What happened on March 29? There are more than 271 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About March 29
March 29 is the 89th day of the year 2024. There are 277 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday. This day falls under the 13th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Cloverdale, Alabama 35617 sunrise occured at 06:39 AM and sunset occured at 07:11 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aries. The modern birthstone for this month is Aquamarine while the mystical birthstone is Jade.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 306 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For March 29
- 1461Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton – Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
- 1500Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna.
- 1549The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
- 1632Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
- 1638Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.
- 1792King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm’s Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
- 1806Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
- 1809King 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.
- 1831Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.
- 1847Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
- 1849The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
- 1857Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the British rule in India and inspires a long-drawn War of Independence of 1857 also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
- 1865American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
- 1867Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
- 1871The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
- 1879Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
- 1882The Knights of Columbus are established.
- 1886Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1911The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
- 1930Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
- 1936In Germany, Adolf 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.
- 1941The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
- 1941World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
- 1942The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
- 1945World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
- 1946Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico’s leading universities, is founded.
- 1951Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
- 1957The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
- 1961The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
- 1971A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
- 1971My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
- 1973Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
- 1973Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
- 1974NASA’s Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.
- 1982The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
- 1990The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
- 1993Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
- 1999A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
- 1999The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the internet boom.
- 2002In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
- 2004Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
- 2004The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
- 2008Thirty-five countries and over 370 cities join Earth Hour for the first time.
- 2010Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.
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Who Were Born On March 29?
- 1553Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek Renaissance poet
- 1584Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (d. 1648)
- 1602John Lightfoot, English churchman (d. 1675)
- 1668Thomas Coram, Founder of the Foundling Hospital (d. 1751)
- 1713John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
- 1746Carlo Buonaparte, father of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1785)
- 1769Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851)
- 1790John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
- 1799Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)
- 1815Costache Caragiale,Romanian actor,writer 1st director of Craiova’s National Teather
- 1816Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama (d. 1837)
- 1824Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)
- 1826Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)
- 1867Cy Young, American baseball player (d. 1955)
- 1869Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist living in the United States (d. 1943)
- 1870Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (d. 1904)
- 1873Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)
- 1874Lou Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
- 1885Dezső Kosztolányi, Hungarian poet and writer (d. 1936)
- 1888Enea Bossi, Italian-American engineer and aviation pioneer (d. 1963)
- 1889Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)
- 1891Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1980)
- 1891Yvan Goll, French-German writer (d. 1950)
- 1892József Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic cardinal (d. 1975)
- 1895Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
- 1899Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (d. 1953)
- 1900Bill Aston, British racing driver (d. 1974)
- 1900John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
- 1901Andrija Maurović, Croatian illustrator (d. 1981)
- 1902Don Miller, American college football player (d. 1979)
- 1902Marcel Aymé, French writer (d. 1967)
- 1902William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)
- 1905Philip Ahn, American actor (d. 1978)
- 1906E. Power Biggs American concert organist (d. 1977)
- 1907“Braguinha”, Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)
- 1908Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)
- 1908Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (d. 1968)
- 1911Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988)
- 1912Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (d. 1979)
- 1913R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
- 1914Phil Foster, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1916Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005)
- 1916Peter Geach, British philosopher
- 1917Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1947)
- 1918Lê Văn Thiêm, Vietnamese mathematician (d. 1991)
- 1918Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d. 1990)
- 1918Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
- 1919Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1920John Belk, American head of Belk, Inc. (d. 2007)
- 1920Theodore Trautwein, American judge (d. 2000)
- 1927John McLaughlin, American political commentator
- 1927John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
- 1928Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (d. 2005)
- 1929Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (d. 2006)
- 1929Richard Lewontin, American biologist
- 1929Utpal Dutt, Indian actor (d. 1993)
- 1930Anerood Jugnauth, President of Mauritius
- 1931Aleksei Gubarev, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1931Norman Tebbit, British politician
- 1931Sopubek Begaliev, Soviet-era economist and politician (d. 2002)
- 1933Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet
- 1934Paul Crouch, American televangelist
- 1936John A. Durkin, American politician
- 1936Judith Guest, American author
- 1936Mogens Camre, Danish politician
- 1937Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (d. 1988)
- 1939Roland Arnall, American businessman and diplomat (d. 2008)
- 1939Terence Hill, Italian actor
- 1940Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer
- 1940Ray Davis, American musician (d. 2005)
- 1941Eden Kane, British singer
- 1941Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate
- 1941Violeta Andrei, Romanian actress
- 1943Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer
- 1943Sir John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1943Vangelis, Greek musician and composer
- 1944Denny McLain, American baseball player
- 1944Terry Jacks, Canadian musician, songwriter, and activist
- 1945Walt Frazier, American basketball player
- 1946Billy Thorpe, Australian singer (d. 2007)
- 1947Bobby Kimball, American singer
- 1948Bud Cort, American actor
- 1949Dave Greenfield, English Keyboardist of The Stranglers
- 1949John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (d. 1979)
- 1949Keith Simpson, British politician
- 1949Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2007)
- 1950Norman Snow, American actor
- 1952Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer
- 1953Tõnis Palts, Estonian politician
- 1954Dianne Kay, American actress
- 1954Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)
- 1955Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor
- 1955Christopher Lawford, American actor
- 1955Earl Campbell, American football player
- 1955Marina Sirtis, English actress
- 1956Kurt Thomas, American gymnast
- 1956Patty Donahue, American singer (d. 1996)
- 1956Stephen Cole, English journalist
- 1957Christopher Lambert, French actor
- 1957Elizabeth Hand, American writer
- 1958Victor Salva, American film director
- 1959Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
- 1959Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
- 1959Perry Farrell, American musician
- 1961Amy Sedaris, American actress and comedian
- 1961Gary Brabham, Australian racing driver
- 1961Mike Kingery, American baseball player
- 1962Billy Beane American baseball player and executive
- 1962Dan Bittman, romanian singer (Holograf)
- 1963Elle Macpherson, Australian model
- 1964Annabella Sciorra, American actress
- 1964Michael A. Jackson, American politician
- 1965Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (d. 2005)
- 1965Jill Goodacre, American actress and model
- 1965Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete
- 1965William Oefelein, American astronaut
- 1967Brian Jordan, American baseball player
- 1967John Popper, American musician
- 1968Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
- 1968Sue Foley, Canadian singer and guitarist
- 1971Lara Logan, South-African journalist and reporter
- 1971Robert Gibbs, American White House (Jan. 2009- Feb. 2011) press secretary for President Barack Obama
- 1972Alex Ochoa, Cuban-American baseball player
- 1972Junichi Suwabe, Japanese voice actor
- 1972Michel Ancel, French game designer
- 1972Rui Costa, Portugal footballer
- 1973Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer
- 1973Sebastiano Siviglia Italian footballer
- 1974Kristoffer Cusick, American actor
- 1974Marc Gené, Spanish racing car driver
- 1974Rachel Jones, Radio Producer
- 1976Igor Astarloa, Spanish cyclist
- 1976Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
- 1978Aaron Persico, New Zealand-born Italian rugby player
- 1978Pierre Faber, French-born German rugby player
- 1979Estela Giménez, Spanish gymnast
- 1980Amy Mathews, Australian actress
- 1980Bill Demong, American Nordic combined skier
- 1980Bruno Silva, Uruguayan footballer
- 1980China P. Arnold, American convicted murderer
- 1980Kim Tae Hee, South Korean actress
- 1980Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan
- 1981Jlloyd Samuel, West Indian-born footballer
- 1981Megan Hilty, American actress
- 1982Hideaki Takizawa, Japanese artist
- 1983Luiza Sá, Brazilian musician
- 1984Juan Mónaco, Argentine tennis player
- 1984Mai Satoda, Japanese singer
- 1984Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisian vegetable vendor and activist (d. 2011)
- 1985Maxim Lapierre, Canadian ice hockey forward
- 1985Mickey Pimentel, National Football League linebacker
- 1986Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer
- 1987Gianluca Freddi, Italian footballer
- 1988Esther Cremer, German athlete
- 1988Jürgen Zopp, Estonian tennis player
- 1989James Tomkins, English footballer
- 1990Lyle Taylor, British footballer
- 1991Hayley McFarland, American actress
- 1992Chris Massoglia, American actor and dancer
- 1994Sulli Choi, South korean singer and dancer
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Who Died On March 29?
- 1058Pope Stephen IX (b. c. 1020)
- 1368Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)
- 1461Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421)
- 1578Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)
- 1578Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)
- 1625Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)
- 1628Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546)
- 1629Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist (b. 1565)
- 1683Yaoya Oshichi, young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667)
- 1751Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist
- 1772Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)
- 1788Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist (b. 1707)
- 1792King Gustav III of Sweden (b. 1746)
- 1800Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b. 1714)
- 1803Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch/Austrian patron of music (b. 1733)
- 1826Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (b. 1751)
- 1829Cornelio Saavedra, Argentine head of state (b. 1759)
- 1848John Jacob Astor, American businessman (b. 1763)
- 1855Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1799)
- 1873Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (b. 1797)
- 1877Inazuma Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 7th Yokozuna (b. 1802)
- 1888Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (b. 1813)
- 1906Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)
- 1912Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist – member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (b. 1872)
- 1912Henry Robertson Bowers – member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (b. 1883)
- 1912Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer – member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (b. 1868)
- 1924Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer (b. 1852)
- 1934Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire and benefactor (b. 1867)
- 1937Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882)
- 1940Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and famed Rugby Union footballer who played for England.(b. 1916)
- 1948Harry Price, British psychic researcher and writer (b. 1881)
- 1948Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (b. 1881)
- 1956Infante Alfonso of Spain (b. 1941)
- 1957Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888)
- 1959Barthélemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
- 1970Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (b. 1885)
- 1971Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1886)
- 1972Lord J. Arthur Rank, British movie theater owner (b. 1888)
- 1980Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905)
- 1981Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago (b. 1911)
- 1982Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)
- 1982Nathan Twining, USAF general (b. 1897)
- 1985Luther Terry, Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1911)
- 1986Harry Ritz, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)
- 1988Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (b. 1924)
- 1989Bernard Blier, French actor (b. 1916)
- 1991Lee Atwater, American political consultant (b. 1951)
- 1992Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (b. 1908)
- 1994Bill Travers, British actor (b. 1922)
- 1995Jimmy McShane, Irish frontman of the group Baltimora (b. 1957)
- 1995Terry Moore, American baseball player (b. 1912)
- 1996Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944)
- 1996Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director, producer and teacher (b. 1926)
- 1999Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
- 2001Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899)
- 2001John Lewis, American jazz pianist (b. 1920)
- 2002Rachel Levy and Ayat al-Akhras, Israeli and Palestinian children
- 2002Rico Yan, Philippine actor (b. 1975)
- 2003Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (b. 1956)
- 2005Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)
- 2005Miltos Sahtouris, Greek poet (b. 1919)
- 2006Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer (b. 1932)
- 2007Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (b. 1934)
- 2009Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (b. 1975)
- 2009Maurice Jarre, French composer (b. 1924)
- 2009Vladimir Fedotov, Soviet football striker and manager (b. 1943)
- 2011Ângelo de Sousa, Portuguese painter and sculptor (b. 1938)
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