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.
- 1632 –Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
- 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.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
- 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.
- 1867 –Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
- 1871 –The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
- 1879 –Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
- 1882 –The Knights of Columbus are established.
- 1911 –The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
- 1930 –Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
- 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.
- 1957 –The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
- 1961 –The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
- 1973 –Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
- 2002 –In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
- 2008 –Thirty-five countries and over 370 cities join Earth Hour for the first time.
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