SomeFacts | March 29

On this day - March 29

1430 — The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from ...

1461 — Battle of Towton: Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to ...

1549 — The city of Salvador, Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is ...

1632 — Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French ...

1792 — King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at ...

1806 — Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better ...

1809 — At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge ...

1809 — King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup ...

1847 — Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General ...

1849 — The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.

1857 — Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native ...

1867 — Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America ...

1871 — Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.

1879 — Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat ...

1882 — The Knights of Columbus is established.

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

1936 — The 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks ...

1941 — World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy ...

1941 — The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into ...

1942 — The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major ...

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

1951 — Hypnosis murders in Copenhagen.

1951 — Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to ...

1957 — The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, ...

1961 — The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution ...

1962 — Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in ...

1968 — The funeral of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, started ...

1971 — My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of ...

1973 — Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in ...

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

1974 — Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.

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

1979 — Quebecair Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Québec City ...

1982 — The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen ...

1984 — The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen ...

1990 — The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on ...

1999 — A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli ...

1999 — The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark ...

2001 — A Gulfstream III crashes on approach to Aspen/Pitkin County ...

2002 — In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel ...

2004 — The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat certifies ...

2004 — Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and ...

2010 — Two suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of ...

2013 — At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building ...

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

2015 — Air Canada Flight 624 skids off the runway at Halifax ...

2016 — A United States Air Force F-16 crashes during takeoff from ...

2017 — Prime Minister Theresa May invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on ...

2021 — The ship Ever Given was dislodged from the Suez Canal.