29 March - Definition and Overview

March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years). There are 277 days remaining.

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Events

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.
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.
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.

1930 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
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.
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 were 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

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.

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