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Monday, March 29th, 2010



On this day . . .
0502 - Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power
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 accepts Test Act: Roman Catholic excluded of public functions
1795 - Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
1798 - Republic of Switzerland forms
1804 - Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti
1814 - Battle at Horseshoe Bend AL: Andrew Jackson beats Creek-Indians
1827 - 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
1847 - 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico
1848 - Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1849 - Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India
1850 - Ireland's SS Royal Adelaide sinks in storm; 200 die
1852 - Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day
1860 - Dion Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn" premieres in New York NY
1864 - Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece
1864 - Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia AR
1865 - Appomattox campaign, Virginia, 7582 killed
1865 - Battle of Quaker Road, Virginia
1867 - British North America Act (Canadian constitution) is passed
1867 - Congress approves Lincoln Memorial
1871 - Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria in London
1879 - Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin" premieres in Moscow
1882 - Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men
1886 - Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Cola (with cocaine)
1897 - Japan adopts Gold Standard
1906 - Stanley Cup: Montréal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles in 2 games
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"
1919 - Stanley Cup: Montréal (NHL) & Seattle (PCHA) win 2 games each with 1 tie; 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic
1924 - Bayern & Vatican reach accord
1927 - Henry O D Segrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona; 1st auto to exceed 200 mph (322 kph)
1928 - Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (New York NY)
1929 - Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep New York Rangers in 2 games
1932 - Jack Benny debuts on radio
1934 - Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt
1935 - French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage
1936 - 10,000 watch the 200" mirror blank passing through Indianapolis
1936 - Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
1940 - Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 to retain heavyweight boxing title
1941 - 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem"
1941 - 3rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Wisconsin beats Washington State 39-34
1941 - WPAT radio in New Jersey begins broadcasting (country music format)
1942 - British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea
1942 - British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire; 400 Germans die
1942 - German submarine U-585 sinks
1943 - Meat, butter & cheese rationed in US during WWII (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's)
1946 - 1st Test Cricket between Australia & New Zealand
1946 - Test Cricket debuts of Lindwall, Miller & Tallon
1947 - "Beggar's Holiday" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 111 performances
1948 - Drachtster Boys soccer team forms in Drachten
1948 - Yankees & Red Sox tie at 2-2 in 17, spring training game
1949 - Turkey recognizes Israel
1951 - "King & I" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1246 performances
1951 - 23rd Academy Awards: "All About Eve", Jose Ferrer & Judy Holliday win
1951 - Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage
1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
1958 - US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Carol Heiss
1958 - US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by David Jenkins
1959 - "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe & Jack Lemmon premieres
1959 - Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore
1960 - Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres
1961 - 23rd Amendment is ratified, allows Washington DC residents to vote for President
1961 - After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge
1961 - KCPT TV channel 19 in Kansas City MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - Argentine President Frondizi flees from the army
1962 - Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight Show"
1963 - Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone"
1964 - 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)
1966 - "It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman" opens at Alvin NYC for 129 performances
1966 - Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1967 - WCMU TV channel 14 in Mount Pleasant MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Students seize building at Bowie State College
1969 - Communist New People's Army found in Philippines
1970 - "Look to the Lilies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 performances
1970 - Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II
1971 - 1st Lieutenant William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
1971 - Chile President Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines
1971 - Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor
1971 - Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
1971 - WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 - Dave Cowens wins NBA MVP
1973 - Last US troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after Tonkin Gulf Resolution
1974 - Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
1975 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Karsten-Ping Golf Open
1975 - Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
1976 - 38th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Michigan 86-68
1976 - 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
1979 - Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball vs Pakistan at WACA
1979 - Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine" premieres in London
1979 - Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1979 - Last day of Test cricket for Mushtaq Mohammad
1981 - "Woman of the Year" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 770 performances
1981 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1981 - Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110 meter
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Mommie Dearest wins
1982 - 44th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Georgetown 63-62
1982 - 54th Academy Awards: "Chariots of Fire", Henry Fonda & Katharine Hepburn win
1982 - Delhi 707 beat Karnataka 705 on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1984 - NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis under cover of night
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - Christos Sartzetakis elected President of Greece
1985 - Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist
1986 - Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
1987 - 6th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Louisiana Tech 67-44
1987 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1987 - Wrestlemania III-93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant
1987 - Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party
1988 - "Oba Oba" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 46 performances
1988 - US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras
1989 - 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL
1989 - 1st US private commercial rocket takes suborbital test flight (New Mexico)
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 France
1989 - Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in New York for racketeering
1990 - Houston's Akeen Olajuwan scores the 3rd NBA quadruple double 18 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists & 11 blocks vs Milwaukee
1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 2nd victim, Germaine Montenesdro
1992 - "Conversations with My Father" opens at Royale NYC for 462 performances
1992 - 12th Golden Raspberry Awards: Hudson Hawk wins
1992 - 21st Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Dottie Mochrie
1992 - Herb Gardner's "Conversations With My Father" premieres in New York NY
1992 - NCAA Basketball Women's Championship at Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62
1992 - World Ice Dance Championship in Oakland won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (CIS)
1992 - World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Mishuktienok & Dmitriev (CIS)
1992 - World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Kristi Yamaguchi (USA)
1992 - World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oakland won by Viktor Petrenko (CIS)
1993 - 65th Academy Awards: "Unforgiven", Al Pacino & Emma Thompson win
1993 - Queensland all out for 75 vs New South Wales in Sheffield Shield Final
1994 - Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys
1994 - Last day of Test cricket for Allan Border
1994 - Serbs & Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia
1995 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago IL on WCKG 105.9 FM
1996 - 10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men win
1996 - Cleveland Browns choose new name, Baltimore Ravens
1996 - New York Yankees beats New York Mets 7-3 in an exhibition game
1997 - 1st game at Turner Field Atlanta, Braves beats Yankees 2-0 (exhibition)
1997 - Actor Harry Hamlin weds actress Lisa Rinna
1997 - PBA National Championship Won by Rick Steelsmith
1998 - 17th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Kemper Arena Kansas City,Tennessee beats Louisiana Tech 93-75
1998 - 27th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship
1999 - 61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at ThunderDome St Petersburg, UCONN beats Duke 77-74


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