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.
- 1500 –Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna.
- 1549 –The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1871 –The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
- 1879 –Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
- 1911 –The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
- 1941 –The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
- 1946 –Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico’s leading universities, is founded.
- 1957 –The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
- 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.
- 1993 –Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
- 2004 –Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
- 2008 –Thirty-five countries and over 370 cities join Earth Hour for the first time.
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