Today
in History ~ March 29
Events
1461 - Battle near Towton Field,
33,000 die (War of the Roses)
1638 - 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
1673 - English king Charles II accept Test Act: RC excluded from public functions
1795 - Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
1798 - Republic of Switzerland forms
1804 - Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti
1806 - Congress authorizes survey of Cumberland Road [H]
1812 - The first wedding was performed in the White House. Mrs. Lucy Payne
Washington, sister-in-law of President James Madison, married Supreme Court
Justice Thomas Dodd.
1814 - Battle at Horseshoe Bend Ala: Andrew Jackson beats Creek Indians
1827 - 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethoven's burial in Vienna
1847 - 12,000 victorious US troops led by Gen. Winfield Scott occupied the city
of Vera Cruz after Mexican defenders capitulated.
1848 - Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1850 - Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die
1852 - Ohio makes it illegal for women & children under 18 to work more than
10 hours a day
1864 - Union General Steele's troops reach Arkadelphia, Arkansas
1865 - -Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, VA , 7582 killed
1865 - Battle of Quaker Road, VA
1867 - Congress approves Lincoln Memorial
1867 - The British Parliament passed the North America Act to create the
Dominion of Canada.
1871 - Albert Hall opened by Queen Victoria in London
1879 - Tschaikovsky's opera "Yevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow
1879 - British victory at Kambula, in northwest Zululand, a force of 2,000
British and Colonial troops under the command of Colonel Henry Evelyn Wood
defeats 20,000 Zulus.
1882 - The Knights of Columbus was chartered in Connecticut.
1886 - Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Coke
1912 - Capt Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last
entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1932 - A vaudeville comedian made his radio debut by saying, "Ladies and
gentlemen, this is Jack Benny talking. There will be a slight pause while you
say, `Who cares?'"
1935 - French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage
1936 - Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
1942 - British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
1943 - Meat, butter & cheese rationed in US during WW II
1951 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit
espionage. (They were executed in June 1953.) [H]
1951 - "King & I" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1246
performances
1951 - 23rd Academy Awards - "All About Eve" won the Academy Award for
best picture; its director, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, received his second set of
consecutive Oscars for direction and screenplay (he'd won the previous year for
"A Letter to Three Wives"); Judy Holliday won best actress for
"Born Yesterday" while Jose Ferrer was honored as best actor for
"Cyrano de Bergerac."
1959 - "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe & Jack Lemmon
premieres
1961 - 23rd Amendment ratified, allows Wash DC residents to vote for pres
1961 - After a 4 year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge
1962 - Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight Show"
1968 - Students seize building at Bowie State College
1971 - Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. was convicted of murdering at least 22
Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre. Calley ended up spending three
years under house arrest.
1971 - A jury in Los Angeles recommended the death penalty for Charles Manson
and three female followers for the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders. The death
sentence was later declared to be unconstitutional, and the four were
re-sentenced to life in prison.
1971 - Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines
1971 - Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
1973 - 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution, the last U.S. troops left South Vietnam
and the last American prisoners of war acknowledged by the North Vietnamese
government were freed.
1974 - Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury. [H]
1976 - 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
1979 - The House Select Committee on Assassinations released its final report on
the assassinations of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F.
Kennedy.
1981 - "Woman of the Year" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 770
performances
1982 - 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Mommie Dearest wins
1982 - 54th Academy Awards - "Chariots of Fire," Henry Fonda & K
Hepburn win
1984 - NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis
1988 - US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras
1989 - 61st Academy Awards - "Rainman," Dustin Hoffman & Jodie
Foster win
1989 - 9th Golden Raspberry Awards: Cocktail wins
1989 - I M Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris
1989 - Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in NY for racketeering
1991 - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf publicly apologized to President for
questioning his judgment about calling a cease-fire in the Gulf War.
1992 - "Conversations with My Father" opens at Royale NYC for 462
performances
1992 - Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton acknowledged
experimenting with marijuana "a time or two" while attending Oxford
University, adding, "I didn't inhale and I didn't try it again."
1992 - 12th Golden Raspberry Awards: Hudson Hawk wins
1993 - 65th Academy Awards - "Unforgiven," Clint Eastwood's gritty
western, won the best picture and best director Oscars, but no single film
scored a sweep of the 65th annual Academy Awards.
1994 - Jimmy Johnson, coach of the Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys, resigned,
in part because of a disagreement over who deserved credit for the Cowboys'
success: Johnson or team owner Jerry Jones.
1994 - Bosnian Serbs stepped up their bombardment of Gorazde, 35 miles southeast
of Sarajevo and one of the U.N-designated "safe areas."
1995 - The House rejected legislation that would've limited how long members of
Congress could serve.
1996 - Congress passed, and President Clinton quickly signed, a 12th stopgap
spending bill to avert a partial federal shutdown.
1996 - The House Ethics Committee said Speaker Newt Gingrich violated House rules
by having close dealings with a wealthy GOP giver who had business interests
affected by congressional legislation. It was the third time in two months the
panel had notified Gingrich that he'd broken the rules.
1997 - Israeli troops killed a Palestinian in a confrontation triggered by
preparations to build another Jewish settlement in Arab East Jerusalem.
1997 - Vice President Gore concluded his tour of Asia, saying that talks in
Beijing had created "new momentum" in relations between the U.S. and
China.
2000 - President Clinton told a news conference he was appalled when he first
learned his campaign had taken illegal foreign donations in 1996 _ contributions
he called both wrong and unneeded.
2000 - A federal judge ruled that President Clinton "committed a criminal
violation of the Privacy Act" by releasing personal letters to undermine
the credibility of Kathleen Willey, one of his accusers.
2001 - James Kopp, the fugitive wanted in the 1998 slaying of Dr. Barnett
Slepian, a Buffalo, N.Y., abortion provider, was captured in France.
2001 - A chartered jet crashed near Aspen, Colo., killing all 18 people
aboard.
Birthdays
Today
1561 - Santorio Sanctorius, Trieste, physician/burned at stake/heretic
1790 - John Tyler (10th U.S. President [1841-1845]; the first president to marry while in office) was
born in Charles City County, Va.
1819 - Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive US oil well
1819 - Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/founder (American Hebrew Congregations)
1848 - Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War
1867 - Cy (Denton True) Young (baseball: Cy Young Award for the best pitcher in both Leagues named for him)
1875 - Lou Hoover (Henry) (wife of 31st U.S. President Herbert Hoover)
1888 - Howard Lindsay (playwright: A Woman's World)
1888 - James E Casey, founder (United Parcel Service)
1892 - Jozsef Mindszenty, [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal
1902 - William Walton, England, composer (Troilus & Cressida, Wise Virgins)
1905 - Annunzio Mantovani, Venice Italy, orch leader (Mantovani)
1906 - E Power Biggs, Westcliff-on-Sea England, organist/composer (CBS)
1914 - Phil Foster (Feldman) (stand-up comedian; actor: Bang the Drum Slowly, Conquest of Space, Hail)
1916 - Eugene J McCarthy, Watkins, Minn, (Sen-D-Minn, pres candidate 1968)
1917 - Man O'War, racehorse (winner of 20 out of 21 races & $249,465)
1918 - Pearl Mae Bailey (jazz singer: Takes Two to Tango, A Little Learnin' is a Dangerous Thing w/Sinatra; actress: St. Louis Woman, Variety Girl, Porgy and Bess, lead in black cast of Hello Dolly; TV series)
1919 - Eileen Heckart (actress: The Bad Seed, Bus Stop, Butterflies are Free, Heartbreak Ridge, Up the Down Staircase)
1936 - Richard Rodney Bennett, Broadstairs, Kent, England, composer
1937 - Billy Carter (brother of 39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter)
1938 - Duane Rupp (hockey)
1941 - Terence Hill, Venice Italy, actor (Super Fuzz, They Call Me Trinity)
1943 - Eric Idle (actor: Monty Python's Flying Circus, Casper, Splitting Heirs, The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen)
1943 - John Major, British PM (C, 1990-97)
1943 - Vangelis, [Papathanasiou], composer/keyboardist (Chariots of Fire)
1945 - Walt "Clyde" Frazier (Basketball Hall of Famer: New York Knicks: NBA's all defensive first team 7 years [1969-1975])
1947 - Bobby Kimball (Toteaux) (singer: group: Toto: Africa, Rosanna)
1948 - Ken Burrow (football)
1949 - Michael Brecker (jazz musician: reeds, group: The Brecker Brothers)
1950 - Bud Cort (actor: Harold and Maude, Brewster McCloud, M*A*S*H)
1950 - Ed Raatleff (basketball)
1951 - Perry Smith (football)
1953 - Tom Hume (baseball)
1954 - Karen Anne Quinlan, NJ, famous comatose patient (right to die case)
1955 - Earl Campbell (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Houston Oilers, New Orleans Saints; Heisman Trophy winner: Texas [1977])
Famous
deaths
1546 - Cardinal Beaton, English
archbishop of St Andrews, murdered
1745 - Robert Walpole, 1st British premier (1722-42), dies at 68
1788 - Charles Wesley, hymn writer, dies
1792 - Gustav III, King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of wounds
1794 - Marie-Joseph de Condorcet, mathematician (Theory of Comets) and
philosopher, dies at 50 as a fugitive from French Revolution Terrorists
1848 - John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company, dies at 84
1891 - Georges-Pierre Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31
1912 - Robert F Scott, British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies
1924 - Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/writer, dies at 71
1957 - Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68
1958 - W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, composer, dies at 84
1972 - J Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, industrialist/film magnate
1982 - Carl Orff, German composer (Carmina Burana), dies at 86
1991 - Political strategist Lee Atwater, who'd helped propel President Bush to
his 1988 election victory, died at age 40 of complications resulting from a
brain tumor.
1992 - Earl Spencer, father of Lady Diana, dies at 68
1992 - Paul [G J von] Henreid, Austrian actor (Laszlo-Casablanca), dies at 84
1994 - Bill Travers, actor (Trio, Gorgo, Born Free), dies at 72
2001 - Pianist John Lewis, who masterminded the Modern Jazz Quartet, died in New
York at age 80.
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