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100 years anniversary | ||||
29 Mar 1924 | Jules de Corte: Blind Dutch ballad singer | |||
29 Mar 1924 | Bayern and Vatican reach accord | |||
29 Mar 1924 | Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer and conductor (b. 1852) | |||
29 Mar 1924 | Jules de Corte blind Dutch ballad singer | |||
29 Mar 1924 | Charles Villiers Stanford Irish composer/writer, dies at 71 | |||
29 Mar 1924 | Bayern & Vatican reach accord | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
29 Mar 1949 | Michael Brecker: Rocker (Brecker Brothers) | |||
29 Mar 1949 | Turkey recognizes Israel | |||
29 Mar 1949 | John Spenkelink, American murderer (d. 1979) | |||
29 Mar 1949 | Keith Simpson, English historian and politician | |||
29 Mar 1949 | Pauline Marois, Canadian social worker and politician, 30th Premier of Quebec | |||
29 Mar 1949 | Dave Greenfield, English Keyboard player (The Stranglers) | |||
29 Mar 1949 | Michael Brecker, American saxophonist and composer (Steps Ahead and Parliament-Funkadelic) (d. 2007) | |||
29 Mar 1949 | Kayahan, Turkish singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2015) | |||
29 Mar 1949 | birth Dave Greenfield, The Stranglers, keyboards, (1986 UK No.2 single 'Golden Brown' and over 20 over other UK Top 40 singles). | |||
29 Mar 1949 | birth Michael Brecker, Brecker Brothers. Notable jazz and rock collaborations included work with Steely Dan, James Taylor, Paul Simon, Lou Reed, Donald Fagen, Dire Straits, Joni Mitchell, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, John Lennon, Aerosmith, Dan Fogelberg, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Bruce Springsteen, Roger Daltrey, and Parliament-Funkadelic. He died on January 13, 2007. | |||
29 Mar 1949 | Michael Brecker jazz musician (The Brecker Brothers) | |||
29 Mar 1949 | Uton Dowe cricketer (West Indies pace bowler 1972-73 "Dowe shall not bowl") | |||
29 Mar 1949 | Turkey recognizes Israel | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
29 Mar 1974 | Seton I Miller: Writer, dies at 71 | |||
29 Mar 1974 | Local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, discover the Terracotta Army that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the third century BCE. | |||
29 Mar 1974 | NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury. | |||
29 Mar 1974 | Sarah Walker, English television host | |||
29 Mar 1974 | Miguel Gómez, Colombian-American photographer and educator | |||
29 Mar 1974 | Marc Gené, Spanish race car driver | |||
29 Mar 1974 | Kristoffer Cusick, American actor | |||
29 Mar 1974 | Kara Brock, American actress | |||
29 Mar 1974 | Seton I Miller writer, dies at 71 | |||
29 Mar 1974 | Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos | |||
29 Mar 1974 |
Mercury In 1974, Mariner 10 took the first close-up pictures of Mercury. It was launched 3 Nov 1973. On its way to Mercury, Mariner 10 made its first flyby of Venus on 5 Feb 1974 and discovered evidence of rotating clouds. The mission required more course corrections than any previous mission and was the first spacecraft to use the gravitational pull of one planet to help it reach another planet. In three flybys past Mercury, it mapped about half of the planet's surface. It found a thin atmosphere and a magnetic field. This craft was also the first to use the solar wind as a means of locomotion; when the probe's thruster fuel ran low, scientists used the solar panels as sails to make course corrections. It ended a series of Mariner missions. |
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25 years anniversary | ||||
29 Mar 1999 | A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 103. | |||
29 Mar 1999 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble. | |||
29 Mar 1999 | The David Bowie Internet Radio Network broadcast its first show for Rolling Stone Radio. The show was Bowie's favourite songs with Bowie introducing each track. | |||
29 Mar 1999 | 61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at ThunderDome St Petersburg, UCONN beats Duke 77-74 | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
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 2004 | Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members. | |||
29 Mar 2004 | A court in Lithuania sentenced French rock star Bertrand Cantat, lead singer with Noir Desir to eight years in prison for killing his actress girlfriend during a fight. Cantat was convicted of fatally beating Marie Trintignant in a Vilnius hotel room in 2003. Cantat had admitted killing Ms Trintignant but said it was an accident. | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
29 Mar 2014 | The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed. |