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.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  4 Vesta
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  Vesta
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  M1911 Pistol
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  Terracotta Army
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  Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers
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  Grand opening of the Royal Albert Hall
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  Royal Albert Hall
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  Royal Albert Hall
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  White Rose of York
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  Memorial for the Battle of Towton
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  Viking siege of Paris
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  Part of the Terracotta Army

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1638 – New Sweden, near Delaware Bay, was founded as the first Swedish colony in the Americas.	refimprove
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
1859 – The first edition of The Irish Times was published.	Orange "additional citations needed" banner
1849 – The United Kingdom annexed the Punjab region.	date not in article
1871 – The Royal Albert Hall (pictured) in Albertopolis, London, was officially opened by Queen Victoria.	tagged for recentism and citations needed
1911 – The M1911 pistol, developed by American firearms designer John Browning, became the standard-issue sidearm in the United States Army.	too many (>20) {cn} tags
1942 – Second World War: The Royal Air Force completed a bombing raid on Lübeck, the first major success for RAF Bomber Command against a German city.	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
1969 – The New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, was formed.	Multiple issues
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 expansion: Viking raiders, possibly led by the legendary Ragnar Lodbrok, plundered and occupied Paris (depicted), holding the city for a large ransom.
• 1430 – After an eight-year siege, the Ottoman Empire captured the city of Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.
• 1461 – Wars of the Roses: Yorkist troops defeated Lancastrian forces in Yorkshire at the Battle of Towton, one of the largest land battles ever fought in England.

• 1800 – William Matthews was ordained as the first Catholic priest born in British America.
• 1807 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Vesta, the brightest asteroid and 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 Army of Northern Virginia was forced into a series of retreats that would culminate in their surrender.
• 1941 – The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement to define technical standards for AM band radio stations came into effect.
• 1941 – Second World War: British and Australian ships defeated Italian Regia Marina vessels at the Battle of Cape Matapan.
• 1951 – The King and I, a musical about Mongkut of Siam by Rodgers and Hammerstein, premiered on Broadway.
• 1968 – The funeral of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, began in Moscow with tens of thousands of people in attendance.
• 1974 – A group of farmers in the Chinese province of Shaanxi discovered a vast collection of terracotta statues (pictured) depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China.
• 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 Men's Elite Race and Joyce Smith won the Women's Elite Race in the inaugural London Marathon.
• 1982 – Queen Elizabeth II granted royal assent to the Canada Act 1982, which ended any remaining constitutional dependence of Canada on the United Kingdom by a process known as patriation.
• 2010 – Islamist separatists of the Caucasus Emirate detonated two bombs on the Moscow Metro, killing 40 people and injuring 102 others.
• 2017 – British prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
• Born/died this day: | Matthew Palaiologos Asen |d|1467| Santorio Santorio |b|1561| John Tyler |b|1790| Gottfried van Swieten |d|1803| Cornelio Saavedra |d|1829| Peig Sayers |b|1873| Lou Henry Hoover |b|1874| Friedrich Traun |b|1876| Charles-Valentin Alkan |d|1888| Georges Seurat |d|1891| March Fong Eu |b|1922| Harry Price |d|1948| Anna Louise Strong |d|1970| Johannes Leimena|d|1977| Helene Deutsch|d|1982| Haane Manahi |d|1986| Pap Cheyassin Secka |d|2012|

Notes

• 2 Pallas appears on March 28, so 4 Vesta should not appear in the same year

March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic (1959); Martyrs' Day in Madagascar (1947)

Mariner 10

• 1461 – Wars of the Roses: The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrian army at the Battle of Towton, allowing Edward IV to secure the English throne.
• 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.
• 1974 – NASA's Mariner 10 (pictured) became the first space probe to make a flyby of Mercury.
• 1999 – The Chamoli earthquake, one of the strongest to hit the foothills of the Himalayas in more than 90 years, killed at least 100 people.
• 2014 – The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales took place following the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.

• Thomas Coram (d. 1751)
• Emilia Baeyertz (b. 1842)
• Sam Loxton (b. 1921)
• Ruth A. M. Schmidt (d. 2014)

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