Today In History - March 29

502 Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power
1461 Battle near Towton Field, (War of the Roses), 33,000 people die
1638 The first permanent white settlement in Delaware
1673 English King Charles II accepts Test Act
1795 Beethoven, at age 24, debuts as a pianist in Vienna
1798 The Republic of Switzerland forms
1804 Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti
1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend Ala: Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians
1827 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1849 Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India
1850 Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die
1852 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day
1860 Dion Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn" premieres in New York City
1864 Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece
1864 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas
1865 Battle of Quaker Road, VA
1867 The British North America Act passes
1867 Congress approves the Lincoln Memorial
1871 Albert Hall opens by Queen Victoria in London
1879 Tchaikovsky's opera "Jevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow
1882 Knights of Columbus is chartered for Catholic men
1886 Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coke
1897 Japan adopts Gold Standard
1906 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in 2 games
1912 Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1919 Stanley Cup: Mont (NHL) and Seat (PCHA) win 2 games each with 1 tie, 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic
1924 Bayern and Vatican reach accord
1929 Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep New York Rangers in 2 games
1932 Jack Benny debuts on radio
1934 Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt
1935 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage
1936 Nazi propaganda claims that 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
1940 Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title
1941 3rd NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Wisconsin beats Washington State 39-34
1941 The first performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem"
1941 WPAT radio in New Jersey begins broadcasting (country music format)
1942 British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
1942 British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire: 400 Germans die
1942 German submarine U-585 sinks
1943 Meat, butter and cheese rationed in U.S. during WW II
1949 Turkey recognizes Israel
1951 "King and I" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 1246 performances
1951 The 23rd Academy Awards - "All About Eve," Judy Holliday and J Ferrer win
1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of spying
1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
1958 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1958 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
1959 "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon premieres
1959 Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore
1960 Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres
1961 The 23rd Amendment ratified, allows Washington D.C. residents to vote for President
1961 After a 4 year trial, Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge
1961 KCPT TV channel 19 in Kansas City, Missouri (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 Argentine President Frondizi flees from the army
1962 Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight Show"
1963 Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone"
1966 Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title
1967 WCMU TV channel 14 in Mt. Pleasant, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Students seize a building at Bowie State College
1971 Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's first sexology professor
1971 Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
1971 1st Lt William L. Calley, Jr. is found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
1971 Royal Albert Hall opens
1971 WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 Dave Cowens, wins NBA MVP
1973 U.S. troops leave Vietnam
1974 Mariner 10's, first fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
1975 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Karsten-Ping Golf Open
1976 The 38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan 86-68
1976 Eight Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
1981 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1981 Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110m
1981 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1982 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Mommie Dearest wins
1982 44th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Georgetown 63-62
1982 54th Academy Awards - "Chariots of Fire," Henry Fonda and K Hepburn win
1984 NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis
1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1985 Christos Sartzetakis is elected president of Greece
1985 Wayne Gretzky breaks his own NHL season record with 126th assist
1986 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
1987 6th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Tennessee routs Louisiana 67-44
1987 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1987 Wrestlemania III - 93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant
1987 Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party
1988 "Oba Oba" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 46 performances
1988 U.S. Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras
1989 61st Academy Awards - "Rainman," Dustin Hoffman and Jodie Foster win
1989 9th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Cocktail" wins
1989 The first U.S. private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight (NM)
1989 I. M. Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris
1989 Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in New York for racketeering
1992 12th Golden Raspberry Awards: Hudson Hawk wins
1992 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oak won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)
1992 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Viktor Petrenko (CIS)
1992 NCAA Basketball Women's Championship at Kemper Arena, KC
1993 65th Academy Awards - "Unforgiven," Al Pacino and Emma Thompson win
1994 Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia
1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago, Illinois on WCKG 105.9 FM
1996 10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men
1996 Cleveland Browns choose new name, Baltimore Ravens
1997 Actor Harry Hamlin weds actress Lisa Rinna
1998 17th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Kemper Arena KC
1998 27th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship
1999 61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Thunder Dome, St. Petersburg

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