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This day in history: 29 March

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Key facts

339 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 29 March.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2021: The ship Ever Given is dislodged from the Suez Canal.

Holidays and observances

Berthold of Calabria

Boganda Day (Central African Republic)

Commemoration of the 1947 Rebellion (Madagascar)

Day of the Young Combatant (Chile)

Jonas and Barachisius

Ludolph of Ratzeburg

March 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

National Vietnam War Veterans Day (United States)

Youth Day (Taiwan)

Events

2021The ship Ever Given is dislodged from the Suez Canal.

2017Prime Minister Theresa May invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.

2015Air Canada Flight 624 skids off the runway at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, after arriving from Toronto shortly past midnight. All 133 passengers and five crews on board survive, with 23 treated for minor injuries.

2014The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed.

2013At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

2010Two suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.

2004Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.

2004The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat certifies Taipei 101 as the world's tallest building, based on the building having been topped out on 1 July 2003, even though the building was not completed until 31 December 2004.

2002In 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.

2001A Gulfstream III crashes on approach to Aspen/Pitkin County Airport in Aspen, Colorado. All 18 people on board are killed.

1999A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.

1999The 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.

1990The 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.

1984The Baltimore Colts load their possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer their operations to Indianapolis.

1982The 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.

1979Quebecair Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport in Quebec City, killing 17.

1974NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.

1974The Terracotta Army is discovered in Shaanxi province, China.

1973Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.

1973Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.

1971My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.

1968The funeral of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, begins in Moscow, with thousands of people in attendance.

1962Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an day constitutional crisis.

1961The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.

1957The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.

1951Hypnosis murders in Copenhagen.

1951Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.

1947The Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule begins in Madagascar.

1942The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.

1941The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.

1941World 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.

1936The 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for the recent remilitarization of the Rhineland.

1927Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.

1882The Knights of Columbus is established.

1879Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.

1871Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.

1867Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.

1857Sepoy 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.

1849The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.

1847Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.

Born on this day

2004Kim Ju-chan, South Korean footballer

1996Wade Baldwin IV, American basketball player

1994Jung Jae-won, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, and actor

1994Matt Olson, American baseball player

1994Tom Wilson, Canadian ice hockey player

1993Thorgan Hazard, Belgian footballer

1991Irene, South Korean idol, actress and television host

1991N'Golo Kanté, French footballer

1990Lyle Taylor, English footballer

1989James Tomkins, English footballer

1986Lucas Elliot Eberl, American actor and director

1986Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer

1985Fernando Amorebieta, Venezuelan footballer

1983Chokwe Antar Lumumba, American attorney, activist and politician

1983Efstathios Aloneftis, Greek-Cypriot footballer

1981Jasmine Crockett, American attorney and politician

1981Jlloyd Samuel, Trinidadian footballer

1981Megan Hilty, American actress and singer

1981PJ Morton, American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer

1980Bill Demong, American skier

1980Chris D'Elia, American stand-up comedian, actor and writer

1980Hamzah bin Hussein, Jordanian prince

1980Molly Brodak, American poet and writer

1979Luis Ortiz, Cuban boxer

1978Ian Holding, Zimbabwean writer

1977Nina Riggs, American writer and poet

1976Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player

1974Alex Cuba, Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter

1973Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer and coach

1972Ernest Cline, American novelist, poet and screenwriter

1972Priti Patel, British Indian politician, Secretary of State for the Home Department

1972Stina Leicht, American author

1971Hidetoshi Nishijima, Japanese actor

1971Lara Logan, South African television and radio journalist and war correspondent

1971Robert Gibbs, American political adviser, 28th White House Press Secretary

1970J. A. Konrath, American author

1969Jimmy Spencer, American football player and coach

1969Ted Lieu, American politician and AFRC colonel

1968Chris Calloway, American football player

1968Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress

Died on this day

2025Richard Chamberlain, American actor

2024Gerry Conway, English folk and rock drummer/percussionist

2024Louis Gossett Jr., American actor

2023John Kerin, Australian politician

2023Vivan Sundaram, Indian contemporary artist

2022Charles Jeffrey, British botanist

2022Jennifer Wilson, English actress

2021Bashkim Fino, Albanian politician, 29th Prime Minister of Albania

2021Sarah Onyango Obama, Kenyan educator and philanthropist

2020Alan Merrill, American musician

2020Joe Diffie, American country music singer

2020Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor

2019Agnès Varda, French film director

2018Anita Shreve, American author

2017Alexei Abrikosov, Russian physicist, 2003 Nobel laureate in Physics

2016Patty Duke, American actress

2015William Delafield Cook, Australian-English painter

2014Marc Platt, American actor and dancer

2013Art Phillips, Canadian businessman and politician, 32nd Mayor of Vancouver

2013Brian Huggins, English-Canadian journalist and actor

2013Ralph Klein, Canadian journalist and politician, 12th Premier of Alberta

2013Reginald Gray, Irish-French painter

2012Bill Jenkins, American race car driver and engineer

2012Pap Cheyassin Secka, Gambian lawyer and politician, 8th Attorney General of the Gambia

2011Ângelo de Sousa, Portuguese painter and sculptor

2011Iakovos Kambanellis, Greek author, poet, playwright, and screenwriter

2009Andy Hallett, American actor and singer

2009Vladimir Fedotov, Russian footballer and manager

2007Larry L'Estrange, English rugby player and soldier

2006Salvador Elizondo, Mexican author and poet

Quote of the day

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.”

Seneca

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