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
- 1632 –Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1936 –In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany’s illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
- 1951 –Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2010 –Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.
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