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🏰 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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