March 29
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March 29 is the 89th day of the year (90th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 276 days remaining after March 29 until the end of the year.
[change] Events
- 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies, after being shot at a masquerade ball.
- 1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates, and the Grand Duchy of Finland goes to Russian control.
- 1848 – Niagara Falls stop flowing for 30 hours, due to ice.
- 1849 – The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
- 1886 – John Pemberton brews the first Coca Cola in Atlanta.
- 1951 – Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
- 1971 – My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is found guilty of premeditated murder.
- 1973 – The last US combat soldiers leave Vietnam.
- 1974 – The Mariner 10 space probe passes by the planet Mercury, sending 2,000 photographs back to Earth.
- 1976 – The last British troops leave the Maldives.
- 1981 – The first London Marathon takes place.
- 1985 – The first Care Bears Movie is released.
- 1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 – above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever.
- 2004 – The Republic of Ireland bans smoking in restaurants, pubs and bars.
- 2004 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO.
- 2006 – A Solar eclipse is seen over the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, Europe and Asia.
- 2008 – The first Earth Hour is observed.
- 2010 – Two female suicide bombers blow themselves up on the Moscow Metro, killing 40 people.
[change] Births
- 1746 – Carlo Buonaparte, father of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1785)
- 1790 – John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
- 1799 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)
- 1826 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)
- 1867 – Cy Young, American baseball player (d. 1955)
- 1874 – Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
- 1900 – John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
- 1916 – Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005)
- 1918 – Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d. 1990)
- 1918 – Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
- 1927 – John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Anerood Jugnauth, President of Mauritius
- 1931 – Norman Tebbit, British politician
- 1937 – Bruno Mora, Italian footballer (d. 1986)
- 1941 – Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist
- 1943 – Eric Idle, English actor and comedian
- 1943 – John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1943 – Vangelis, Greek musician and musician
- 1944 – Terry Jacks, Canadian musician, songwriter, and activist
- 1945 – Walt Frazier, American basketball player
- 1949 – Dave Greenfield, English musician (The Stranglers)
- 1955 – Rolf Lassgard, Swedish actor
- 1957 – Christopher Lambert, French actor
- 1959 – Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2011)
- 1960 – Jo Nesbo, Norwegian author
- 1961 – Amy Sedaris, American actress
- 1963 – Elle Macpherson, Australian model
- 1968 – Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress
- 1971 – Robert Gibbs, former US Press Secretary
- 1972 – Rui Costa, Portuguese footballer
- 1973 – Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer
- 1976 – Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
- 1984 – Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisian fruit seller (d. 2011)
- 1984 – Roman Kienast, Austrian footballer
- 1985 – Maxim Lapierre, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986 – Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer
[change] Deaths
- 1058 – Pope Stephen IX (b. 1020)
- 1368 – Emperor Go-Murakami of Japan (b. 1328)
- 1625 – Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)
- 1772 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)
- 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden (b. 1746)
- 1848 – John Jacob Astor, German-American businessman (b. 1763)
- 1888 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (b. 1813)
- 1891 – Georges Seurat, French painter (b. 1859)
- 1912 – Henry Robertson Bowers, English explorer (b. 1883)
- 1912 – Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (b. 1868)
- 1912 – Edward Adrian Wilson, English explorer (b. 1872)
- 1937 – Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882)
- 1940 – Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and England rugby player (b. 1916)
- 1956 – Infante Alfonso of Spain (b. 1941)
- 1959 – Barthelemy Boganda, President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
- 1981 – Eric Williams, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1911)
- 1982 – Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)
- 1985 – Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (b. 1933)
- 2001 – Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer and archaeologist (b. 1899)
- 2009 – Maurice Jarre, French composer (b. 1924)
- 2011 – Robert Tear, Welsh tenor and conductor (b. 1939)
