Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 29
This is a list of selected March 29 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Historical portrait of Husein Gradaščević
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The grand opening of the Royal Albert Hall -
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Mariner 10
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1806 – U.S. President Thomas Jefferson authorized the construction of the Cumberland Road, one of the first major improved highways in the United States that was built by the federal government. | refimprove, expansion |
| 1809 – At the Diet of Porvoo, the Four Estates of Finland pledged allegiance to Tsar Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden. | refimprove |
| 1831 – Bosniak general Husein Gradaščević began an uprising against Sultan Mahmud II and the Ottoman Empire. | Gradaščević and Bosnian uprising both refimprove |
| 1849 – The United Kingdom annexed the Punjab region. | date not in article, image gallery |
| 1941 – Second World War: British Royal Navy and Australian Navy ships intercepted and sank or severely damaged the ships of the Italian Regia Marina near Crete. | refimprove |
| 1945 – World War II: The German 4th Army was almost completely destroyed by the Soviet Red Army at the Heiligenbeil Pocket in East Prussia. | unreferenced section |
| 1946 – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, was founded. | date not in article |
| 1973 – Vietnam War: The United States ended Operation Barrel Roll, a covert bombing campaign in Laos to help stem an increasing tide of People's Army of Vietnam and Pathet Lao offensives. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 845 – Viking raiders possibly led by the legendary Ragnar Lodbrok captured Paris and held the city for a huge ransom.
- 1430 – Ottoman–Venetian Wars: After an eight-year siege, the Ottoman Empire captured the city of Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.
- 1800 – William Matthews was ordained as the first British America-born Catholic priest.
- 1807 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered 4 Vesta, the brightest asteroid and the second-most massive body in the asteroid belt.
- 1865 – American Civil War: The Appomattox Campaign opened with the Battle of Lewis's Farm, in which the Confederate States Army was forced into a series of retreats that would culminate in their surrender.
- 1871 – The Royal Albert Hall in Albertopolis, London, was officially opened by Queen Victoria.
- 1882 – The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, was founded by Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
- 1911 – The M1911 single-action, semi-automatic pistol developed by American firearms designer John Browning became the standard-issue side arm in the United States Army.
- 1942 – Second World War: The British Royal Air Force completed a bombing raid on Lübeck, the first major success for RAF Bomber Command against a German city.
- 1974 – A group of farmers in Shaanxi province, China, discovered a vast collection of terracotta statues (pictured) depicting the armies of the first Emperor of China Qin Shi Huang.
- 1974 – NASA's Mariner 10, launched in November 1973, became the first space probe to fly by the planet Mercury.
- 1975 – Jeff Beck released Blow by Blow, his most successful album in the U.S., reaching the top five and selling over one million copies.
- 1981 – Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen jointly won the first running of the London Marathon.
- 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".
- 2010 – Islamist Chechen separatists set off two bombs on the Moscow Metro, killing 40 and injuring 102 others.
- 2014 – Per the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, the first same-sex marriages in England and Wales took place.
- Born/died this day: John Tyler (b. 1790) · Cornelio Saavedra (d. 1829) · Emilia Baeyertz (b. 1842) · Charles-Valentin Alkan (d. 1888) · Sam Loxton (b. 1921) · Helene Deutsch (d. 1982)
Notes
March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic; Martyrs' Day in Madagascar (1947)
- 1461 – During the Wars of the Roses, Yorkist troops defeated Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Towton (memorial pictured) in Yorkshire, England, the largest and bloodiest battle fought in England.
- 1638 – Swedish settlers founded New Sweden near Delaware Bay, the first Swedish colony in America.
- 1941 – The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement to define technical standards for AM band radio stations came into effect.
- 1969 – The New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, was formed.
- 1999 – The strongest earthquake to hit the foothills of the Himalayas in more than 90 years killed at least 100 people.
Thomas Coram (d. 1751) · Georges Seurat (d. 1891) · Ruth A. M. Schmidt (d. 2014)