Today in History
29th March
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| 1461 The bloodiest battle of the English Wars of the Roses took place at Towton, near York. Some 36,000 Yorkists defeated 40,000 Lancastrians and secured the English throne for Yorkist Edward IV. |
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| 1561 Santorio Sanctorius, Trieste Italy, physician/burned at stake/heretic was born | ||
| 1673 English King Charles II accept Test Act: RC excluded of public functions | ||
| 1788 Charles Wesley, writer of more than 5,500 hymns and, with his brother John, the founder of Methodism, died. | ||
| 1790 John Tyler, the first U.S. vice president to succeed to the presidency, born. He became 10th president on the death of incumbent William Henry Harrison. | ||
| 1792 Gustav III of Sweden died a few days after being shot by conspirators at the Stockholm opera house. Giuseppe Verdi based his opera "Un Ballo in Maschera" on the incident. | ||
| 1795 Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna | ||
| 1798 The Helvetic Republic, a government set up by the French directory in Switzerland from the ten Cantons, was proclaimed. | ||
| 1804 Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti | ||
| 1809 In Sweden, Gustavus IV was forced to abdicate after a number of military defeats against Denmark. He was succeeded by Charles XIII. | ||
| 1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend Ala: Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians | ||
| 1817 Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet was born | ||
| 1822 Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter was born | ||
| 1827 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna | ||
| 1848 Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War was born | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1864 Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece | ||
| 1864 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas | ||
| 1867 The British North America Act established the Dominion of Canada comprising Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. |
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| 1871 In London, Queen Victoria opened the Royal Albert Hall in memory of her late consort Prince Albert | ||
| 1879 "Evgeny Onegin," or "Eugene Onegin," best known opera by Russian composer Tchaikovsky, received its first performance at the Maliy Theater in Moscow. | ||
| 1882 Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men | ||
| 1886 Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Coke | ||
| 1891 Georges Seurat, French impressionist painter, died. He was primarily responsible for the development of Pointillism, where the whole picture is made up of tiny rectangles of pure color. | ||
| 1897 Japan adopts Gold Standard | ||
| 1899 Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria, chief of the Soviet secret police, born. His attempt to seize power after Stalin's death in 1953 was foiled and he was executed just months later. | ||
| 1901 The first elections in Australia started when Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia voted for members of the first Australian parliament. | ||
| 1906 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in 2 games | ||
| 1912 English Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott died as his expedition attempted to return after reaching the South Pole. | ||
| 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic | ||
| 1924 Bayern & Vatican reach accord | ||
| 1934 Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt | ||
| 1936 Nazi propaganda claimed that 99 percent of the German population voted for official Nazi candidates in elections. | ||
| 1941 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem" | ||
| 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 & cheese rationed in US during WW II | ||
| 1946 1st Test Cricket between Australia & NZ | ||
| 1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of spying | ||
| 1959 Barthelemy Boganda, first president of the Central African Republic, was killed in a plane crash. | ||
| 1961 The U.S. constitution was amended to give residents of the District of Columbia the right to vote in presidential elections. | ||
| 1962 Argentine Pres Frondizi flees from the army | ||
| 1963 Britain granted the right to any territory to secede from the Central African Federation. | ||
| 1969 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines | ||
| 1971 Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines | ||
| 1971 Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor | ||
| 1971 Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced | ||
| 1971 Royal Albert Hall opens | ||
| 1973 US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution | ||
| 1974 The first close-up pictures of the planet Mercury were taken by the U.S. spacecraft Mariner 10. | ||
| 1974 Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos | ||
| 1976 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students | 1939, the Spanish Civil War ends. | |
| 1979 Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy | ||
| 1980 Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, Anglo-Italian conductor and arranger, died. Created the "Mantovani sound" that made him a highly successful recording artist and concert attraction. | ||
| 1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR | ||
| 1982 Carl Orff, German composer of the famed "Carmina Burana," died. | ||
| 1982 Delhi 707 beat Karnataka 705 on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy | ||
| 1985 Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece | ||
| 1987 A referendum in Haiti showed overwhelming support for a new constitution. | ||
| 1987 Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party | ||
| 1988 US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras | ||
| 1989 I M Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris | ||
| 1992 Paul Henreid, suave Austrian-born actor of stage and screen who played alongside Bogart and Bergman in "Casablanca," died. | ||
| 1994 Serbs & Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia | ||
| 1994 Guatemala's government and leftist rebels signed a breakthrough human rights accord that boosted hopes of ending 33 years of civil war. | ||
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