March 29: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

March 29th marks the 88th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 89th in case of leap years). There are 277 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Aries. Famous birthdays on this day include Lucy Lawless (1968), Christophe Lambert (1957) and Elle MacPherson (1963).
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Holidays

St. Bertold (d.1179)
Blessed Hugo (d.1239)
St. Ludolf of Ratzeburg (d.1250)
St. Eustace
Memorial day and commemoration of the 1947 revolt against French colonisation in Madagascar
Youth Day in Taiwan
Festival of Ishtar.
St. Jonas (d. 327)
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Events

2019 After Cyclone Idai's devastation, the number of cholera-infected people in Mozambique jumped to 139.
2018 2016 Berlin Attack: Five Tunisians arrested by Italian Police for links to Anis Amri. This Tunisian was responsible for the terror attack on December 16, 2016.
2017 Turkish military intervention in Syria: The Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announces the end of Opera Euphrates Shield. It was an international military operation against ISIL. He added: "Any operation that follows this one will be called something else." (Deutsche Welle),
2016 2016 Brussels bombings: Officials in Belgium have reduced the death toll to 32 from 35, while nearly 100 people are still being treated. (UPI).Brussels Zaventem International Airport CEO Arnaud Fist said Wednesday that the airport would reopen at less then a quarter capacity as ongoing tests determine which flights are allowed to resume. Feist said that it could take several months before the airport reaches full capacity.
2015 2015 military intervention in Yemen. Pakistan sends a Boeing 777 to evacuate Pakistani citizens who are concerned about their safety. The plane will be allowed to enter the country, despite the Saudi Arabian no-fly zone.
2014 The Driehaus Prize is won by Pier Carlo Bontempi, an Italian architect.
2013 Terrorism is in Pakistan: A blast close to the United States Consulate at Peshawar in Pakistan kills 10 and injures at least 31 more.
2012 Adrienne Rich, an essayist, poet and public intellectual, has died. She is credited with helping to bring the oppression against women and lesbians into the forefront of poetic discourse.
2011 Arab Spring
2010 15 people were arrested by Israel, 2 journalists included, during a police raid on a protest in Bethlehem.
2009 General Motors Chairman/CEO Rick Wagoner steps down
2008 Earth Hour is a first-ever event that brings together 35 countries and more than 370 cities.
2007 The United Nations Security Council expressed "grave concern" about the capture of 15 Royal Navy sailors by Iran. It calls for the immediate release of these captives.
2006 Canada has officially severed all ties to Hamas cabinet members and suspended assistance to the Palestinian Authority.
2005 The new album Guero by Beck is out.
2004 The Republic of Ireland is the first country to ban smoking at work, bars, restaurants and in public places.
2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Dr. Carlo Urbani (a WHO expert on communicable disease and the doctor who first recognized the outbreak in Thailand), dies from the disease. He was infected in Vietnam.
2002 Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield, its largest military operation since 1967 Six-Day War, in response to the Passover massacre.
2001 18 people were killed when a chartered Gulfstream III jet crashed into a hillside on approach to Aspen, Colorado.
1999 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the internet boom.
1998 A series of tornadoes in southern Minnesota kills three people.
1997 Actor Harry Hamlin weds actress Lisa Rinna
1996 New York Yankees beats New York Mets 7-3 in an exhibition game.
1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM
1994 Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia
1993 65th Academy Awards - Unforgiven, Al Pacino and Emma Thompson win
1992 Conversations with My Father opens at Royale NYC for 462 performances
1990 New York City's Zodiac killer shoots second victim, Germaine Montenesdro.
1989 61st Academy Awards - Rainman, Dustin Hoffman and Jodie Foster win
1988 Oba Oba opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 46 performances
1987 7th Golden Raspberry Awards: Howard the Duck wins.
1985 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist.
1984 NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis under cover of night.
1982 54th Academy Awards - Chariots of Fire, Henry Fonda and K Hepburn win
1981 Woman of the Year opens at Palace Theater NYC for 770 performances
1979 Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball versus Pakistan at WACA.
1976 Eight Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting four Kent State students.
1975 Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
1974 NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973.
1973 US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin Resolution
1971 Royal Albert Hall opens
1970 Look to the Lilies opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 performances
1969 The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 is held in Madrid, and results in four co-winners, with 18 votes each, from Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France.
1968 Students seize building at Bowie State College.
1967 WCMU TV channel 14 in Mt. Pleasant, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 The 23rd Communist Party Conference is held in the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev demands that U.S. troops leave Vietnam, and announces that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfying.
1963 Final episode of soap opera Young Doctor Malone
1962 Argentine President Frondizi flees from the army.
1961 KCPT TV channel 19 in Kansas City, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 ''Tom Pillibi'' by Jacqueline Boyer (music by André Popp, text by Pierre Cour) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 for France.
1959 Some Like it Hot with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon premieres
1957 The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
1954 A C-47 transport with the French nurse Genevieve de Galard on board is wrecked on the runway at Dien Bien Phu.
1953 A fire at the Littlefield Nursing Home in Largo, Florida kills 33 persons, including singer-songwriter Arthur Fields.
1952 U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces that he will not seek reelection.
1951 King & I opens at St. James Theater NYC for 1246 performances
1949 Turkey recognizes Israel.
1948 Drachtster Boys soccer team forms in Drachten
1947 A rebellion against French rule erupts in Madagascar.
1946 Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded.
1945 World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
1943 Meat, butter and cheese rationed in US (784 gram/week, two kilogram for GI's).
1942 British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
1941 WPAT radio in New Jersey begins broadcasting
1940 Joe Louis knocks out Johnny Paycheck in two rounds to retain heavyweight boxing title.
1936 10,000 watch the 200 mirror blank passing through Indianapolis
1935 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage
1932 Jack Benny debuts on radio
1928 Yeshiva College chartered (New York City, New York).
1927 Henry O D Segrave races his Sunbeam car to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona; first auto to exceed 200 mph (322 kph).
1924 Bayern and Vatican reach accord.
1920 Sir William Robertson, who enlisted in 1877, becomes a field marshal in the British Army, the first man to rise to this rank from private.
1919 Stanley Cup: MontrTal (NHL) and Seattle (PCHA) win two games each with one tie; 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic.
1914 Katherine Routledge and her husband arrive in Easter Island to make the first true study of it (they depart August 1915)
1912 Captain Robert Scott, blizzard-bound in a tent 18 km from the South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far".
1906 Stanley Cup: MontrTal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in two games.
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