Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 29
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March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic
- 1807 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovered 4 Vesta (elevation diagram from the Hubble telescope pictured), the brightest asteroid and the second-most massive body in the asteroid belt.
- 1882 – The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, was founded by Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, US.
- 1942 – World War II: The British Royal Air Force completed a bombing raid of Lübeck, the first major success for RAF Bomber Command against a German city.
- 1946 – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, was founded.
- 1982 – Queen Elizabeth II gave Royal Assent to the Canada Act 1982, which ended all remaining dependence of Canada on the United Kingdom by a process known as "patriation".