🏰 On this day in History - March 29, 2024
1982 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Mommie Dearest wins
1997 1st game at Turner Field Atlanta, Braves beats Yanks 2-0 (exhibition)
1975 Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
1989 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL
1928 Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (NYC)
1994 Last day of Test cricket for Allan Border
1951 23rd Academy Awards - "All About Eve," Judy Holliday & J Ferrer win
1929 Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep NY Rangers in 2 games
1979 Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine," premieres in London
1973 Dave Cowens, wins NBA MVP
1992 Herb Gardner's "Conversations With My Father," premieres in NYC
1996 Cleveland Browns choose new name, Baltimore Ravens
1865 Battle of Quaker Road, VA
1936 10,000 watch the 200" mirror blank passing through Indianapolis
1934 Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt
1982 44th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats Georgetown 63-62
1998 17th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Kemper Arena KC
1996 NY Yankees beats NY Mets 7-3 in an exhibition game
1860 Dion Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn," premieres in NYC
1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
1971 WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1989 I M Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris
1798 Republic of Switzerland forms
1942 British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
1461 Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)
1942 British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire: 400 Germans die
1927 Henry O D Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona
1961 23rd Amendment ratified, allows Wash DC residents to vote for pres
1942 German submarine U-585 sinks
1993 65th Academy Awards - "Unforgiven," Al Pacino & Emma Thompson win
1969 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines
1795 Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
1947 "Beggar's Holiday" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 111 perfs
1936 Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
1827 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
1932 Jack Benny debuts on radio
1992 21st Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Dottie Mochrie
1847 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico [or 0327?]
1970 Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II
1961 KCPT TV channel 19 in Kansas City, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1940 Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title
1982 54th Academy Awards - "Chariots of Fire," Henry Fonda & K Hepburn win
1882 Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men
1967 WCMU TV channel 14 in Mt. Pleasant, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1941 WPAT radio in NJ begins broadcasting (country music format)
1971 Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines
1971 Royal Albert Hall opens
1948 Drachtster Boys soccer team forms in Drachten
1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM
1987 Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party
1987 6th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Tennessee routs Louisiana 67-44
1992 NCAA Basketball Women's Championship at Kemper Arena, KC
1996 10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men
1981 "Woman of the Year" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 770 performances
1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend Ala: Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians
1865 -Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, VA , 7582 killed
1975 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Karsten-Ping Golf Open
1673 Eng king Charles II accept Test Act: RC excluded of public functions
1962 Argentine Pres Frondizi flees from the army
1989 61st Academy Awards - "Rainman," Dustin Hoffman & Jodie Foster win
1804 Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti
1968 Students seize building at Bowie State College
1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of spying
1984 NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis
1871 Albert Hall opens by Queen Victoria in London
1979 Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball v Pakistan at WACA
1982 Delhi 707 beat Karnataka 705 on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1948 Yanks & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17, spring training game
1992 12th Golden Raspberry Awards: Hudson Hawk wins
1992 Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Oak won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)
1959 "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe & Jack Lemmon premieres
1985 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist
1988 "Oba Oba" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 46 performances
1976 38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan 86-68
1864 Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece
1961 After a 4« year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge
1943 Meat, butter & cheese rationed in US during WW II
1986 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
1994 Serbs & Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia
1919 Stanley Cup: Mont (NHL) & Seat (PCHA) win 2 games each with 1 tie, 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic
1989 9th Golden Raspberry Awards: Cocktail wins
0502 Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power
1960 Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres
1992 Ice Dance Championship at Oakland won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (CIS)
1981 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1941 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem"
1867 Congress approves Lincoln Memorial
1988 US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras
1989 1st US private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight (NM)
1973 US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
1992 Men's Fig Skating Championship in Oakland won by Viktor Petrenko (CIS)
1971 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
1987 Wrestlemania III-93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant
1951 "King & I" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1246 performances
1946 1st Test Cricket between Australia & NZ
1985 Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece
1979 Last day of Test cricket for Mushtaq Mohammad
1981 Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110m
1979 Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1971 Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
1867 British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes
1958 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
1966 "It's a Bird... It's Superman" opens at Alvin NYC for 129 perfs
1998 27th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship
1963 Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone"
1971 Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor
1959 Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore
1997 Actor Harry Hamlin weds actress Lisa Rinna
1997 PBA National Championship Won by Rick Steelsmith
1987 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1962 Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight Show"
1992 Ice Pairs Championship at Oakland won by Mishuktienok & Dmitriev (CIS)
1912 Capt Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1943 Meat rationed in US (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's
1974 Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
1993 Queensland all out for 75 v NSW in Sheffield Shield Final
1864 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia Arkansas
1966 Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1989 Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in NY for racketeering
1638 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
1946 Test Cricket debuts of Lindwall, Miller & Tallon
1994 Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys
1970 "Look to the Lilies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 perfs
1879 Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow
1897 Japan adopts Gold Standard
1949 Turkey recognizes Israel
1850 Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die
1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1906 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in 2 games
1924 Bayern & Vatican reach accord
1976 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
1958 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1849 Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India
1852 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day
1935 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage
1886 Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Coke
1999 61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at ThunderDome St Petersburg
1992 "Conversations with My Father" opens at Royale NYC for 462 perfs
1941 3rd NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Wisconsin beats Wash State 39-34
1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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