What are the important events that happened on March 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 29: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 29 is the 88^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 16, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 484,224 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘octacontaoctagon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,481 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 29 Historical Events

• 1638 –
  Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.
• 1806 –
  Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
• 1879 –
  Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
• 1886 –
  Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1999 –
  A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
• 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.

Who were born on March 29?

• 1816 –
  Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama (d. 1837)
• 1908 –
  Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)
• 1931 –
  Sopubek Begaliev, Soviet-era economist and politician (d. 2002)
• 1954 –
  Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)
• 1959 –
  Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
• 1965 –
  Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete
• 1976 –
  Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
• 1980 –
  Amy Mathews, Australian actress
• 1980 –
  Bruno Silva, Uruguayan footballer
• 1994 –
  Sulli Choi, South korean singer and dancer

Who died on March 29?

• 1751 –
  Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist
• 1888 –
  Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (b. 1813)
• 1937 –
  Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882)
• 1948 –
  Harry Price, British psychic researcher and writer (b. 1881)
• 1957 –
  Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888)
• 1972 –
  Lord J. Arthur Rank, British movie theater owner (b. 1888)
• 1980 –
  Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905)
• 1995 –
  Jimmy McShane, Irish frontman of the group Baltimora (b. 1957)
• 2009 –
  Maurice Jarre, French composer (b. 1924)
• 2011 –
  Ângelo de Sousa, Portuguese painter and sculptor (b. 1938)