About March 29
March 29, 2024 is the 89th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 277 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 306 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 29
- 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.
- 1849 –The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
- 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.
- 1871 –The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
- 1879 –Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
- 1886 –Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1946 –Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico’s leading universities, is founded.
- 1951 –Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
- 1961 –The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
- 1971 –My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
- 1973 –Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
- 1973 –Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
- 1974 –NASA’s Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.
- 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 –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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