards |
1994 |
Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys |
1994 |
Last day of Test cricket for Allan Border |
1994 |
Serbs & Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia |
1995 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM |
1996 |
10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men |
1996 |
Cleveland Browns choose new name, Baltimore Ravens |
1996 |
NY Yankees beats NY Mets 7-3 in an exhibition game |
1997 |
1st game at Turner Field Atlanta, Braves beats Yanks 2-0 (exhibition) |
1997 |
PBA National Championship Won by Rick Steelsmith |
1998 |
17th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Kemper Arena KC |
1998 |
27th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship |
1998 |
Vasco da Gama Road bridge opens in Lisbon, Portugal as the longest bridge in Europe |
1999 |
61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at ThunderDome St Petersburg |
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 ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants. |
2010 |
Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40. |
2013 |
10 people are killed and 31 are injured by a blast outside the US consulate in Pakistan |
2013 |
23 people are killed by coordinated bombings on Shiite mosques in Iraq |
2013 |
36 people are killed after a 16-floor building collapses in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
2013 |
UN regulation of international arms trade is blocked by North Korea, Iran, and Syria |
2013 |
Soyuz TMA-08M sets a new record of 6 hours in orbit before docking with the International Space Station |
2013 |
American horse, Animal Kingdom, wins the 2013 Dubai World Cup |
2014 |
Andrej Kiska is elected President of Slovakia |
2016 |
US Says It Has Unlocked iPhone Without Apple |
2016 |
Secret Service says 'no' to guns at Republican convention |
2016 |
Shots fired in US Capitol complex, gunman caught |
2017 |
Scotland Votes to Demand a Post-'Brexit' Independence Referendum |
2017 |
Trump Signs Executive Order Unwinding Obama Climate Policies |
2017 |
Felony charges for 2 who secretly filmed Planned Parenthood |
2017 |
China's Tencent buys 5% stake in Tesla |
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