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29 Mar 1549
The city of Salvador da Bahia the first capital of Brazil is founded
29 Mar 1632
Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returns Quebec to French control after the English seized it in 1629
29 Mar 1638
1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
29 Mar 1799
New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state
29 Mar 1806
Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike better known as the Cumberland Road becoming the first United States federal highway
29 Mar 1809
King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup dtat. At the Diet of Porvoo Finlands four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
29 Mar 1827
20000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
29 Mar 1831
Great Bosnian uprising Bosniak rebel against Turkey.
29 Mar 1849
Great Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India
29 Mar 1852
Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day
29 Mar 1860
Dion Boucicaults Colleen Bawn premieres in NYC
29 Mar 1864
Great Britain gives the Ionian Islands back to Greece
29 Mar 1864
Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas
29 Mar 1865
-Apr 9th] Appomattox campaign Virginia 7582 killed
29 Mar 1865
Battle of Lewiss Farm [alt. Quaker Road Gravelly Run] in Dinwiddie County Virginia begins (Union victory)
29 Mar 1867
British North America Act (Canadian constitution) is given Royal Assent
29 Mar 1867
Congress first approves building of Lincoln Memorial
29 Mar 1878
40th Grand National John Jones aboard 71 chance Shifnal wins by 2 lengths from Martha
29 Mar 1879
Tsjaikovskis opera Jevgeni Onegin premieres in Moscow
29 Mar 1882
Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men
29 Mar 1889
51st Grand National Jockey Tommy Beasley wins his third GN aboard Irish 2-time runner-up Frigate at 81
29 Mar 1895
57th Grand National Joe Widger aboard 101 chance Wild Man From Borneo wins by 1.5 lengths from Cathal
29 Mar 1901
Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister in Australias first parliamentary election
29 Mar 1901
63rd Grand National Jockey Arthur Nightingall wins his 3rd GN aboard 91 shot Grudon in a howling snowstorm
29 Mar 1912
74th Grand National Ernie Piggott wins aboard 41 co-favourite Jerry M
29 Mar 1927
Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona
29 Mar 1928
Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (NYC)
29 Mar 1929
Stanley Cup Final Madison Square Garden Boston Bruins beat New York Rangers 2-1 for a 2-0 series sweep Bostons first Championship
29 Mar 1930
Heinrich Brning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
29 Mar 1930
89h Grand National 10-year-old 1008 shot Shaun Goilin ridden by jockey Tommy Cullinan wins by a neck from Mellerays Belle
29 Mar 1934
Bank of Travail in Belgium socialist workers movement bankrupt
29 Mar 1935
94th Grand National Frank Furlong wins aboard Reynoldstown at 221 stallion repeats with back-to-back victory the following year
29 Mar 1936
10000 watch the 200-inch mirror blank passing through Indianapolis
29 Mar 1936
Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
29 Mar 1941
1st performance of Benjamin Brittens Requiem Symphony
29 Mar 1941
3rd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Wisconsin beats Washington State 39-34
29 Mar 1941
WPAT radio in NJ begins broadcasting (country music format)
29 Mar 1942
British cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
29 Mar 1942
British destroyer HMS Campbeltown explodes in St Nazaire 400 Germans die
29 Mar 1942
Bombing of Lbeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city
29 Mar 1943
Meat (784 gramweek 2 kilogram for GIs) butter & cheese rationed in US during WW II
29 Mar 1945
World War II Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England
29 Mar 1946
Test Cricket debuts of Lindwall Miller & Tallon
29 Mar 1947
Beggars Holiday closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 111 performances
29 Mar 1947
101st Grand National 1001 Irish outsider Caughoo ridden by 35-year-old jockey Eddie Dempsey wins by 20 lengths from Lough Conn
29 Mar 1948
Yanks & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17 spring training game
29 Mar 1951
King & I opens at St James Theater NYC for 1246 performances
29 Mar 1958
112th Grand National Arthur Freeman aboard 181 bet Mr. What wins by 30 lengths from Tiberetta
29 Mar 1959
Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore
29 Mar 1961
23rd Amendment to the US Constitution ratified allowing Washington D.C. residents to vote in presidential elections
29 Mar 1961
KCPT TV channel 19 in Kansas City MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
29 Mar 1962
Argentine President Arturo Frondizi flees from the army
29 Mar 1962
Jack Paars final appearance on the Tonight Show
29 Mar 1963
Final episode of soap opera Young Doctor Malone
29 Mar 1966
Its a Bird... Its Superman opens at Alvin NYC for 129 performances
29 Mar 1967
WCMU TV channel 14 in Mt. Pleasant MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
29 Mar 1968
Students seize building at Bowie State College
29 Mar 1969
Communist New Peoples Army found in Philippines
29 Mar 1969
123rd Grand National Eddie P. Harty Sr. aboard 1009 chance Highland Wedding wins by 12 lengths from Steel Bridge
29 Mar 1969
14th Eurovision Song Contest Salome for Spain (Vivo cantando) Lulu of United Kingdom (Boom Bang-a-Bang) Lenny Kuhr of Netherlands (De troubadour) and Frida Boccara of France (Un jour un enfant) all win in Madrid
29 Mar 1970
Look to the Lilies opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 performances
29 Mar 1970
Manchester City of England win 10th European Cup Winners Cup against Grnik Zabrze of Poland 2-1 in Vienna
29 Mar 1971
1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
29 Mar 1971
Chile president Allende nationalizes bankscopper mines
29 Mar 1971
Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europes 1st sexology professor
29 Mar 1971
Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
29 Mar 1971
WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
29 Mar 1973
US troops leave Vietnam 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
29 Mar 1974
Mariner 10s 1st fly-by of Mercury returns photos
29 Mar 1976
38th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Indiana beats Michigan 86-68
29 Mar 1976
8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
29 Mar 1979
Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball v Pakistan at WACA
29 Mar 1979
Caryl Churchills Cloud Nine premieres in London
29 Mar 1979
Delhi beats Karnataka by 399 runs to win Crickets Ranji Trophy
29 Mar 1979
Last day of Test cricket for Pakistani cricketer Mushtaq Mohammad
29 Mar 1980
134th Grand National American amateur rider Charlie Fenwick wins aboard 401 outsider Ben Nevis only 4 from 30 starters finish race
29 Mar 1981
Peter Stones musical Woman of the Year opens at Palace Theater NYC for 770 performances
29 Mar 1981
AIAW Womens Basketball Championship Louisiana Tech beat Tennessee 79-59 in Eugene
29 Mar 1982
2nd Golden Raspberry Awards Mommie Dearest wins
29 Mar 1982
44th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship North Carolina beats Georgetown 63-62
29 Mar 1982
Delhi 707 beat Karnataka 705 on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
29 Mar 1985
Christos Sartzetakis elected President of Greece
29 Mar 1986
Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
29 Mar 1987
6th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Tennessee routs Louisiana 67-44
29 Mar 1987
Yitzak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Likud Party
29 Mar 1987
7th Golden Raspberry Awards Howard the Duck wins
29 Mar 1987
PGA Tournament Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass Sandy Lyle of Scotland defeats Jeff Sluman on the 3rd hole of a sudden-death playoff to become the first international player to win the title
29 Mar 1988
Oba Oba opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 46 performances
29 Mar 1988
US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras
29 Mar 1989
1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL
29 Mar 1989
1st US private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight (NM)
29 Mar 1989
I M Peis pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris
29 Mar 1989
Michael Milken junk bond king indicted in NY for racketeering
29 Mar 1992
Conversations with My Father opens at Royale NYC for 462 performances
29 Mar 1992
12th Golden Raspberry Awards Hudson Hawk wins
29 Mar 1992
Herb Gardners Conversations With My Father premieres in NYC
29 Mar 1992
Ice Dance Championship at Oakland won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (CIS)
29 Mar 1992
Ice Pairs Championship at Oakland won by Mishuktienok & Dmitriev (CIS)
29 Mar 1992
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oak won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)
29 Mar 1992
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Viktor Petrenko (CIS)
29 Mar 1992
NCAA Basketball Womens Championship at Kemper Arena KC
29 Mar 1992
PGA Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass Davis Love III wins by 4 strokes ahead of runners-up Ian Baker-Finch Phil Blackmar Nick Faldo and Tom Watson.
29 Mar 1992
Nabisco Dinah Shore Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Dottie Pepper (Mochrie) wins the first of her 2 major titles in a sudden-death playoff with Juli Inkster with par on the 1st extra hole
29 Mar 1993
Queensland all out for 75 v NSW in Sheffield Shield Final
29 Mar 1994
Serbs & Croats sign a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia
29 Mar 1994
13th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech 60-59
29 Mar 1995
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM
29 Mar 1996
10th Soul Train Music Awards Patti Labelle Boyz II Men
29 Mar 1996
Cleveland Browns choose new name Baltimore Ravens
29 Mar 1996
NY Yankees beats NY Mets 7-3 in an exhibition game
29 Mar 1997
1st game at Turner Field Atlanta Braves beats Yanks 2-0 (exhibition)
29 Mar 1997
PBA National Championship Won by Rick Steelsmith
29 Mar 1998
17th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Tennessee beats Louisiana Tech 93-75
29 Mar 1998
Vasco da Gama Road bridge opens in Lisbon Portugal as the longest bridge in Europe
29 Mar 1998
PGA Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass Justin Leonard recovers from 5 strokes back to finish 2 strokes ahead of runners-up Glen Day and Tom Lehman
29 Mar 1998
Nabisco Dinah Shore Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Pat Hurst wins her only major title 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Helen Dobson after sinking a 5-foot birdie putt at the final green
29 Mar 1999
61st NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Duke 77-74
29 Mar 1999
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 - above the 10000 mark for the first time ever
29 Mar 2004
Bulgaria Estonia Latvia Lithuania Romania Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members
29 Mar 2004
The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places including bars and restaurants
29 Mar 2010
Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour killing 40
29 Mar 2013
10 people are killed and 31 are injured by a blast outside the US consulate in Pakistan
29 Mar 2013
23 people are killed by coordinated bombings on Shiite mosques in Iraq
29 Mar 2013
36 people are killed after a 16-floor building collapses in Dar es Salaam Tanzania
29 Mar 2013
UN regulation of international arms trade is blocked by North Korea Iran and Syria
29 Mar 2013
Soyuz TMA-08M sets a new record of 6 hours in orbit before docking with the International Space Station
29 Mar 2013
American horse Animal Kingdom wins the Dubai World Cup
29 Mar 2014
First same-sex couples marry in the UK as a result of the passing of The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013
29 Mar 2015
Cricket World Cup Australia defeats fellow host New Zealand by 7 wickets to win at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
29 Mar 2015
Nigerian General Election - voting is extended to a 2nd day. death toll from Boko Haram attacks at 43
29 Mar 2017
Mans body found inside a 7m long reticulated python in Sulawesi Indonesia
29 Mar 1860
Dion Boucicaults play Colleen Bawn premieres in NYC
29 Mar 1873
English FA Cup Final Lillie Bridge London Wanderers beat Oxford University 2-0 second consecutive title
29 Mar 1879
English FA Cup Final Kennington Oval London Old Etonians beat Clapham Rovers 1-0 Charles Clerke scores winner
29 Mar 1930
89h Grand National 10-year-old 1008 shot Shaun Goilin ridden by jockey Tommy Cullinan wins by a neck from Mellerays Belle
29 Mar 1941
3rd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Wisconsin beats Washington State 39-34 Badgers forward John Kotz is named tournament Most Outstanding Player
29 Mar 1976
38th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Indiana beats Michigan 86-68 first time 2 teams from same conference (Big Ten) play in title game
29 Mar 1978
The Carol Burnett Show last airs on CBS in the US having won 25 Emmy Awards
29 Mar 1987
6th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Tennessee routs Louisiana 67-44 Lady Vols guard Tonya Edwards MOP
29 Mar 1998
17th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Tennessee beats Louisiana Tech 93-75 Volunteers 3-peat completing undefeated season (390)
29 Mar 1998
WrestleMania XIV FleetCenter Boston MA Stone Cold Steve Austins wins his first WWF Heavyweight tile against Shawn Michaels
29 Mar 1999
61st NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Duke 77-74 Huskies first title in first title game
29 Mar 2015
Cricket World Cup Melbourne (MCG) Australia defeats fellow host New Zealand by 7 wickets to win their 5th title Player of Series Mitchel Starc
29 Mar 2015
WrestleMania XXXI Levis Stadium Santa Clara CA (76976) Seth Rollins beats Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns in impromptu triple threat match to capture WWE Heavyweight title
29 Mar 1968
Students seize building at Bowie (Maryland) State College
29 Mar 1969
Communist New Peoples Army founded in the Philippines
29 Mar 1989
1st US private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico
29 Mar 1867
US Congress first approves building of Lincoln Memorial
29 Mar 1927
Henry Segrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona
29 Mar 1930
Heinrich Brning is appointed German Chancellor
29 Mar 1946
Australian cricket bowlers Bill OReilly (514) and Ernie Toshack (412) rout NZ for 42 in one-off Test in Wellington Test debuts of greats Ray Lindwall Keith Miller & Don Tallon
29 Mar 1975
Lady Marmalade by Labelle reaches 1 on US singles chart
29 Mar 1992
Ice Dance Championship in Oakland California won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (CIS)
29 Mar 1992
Ice Pairs Championship in Oakland California won by Mishuktienok & Dmitriev (CIS)
29 Mar 1992
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oakland California won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)
29 Mar 1992
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Oakland California won by Viktor Petrenko (CIS)
29 Mar 1993
French government of douard Balladur forms
29 Mar 1996
10th Soul Train Music Awards Patti Labelle Boyz II Men win
29 Mar 2015
Cricket World Cup Melbourne (MCG) Australia defeats fellow host New Zealand by 7 wickets to win their 5th title Player of Series Mitchell Starc
29 Mar 2021
Megaship Ever Given freed after nearly a week stuck in and blocking the Suez Canal with at least 369 vessels waiting to pass though
29 Mar 1799
New York passes gradual abolition law saying children of enslaved mothers are born free but still owe free service to masters until they are 25 if female and 28 if male
29 Mar 1948
Drachtster Boys soccer team forms in Drachten Netherland
29 Mar 1948
New York Yankees & Boston Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17 spring training game
29 Mar 1955
Linguist Yuri Knorosov defends his masters thesis in Moscow expanding on his new phonetic method to decipher the Mayan script (first announced in article Soviet Ethnology 1952) [1]
29 Mar 1966
Charles Strouse and Lee Adams musical Its a Bird... Its A Plane...Its Superman opens at Alvin Theatre NYC runs for 129 performances
29 Mar 1976
8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State University students in 1970
29 Mar 1996
Cleveland Browns choose new name for their relocated team - Baltimore Ravens
29 Mar 2010
Archaeological site of the Mayan city of Chichen Itza purchased by the Mexican state of Yucatn from a private landowner
29 Mar 2022
BA.2 version of Omicron is now the dominant form of COVID-19 in America according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention [1]
29 Mar 2022
In a major victory for Ukraine Russia announces it is withdrawing its badly mauled forces from around Ukraines capital Kyiv
29 Mar 2022
New study of Pluto finds evidence of cryovolcanoes and ice lava from NASAs New Horizons footage 2015 [1]
29 Mar 2022
US F.D.A. authorizes a second Pfizer or Moderna booster shot for people over 50 or immunocompromised [1]
29 Mar 1827
20000 people attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
29 Mar 2012
George Galloway is elected as MP for Bradford West in a by-election
29 Mar 2015
ICC Mens Cricket ODI World Cup Melbourne Cricket Ground Australia Australia win their fourth title with 7 wicket win over New Zealand 101 balls remaining Player of the Match James Faulkner (AUS) 336
29 Mar 2022
US President Joe Biden signs the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law making lynching a federal hate crime after over 200 attempts to pass similar legislation since 1900 [1]
29 Mar 2023
Researchers warn crucial deep Antarctic ocean currents could collapse by 42% by 2050 stopping nutrient-dense water from flowing north accelerating ice melt and further warming the worlds oceans [1]
29 Mar 2023
United Arab Emirates leader and ruler of Abu Dhabi Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan names his eldest son Khaled bin Mohamed crown prince of Abu Dhabi [1]
29 Mar 1638
First permanent white settlement in Delaware Fort Christina (now Wilmington) is founded by Swedish Lutherans
29 Mar 1804
Thousands of white people are massacred in Haiti
29 Mar 1827
20000 people attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna Austria
29 Mar 1831
Bosniaks rebel against the Ottoman Empire in the Great Bosnian uprising
29 Mar 1986
Records by The Beatles officially go on sale in Russia more than two decades after their release in the West
29 Mar 1995
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago Illinois on WCKG 105.9 FM
29 Mar 1999
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 10000 for the first time ever
29 Mar 2004
The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all workplaces including bars and restaurants
29 Mar 2005
The Walt Disney Company and Miramax Films co-founders Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein announce they will not renew the brothers management agreement when it expires in September
29 Mar 2015
ICC Mens Cricket ODI World Cup Melbourne (MCG) Australia win their fourth title with 7 wicket win over New Zealand 101 balls remaining Player of the Match James Faulkner (AUS) 336
29 Mar 2022
US FDA authorizes a second Pfizer or Moderna booster shot for people over 50 or immunocompromised [1]
29 Mar 1516
Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area establishing the first Jewish ghetto in the citys the Cannaregio district.
29 Mar 1638
Peter Minuit and the first Swedish immigrants found the Swedish colony of New Sweden on the Delaware Peninsula
29 Mar 1997
1st MLB game at Turner Field in Atlanta Georgia Braves beat New York Yankees 2-0 in a pre-season exhibition game