About March 29
March 29, 2025 is the 88th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 277 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 325 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 29
- 1461 –Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton – Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
- 1549 –The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
- 1638 –Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.
- 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.
- 1806 –Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
- 1857 –Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the British rule in India and inspires a long-drawn War of Independence of 1857 also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
- 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.
- 1886 –Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1946 –Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico’s leading universities, is founded.
- 1971 –A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
- 1973 –Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
- 1982 –The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
- 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.
- 1999 –The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the internet boom.
- 2004 –Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
- 2004 –The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
- 2010 –Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.
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