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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 16, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,711,670,400 seconds 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 ‘octacontaenneagon’ 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 306 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 4,116 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 29 Historical Events
- 1461 –Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton – Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
- 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.
- 1871 –The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
- 1911 –The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
- 1974 –NASA’s Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.
- 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.
- 2004 –Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
Who were born on March 29?
- 1911 –Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988)
- 1913 –R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000)
- 1931 –Aleksei Gubarev, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1949 –Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2007)
- 1954 –Dianne Kay, American actress
- 1968 –Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
- 1968 –Sue Foley, Canadian singer and guitarist
- 1978 –Pierre Faber, French-born German rugby player
- 1984 –Juan Mónaco, Argentine tennis player
- 1992 –Chris Massoglia, American actor and dancer
Who died on March 29?
- 1368 –Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)
- 1800 –Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b. 1714)
- 1912 –Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist – member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (b. 1872)
- 1959 –Barthélemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
- 1971 –Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1886)
- 1986 –Harry Ritz, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)
- 1996 –Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944)
- 1999 –Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
- 2002 –Rico Yan, Philippine actor (b. 1975)
- 2005 –Miltos Sahtouris, Greek poet (b. 1919)
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