About March 29
March 29, 2023 is the 88th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 277 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 318 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 29
- 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.
- 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.
- 1806 –Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
- 1831 –Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.
- 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.
- 1886 –Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1930 –Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
- 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.
- 1951 –Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
- 1957 –The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
- 1974 –NASA’s Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.
- 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 –The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
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