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Events on the 29th of March in history

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29 Mar 0502 King Gundobad issues a new legal code (Lex Burgundionum) at Lyon that makes Gallo-Romans and Burgundians subject to the same laws.
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29 Mar 0502 Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power
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29 Mar 1430 The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures the Byzantine city of Thessalonica.
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29 Mar 1461 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton – Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
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29 Mar 1461 Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)
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29 Mar 1500 Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna.
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29 Mar 1549 The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
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29 Mar 1632 Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
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29 Mar 1638 Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.
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29 Mar 1638 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
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29 Mar 1673 English King Charles II accepts Test Act: Roman Catholic excluded of public functions
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29 Mar 1683 Yaoya Oshichi, 15-year-old Japanese girl, burnt at the stake for an act of arson committed due to unrequited love.
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29 Mar 1792 King 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.
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29 Mar 1795 Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
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29 Mar 1798 Republic of Switzerland forms
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29 Mar 1804 Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti
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29 Mar 1806 Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
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29 Mar 1809 King 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.
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29 Mar 1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend AL: Andrew Jackson beats Creek-Indians
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29 Mar 1827 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
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29 Mar 1831 Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.
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29 Mar 1847 Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
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29 Mar 1847 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico
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29 Mar 1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
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29 Mar 1849 The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
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29 Mar 1849 Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India
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29 Mar 1850 Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die
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29 Mar 1852 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day
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29 Mar 1857 Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry mutinies against the East India Company's rule in India and inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
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29 Mar 1860 Dion Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn" premieres in New York NY
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29 Mar 1864 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia, Arkansas
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29 Mar 1864 Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece
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29 Mar 1865 American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
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29 Mar 1865 Appomattox campaign, Virginia, 7582 killed
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29 Mar 1865 Battle of Quaker Road, Virginia
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29 Mar 1867 Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
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29 Mar 1867 British North America Act (Canadian constitution) is passed
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29 Mar 1867 Congress approves Lincoln Memorial
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29 Mar 1871 The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
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29 Mar 1871 Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria in London
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29 Mar 1879 Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
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29 Mar 1879 Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin" premieres in Moscow
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29 Mar 1882 The Knights of Columbus are established.
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29 Mar 1882 Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men
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29 Mar 1886 Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
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29 Mar 1886 Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Cola (with cocaine)
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29 Mar 1897 Japan adopts Gold Standard
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29 Mar 1906 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in 2 games
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29 Mar 1911 The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
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29 Mar 1912 Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
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29 Mar 1912 Captain Robert Scott, blizzard-bound in a tent 18 km from the South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
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29 Mar 1919 Stanley Cup: Mont (NHL) and Seat (PCHA) win 2 games each with 1 tie, 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic
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29 Mar 1919 Stanley Cup: Montr
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29 Mar 1924 Bayern & Vatican reach accord
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29 Mar 1927 Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona
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29 Mar 1927 Henry O D Segrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona; 1st auto to exceed 200 mph (322 kph)
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29 Mar 1928 Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (New York NY)
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29 Mar 1929 Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep New York Rangers in 2 games
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29 Mar 1930 Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
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29 Mar 1932 Jack Benny debuts on radio
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29 Mar 1934 Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt
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29 Mar 1935 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage
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29 Mar 1936 10,000 watch the 200" mirror blank passing through Indianapolis
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29 Mar 1936 In 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.
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29 Mar 1936 Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
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29 Mar 1940 Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title
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29 Mar 1941 World 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.
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29 Mar 1941 The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
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29 Mar 1941 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem"
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29 Mar 1941 3rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Wisconsin beats Washington State 39-34
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29 Mar 1941 WPAT radio in New Jersey begins broadcasting (country music format)
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29 Mar 1942 The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
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29 Mar 1942 British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
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29 Mar 1942 British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire; 400 Germans die
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29 Mar 1942 German submarine U-585 sinks
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29 Mar 1943 Meat, butter and cheese rationed in US during WWII
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29 Mar 1943 Meat, butter & cheese rationed in US during WWII (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's)
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29 Mar 1945 World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.
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29 Mar 1945 World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
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29 Mar 1946 Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded.
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29 Mar 1946 1st Test Cricket between Australia & New Zealand
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29 Mar 1946 Test Cricket debuts of Lindwall, Miller & Tallon
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29 Mar 1947 Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
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29 Mar 1947 "Beggar's Holiday" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 111 performances
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29 Mar 1948 Drachtster Boys soccer team forms in Drachten
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29 Mar 1948 Yankees & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17, spring training game
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29 Mar 1949 Turkey recognizes Israel
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29 Mar 1951 "King & I" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 1246 performances
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29 Mar 1951 23rd Academy Awards - "All About Eve, " Judy Holliday and J Ferrer win
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29 Mar 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of spying
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29 Mar 1951 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
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29 Mar 1951 23rd Academy Awards: "All About Eve", Jose Ferrer & Judy Holliday win
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29 Mar 1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
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29 Mar 1957 The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
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29 Mar 1958 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Carol Heiss
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29 Mar 1958 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by David Jenkins
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29 Mar 1959 "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon premieres
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29 Mar 1959 Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore
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29 Mar 1960 Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres
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29 Mar 1961 The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
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29 Mar 1961 23rd Amendment is ratified, allows Washington DC residents to vote for President
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29 Mar 1961 After a 4
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29 Mar 1961 KCPT TV channel 19 in Kansas City MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
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29 Mar 1962 Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11½ day constitutional crisis.
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29 Mar 1962 Argentine President Frondizi flees from the army
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29 Mar 1962 Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight Show"
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29 Mar 1963 Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone"
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29 Mar 1964 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)
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29 Mar 1966 "It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman" opens at Alvin NYC for 129 performances
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29 Mar 1966 Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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29 Mar 1967 WCMU TV channel 14 in Mount Pleasant MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
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29 Mar 1968 Students seize building at Bowie State College
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29 Mar 1969 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines
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29 Mar 1970 "Look to the Lilies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 performances
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29 Mar 1970 Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II
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29 Mar 1971 Royal Albert Hall opens
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29 Mar 1971 A Los Angeles jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
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29 Mar 1971 My Lai Massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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29 Mar 1971 1st Lieutenant William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
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29 Mar 1971 Chile President Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines
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29 Mar 1971 Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor
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29 Mar 1971 Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
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29 Mar 1971 WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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29 Mar 1973 Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
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29 Mar 1973 Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
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29 Mar 1973 Dave Cowens wins NBA MVP
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29 Mar 1973 Last US troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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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.
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29 Mar 1974 NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
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29 Mar 1974 Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
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29 Mar 1975 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Karsten-Ping Golf Open
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29 Mar 1975 Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
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29 Mar 1976 38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan 86-68
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29 Mar 1976 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
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29 Mar 1979 Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball vs Pakistan at WACA
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29 Mar 1979 Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine" premieres in London
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29 Mar 1979 Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
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29 Mar 1979 Last day of Test cricket for Mushtaq Mohammad
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29 Mar 1981 "Woman of the Year" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 770 performances
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29 Mar 1981 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
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29 Mar 1981 Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110 meter
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29 Mar 1982 54th Academy Awards - "Chariots of Fire, " Henry Fonda and K Hepburn win
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29 Mar 1982 The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
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29 Mar 1982 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Mommie Dearest wins
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29 Mar 1982 44th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Georgetown 63-62
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29 Mar 1982 54th Academy Awards: "Chariots of Fire", Henry Fonda & Katharine Hepburn win
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29 Mar 1982 Delhi 707 beat Karnataka 705 on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
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29 Mar 1984 NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis
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29 Mar 1984 The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to Indianapolis.
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29 Mar 1984 NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis under cover of night
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29 Mar 1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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29 Mar 1985 Christos Sartzetakis elected President of Greece
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29 Mar 1985 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist
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29 Mar 1986 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
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29 Mar 1987 7th Golden Raspberry Awards: Howard the Duck wins
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29 Mar 1987 6th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Louisiana Tech 67-44
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29 Mar 1987 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
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29 Mar 1987 Wrestlemania III-93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant
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29 Mar 1987 Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party
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29 Mar 1988 "Oba Oba" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 46 performances
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29 Mar 1988 US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras
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29 Mar 1989 61st Academy Awards - "Rainman, " Dustin Hoffman and Jodie Foster win
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29 Mar 1989 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL
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29 Mar 1989 1st US private commercial rocket takes suborbital test flight (New Mexico)
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29 Mar 1989 9th Golden Raspberry Awards: Cocktail wins
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29 Mar 1989 I M Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris France
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29 Mar 1989 Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in New York for racketeering
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29 Mar 1990 The 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.
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29 Mar 1990 Houston's Akeen Olajuwan scores the 3rd NBA quadruple double 18 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists & 11 blocks vs Milwaukee
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29 Mar 1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 2nd victim, Germaine Montenesdro
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29 Mar 1992 "Conversations with My Father" opens at Royale NYC for 462 performances
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29 Mar 1992 Ice Pairs Championship at Oakland won by Mishuktienok and Dmitriev (CIS)
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29 Mar 1992 12th Golden Raspberry Awards: Hudson Hawk wins
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29 Mar 1992 21st Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Dottie Mochrie
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29 Mar 1992 Herb Gardner's "Conversations With My Father" premieres in New York NY
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29 Mar 1992 NCAA Basketball Women's Championship at Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62
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29 Mar 1992 World Ice Dance Championship in Oakland won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (CIS)
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29 Mar 1992 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Mishuktienok & Dmitriev (CIS)
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29 Mar 1992 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)
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29 Mar 1992 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Viktor Petrenko (CIS)
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29 Mar 1993 65th Academy Awards - "Unforgiven, " Al Pacino and Emma Thompson win
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29 Mar 1993 Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
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29 Mar 1993 Queensland all out for 75 vs New South Wales in Sheffield Shield Final
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29 Mar 1994 Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys
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29 Mar 1994 Last day of Test cricket for Allan Border
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29 Mar 1994 Serbs & Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia
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29 Mar 1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM
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29 Mar 1996 10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men win
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29 Mar 1996 Cleveland Browns choose new name, Baltimore Ravens
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29 Mar 1996 New York Yankees beats New York Mets 7-3 in an exhibition game
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29 Mar 1997 1st game at Turner Field Atlanta, Braves beats Yankees 2-0 (exhibition)
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29 Mar 1997 Actor Harry Hamlin weds actress Lisa Rinna
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29 Mar 1997 PBA National Championship Won by Rick Steelsmith
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29 Mar 1998 17th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Kemper Arena Kansas City,Tennessee beats Louisiana Tech 93-75
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29 Mar 1998 27th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship
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29 Mar 1999 A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
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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.
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29 Mar 1999 61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at ThunderDome St Petersburg, UCONN beats Duke 77-74
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29 Mar 2002 In 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.
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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.
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29 Mar 2004 Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
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29 Mar 2010 Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.
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29 Mar 2013 A landslide kills 66 people in China's Tibet Autonomous Region near Lhasa.
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29 Mar 2013 At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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29 Mar 2014 The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed.
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