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Mar 29, 1973: U.S. withdraws from Vietnam
Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America's direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end. In Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam.
In 1961, after two decades of indirect military aid, U.S. President John F. Kennedy sent the first large force of U.S. military personnel to Vietnam to bolster the ineffectual autocratic regime of South Vietnam against the communist North. Three years later, with the South Vietnamese government crumbling, President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered limited bombing raids on North Vietnam, and Congress authorized the use of U.S. troops. By 1965, North Vietnamese offensives left President Johnson with two choices: escalate U.S. involvement or withdraw. Johnson ordered the former, and troop levels soon jumped to more than 300,000 as U.S. air forces commenced the largest bombing campaign in history.
During the next few years, the extended length of the war, the high number of U.S. casualties, and the exposure of U.S. involvement in war crimes, such as the massacre at My Lai, helped turn many in the United States against the Vietnam War. The communists' Tet Offensive of 1968 crushed U.S. hopes of an imminent end to the conflict and galvanized U.S. opposition to the war. In response, Johnson announced in March 1968 that he would not seek reelection, citing what he perceived to be his responsibility in creating a perilous national division over Vietnam. He also authorized the beginning of peace talks.
In the spring of 1969, as protests against the war escalated in the United States, U.S. troop strength in the war-torn country reached its peak at nearly 550,000 men. Richard Nixon, the new U.S. president, began U.S. troop withdrawal and "Vietnamization" of the war effort that year, but he intensified bombing. Large U.S. troop withdrawals continued in the early 1970s as President Nixon expanded air and ground operations into Cambodia and Laos in attempts to block enemy supply routes along Vietnam's borders. This expansion of the war, which accomplished few positive results, led to new waves of protests in the United States and elsewhere.
Finally, in January 1973, representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed a peace agreement in Paris, ending the direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. Its key provisions included a cease-fire throughout Vietnam, the withdrawal of U.S. forces, the release of prisoners of war, and the reunification of North and South Vietnam through peaceful means. The South Vietnamese government was to remain in place until new elections were held, and North Vietnamese forces in the South were not to advance further nor be reinforced.
In reality, however, the agreement was little more than a face-saving gesture by the U.S. government. Even before the last American troops departed on March 29, the communists violated the cease-fire, and by early 1974 full-scale war had resumed. At the end of 1974, South Vietnamese authorities reported that 80,000 of their soldiers and civilians had been killed in fighting during the year, making it the most costly of the Vietnam War.
On April 30, 1975, the last few Americans still in South Vietnam were airlifted out of the country as Saigon fell to communist forces. North Vietnamese Colonel Bui Tin, accepting the surrender of South Vietnam later in the day, remarked, "You have nothing to fear; between Vietnamese there are no victors and no vanquished. Only the Americans have been defeated." The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular foreign war in U.S. history and cost 58,000 American lives. As many as two million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians were killed.
Mar 29, 1951: Rosenbergs convicted of espionage
In one of the most sensational trials in American history, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II. The husband and wife were later sentenced to death and were executed in 1953.
The conviction of the Rosenbergs was the climax of a fast-paced series of events that were set in motion with the arrest of British physicist Klaus Fuchs in Great Britain in February 1950. British authorities, with assistance from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, gathered evidence that Fuchs, who worked on developing the atomic bomb both in England and the United States during World War II, had passed top-secret information to the Soviet Union. Fuchs almost immediately confessed his role and began a series of accusations.
Fuchs confessed that American Harry Gold had served as a courier for the Soviet agents to whom Fuchs passed along his information. American authorities captured Gold, who thereupon pointed the finger at David Greenglass, a young man who worked at the laboratory where the atomic bomb had been developed. Gold claimed Greenglass was even more heavily involved in spying than Fuchs. Upon his arrest, Greenglass readily confessed and then accused his sister and brother-in-law, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, of being the spies who controlled the entire operation. Both Ethel and Julius had strong leftist leanings and had been heavily involved in labor and political issues in the United States during the late-1930s and 1940s. Julius was arrested in July and Ethel in August 1950.
By present-day standards, the trial was remarkably fast. It began on March 6, and the jury had convicted both of conspiracy to commit espionage by March 29. The Rosenbergs were not helped by a defense that many at the time, and since, have labeled incompetent. More harmful, however, was the testimony of Greenglass and Gold. Greenglass declared that Julius Rosenberg had set up a meeting during which Greenglass passed the plans for the atomic bomb to Gold. Gold supported Greenglass's accusation and admitted that he then passed the plans along to a Soviet agent. This testimony sealed Julius's fate, and although there was little evidence directly tying Ethel to the crime, prosecutors claimed that she was the brain behind the whole scheme. The jury found both guilty. A few days later, the Rosenbergs were sentenced to death. They were executed on June 19, 1953 in Sing Sing Prison in New York. Both maintained their innocence to the end.
The Rosenberg case garnered worldwide attention. Their supporters claimed they were being made scapegoats to the Cold War hysteria that was sweeping America. The French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre called their execution a "legal lynching." Others pointed out that even if the Rosenbergs did pass secrets along to the Soviets during World War II, Russia had been an ally, not an enemy, of the United States at the time. Those who supported the verdict insisted that the couple got what they deserved for endangering national security by giving top-secret information on a devastating weapon to communists.
Mar 29, 1945: Patton takes Frankfurt
On this day, Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd Army captures Frankfurt, as "Old Blood and Guts" continues his march east.
Frankfurt am Main, literally "On the Main" River, in western Germany, was the mid-19th century capital of Germany (it was annexed by Prussia in 1866, ending its status as a free city). Once integrated into a united German nation, it developed into a significant industrial city—and hence a prime target for Allied bombing during the war. That bombing began as early as July 1941, during a series of British air raids against the Nazis. In March 1944, Frankfurt suffered extraordinary damage during a raid that saw 27,000 tons of bombs dropped on Germany in a single month. Consequently, Frankfurt's medieval Old Town was virtually destroyed (although it would be rebuilt in the postwar period—replete with modern office buildings).
In late December 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, General Patton broke through the German lines of the besieged Belgian city of Bastogne, relieving its valiant defenders. Patton then pushed the Germans east. Patton's goal was to cross the Rhine, even if not a single bridge was left standing over which to do it. As Patton reached the banks of the river on March 22, 1945, he found that one bridge—the Ludendorff Bridge, located in the little town of Remagen—had not been destroyed. American troops had already made a crossing on March 7—a signal moment in the war and in history, as an enemy army had not crossed the Rhine since Napoleon accomplished the feat in 1805. Patton grandly made his crossing, and from the bridgehead created there, Old Blood and Guts and his 3rd Army headed east and captured Frankfurt on the 29th.
Patton then crossed through southern Germany and into Czechoslovakia, only to encounter an order not to take the capital, Prague, as it had been reserved for the Soviets. Patton was, not unexpectedly, livid.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
502 - Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power
1461 - Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the
Roses)
1549 - The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of
Brazil, is founded.
1632 - Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec
to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
1638 - 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish
Lutherans)
1673 - Eng king Charles II accept Test Act: RC excluded of
public functions
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in
the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera just 13 days
earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
1795 - Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
1798 - Republic of Switzerland forms
1799 - New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing
slavery in the state.
1804 - Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti
1806 - Construction is authorized of the Great National
Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States
federal highway.
1809 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup
d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to
Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland
from Sweden.
1827 - 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
1831 - Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey.
1847 - 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico
1848 - Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an
ice jam
1849 - Great Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of
Sikhs in India
1849 - The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
King Charles IIKing Charles II 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 NYC
1864 - Great Britain gives the Ionian Islands back to Greece
1864 - Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia
Arkansas
1865 - -Apr 9th], Appomattox campaign, VA , 7582 killed
1865 - Battle of Quaker Road, VA
1867 - British North America Act (Canadian constitution)
passes
1867 - Congress approves Lincoln Memorial
1871 - Albert Hall 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-Coke
1897 - Japan adopts Gold Standard
1906 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Kenora Thisles
in 2 games
Naval Officer and Explorer Robert ScottNaval Officer and
Explorer Robert Scott 1912 - Capt Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near
South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1919 - Stanley Cup: Mont (NHL) & Seat (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 Seagrave races his Sunbeam to a record
203.79 mph at Daytona
1928 - Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (NYC)
1929 - Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep NY Rangers in 2
games
1930 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
1932 - Jack Benny debuts on radio, on Ed Sullivan's New York
interview program
1934 - Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's
movement bankrupt
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 Wash State 39-34
1941 - WPAT radio in NJ 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
1942 - The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first
major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
1943 - Meat, butter & cheese rationed in US during WW II
1943 - Meat rationed in US (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for
GI's
1945 - World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on
England.
1946 - 1st Test Cricket between Australia & NZ
1946 - Test Cricket debuts of Lindwall, Miller & Tallon
1947 - "Beggar's Holiday" closes at Broadway
Theater NYC after 111 perfs
1948 - Drachtster Boys soccer team forms in Drachten
1948 - Yanks & 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," Judy
Holliday & J Ferrer win
1951 - Julius & Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of spying
1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
1958 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Carol
Heiss
1958 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by David
Jenkins
Actress Marilyn MonroeActress Marilyn Monroe 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 ratified, allows Wash DC residents to
vote for pres
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 Pres Frondizi flees from the army
1962 - Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight
Show"
1963 - Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor
Malone"
1966 - "It's a Bird... It's Superman" opens at
Alvin NYC for 129 perfs
1966 - Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for
heavyweight boxing title
1967 - WCMU TV channel 14 in Mt. 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 perfs
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammad AliHeavyweight Boxing
Champion Muhammad Ali 1970 - Manchester City wins 10th Europe Cup II
1971 - 1st Lt 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 - Royal Albert Hall opens
1971 - WSVN (now WSBN) TV channel 47 in Norton, VA (PBS)
begins broadcasting
1973 - Dave Cowens, wins NBA MVP
1973 - US troops leave Vietnam, 9 yrs after Tonkin
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
1976 - 48th Academy Awards - "One Flew over the Cuckoo's
Nest," Jack Nicholson & Louise Fletcher wins
Actor Jack NicholsonActor Jack Nicholson 1979 - Andrew
Hilditch given out handled the ball v 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 110m
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards: Mommie Dearest wins
1982 - 44th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats
Georgetown 63-62
1982 - 54th Academy Awards - "Chariots of Fire,"
Henry Fonda & K Hepburn win
1982 - Delhi 707 beat Karnataka 705 on 1st innings to win
Ranji Trophy
1984 - NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece
NHL all-time top scorer Wayne GretzkyNHL all-time top scorer
Wayne Gretzky 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
routs Louisiana 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
1987 - 7th Golden Raspberry Awards: Howard the Duck wins
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 makes suborbital
test flight (NM)
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
1989 - Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in NY for
racketeering
Actor Dustin HoffmanActor Dustin Hoffman 1992 -
"Conversations with My Father" opens at Royale NYC for 462 perfs
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 NYC
1992 - Ice Dance Championship at Oakland won by Klimova
& Ponomarenko (CIS)
1992 - Ice Pairs Championship at Oakland won by Mishuktienok
& Dmitriev (CIS)
1992 - Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Oak won by Kristi
Yamaguchi (USA)
1992 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Oakland won by
Viktor Petrenko (CIS)
1992 - NCAA Basketball Women's Championship at Kemper Arena,
KC
1993 - 65th Academy Awards - "Unforgiven," Al
Pacino & Emma Thompson win
1993 - Queensland all out for 75 v NSW in Sheffield Shield
Final
1993 - Actress Elizabeth Taylor presented the Jean Hersholt
Humanitarian Award for work for AIDs causes at 65th Academy Awards
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
Actress Elizabeth TaylorActress Elizabeth Taylor 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
1996 - Cleveland Browns choose new name, Baltimore Ravens
1996 - NY Yankees beats NY Mets 7-3 in an exhibition game
1997 - 1st game at Turner Field Atlanta, Braves beats Yanks
2-0 (exhibition)
1997 - PBA National Championship Won by Rick Steelsmith
1998 - 17th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at Kemper
Arena KC
1998 - 27th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship
1998 - Vasco da Gama Road bridge opens in Lisbon, Portugal
as the longest bridge in Europe
1999 - 61st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at
ThunderDome St Petersburg
1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 -
above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever.
2004 - Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania,
Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
2004 - The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in
the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
2010 - Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro
system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.
2013 - 10 people are killed and 31 are injured by a blast
outside the US consulate in Pakistan
2013 - 23 people are killed by coordinated bombings on
Shiite mosques in Iraq
2013 - 36 people are killed after a 16-floor building
collapses in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2013 - UN regulation of international arms trade is blocked
by North Korea, Iran, and Syria
2013 - Soyuz TMA-08M sets a new record of 6 hours in orbit
before docking with the International Space Station
2013 - American horse, Animal Kingdom, wins the 2013 Dubai
World Cup
1461 - Edward IV secured his claim to the English thrown by defeating Henry VI’s Lancastrians at the battle of Towdon. 1638 - First permanent European settlement in Delaware was established. 1847 - U.S. troops under General Winfield Scott took possession of the Mexican stronghold at Vera Cruz. 1848 - Niagara Falls stopped flowing for one day due to an ice jam. 1867 - The British Parliament passed the North America Act to create the Dominion of Canada. 1882 - The Knights of Columbus organization was granted a charter by the State of Connecticut. 1901 - The first federal elections were held in Australia. 1903 - A regular news service began between New York and London on Marconi's wireless. 1906 - In the U.S., 500,000 coal miners walked off the job seeking higher wages. 1913 - The Reichstag announced a raise in taxes in order to finance the new military budget. 1916 - The Italians call off the fifth attack on Isonzo. 1932 - Jack Benny made his radio debut. 1936 - Italy firebombed the Ethiopian city of Harar. 1941 - The British sank five Italian warships off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean. 1943 - In the U.S. rationing of meat, butter and cheese began during World War II. 1946 - Fiorella LaGuardia became the director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Organization. 1946 - Gold Coast became the first British colony to hold an African parliamentary majority. 1951 - The Chinese reject MacArthur's offer for a truce in Korea. 1951 - In the United States, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They were executed in June 19, 1953. 1961 - The 23rd amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment allowed residents of Washington, DC, to vote for president. 1962 - Cuba opened the trial of the Bay of Pigs invaders. 1962 - Jack Paar made his final appearance on the "Tonight" show. 1966 - Leonid Brezhnev became the First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. He denounced the American policy in Vietnam and called it one of aggression. 1967 - France launched its first nuclear submarine. 1971 - Lt. William Calley Jr., of the U.S. Army, was found guilty of the premeditated murder of at least 22 Vietnamese civilians. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial was the result of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam on March 16, 1968. 1971 - A jury in Los Angeles recommended the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders. The death sentences were later commuted to live in prison. 1973 - "Hommy," the Puerto Rican version of the rock opera "Tommy," opened in New York City. 1973 - The last U.S. troops left South Vietnam. 1974 - Mariner 10, the U.S. space probe became the first spacecraft to reach the planet Mercury. It had been launched on November 3, 1973. 1974 - Eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted on charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. All the guardsmen were later acquitted. 1975 - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat declared that he would reopen the Suez Canal on June 5, 1975. 1979 - The Committee on Assassinations Report issued by U.S. House of Representatives stated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was the result of a conspiracy. 1982 - The soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" changed from CBS to NBC. 1986 - A court in Rome acquitted six men in a plot to kill the Pope. 1987 - Hulk Hogan took 11 minutes, 43 seconds to pin Andre the Giant in front of 93,136 at Wrestlemania III fans at the Silverdome in Pontiac, MI. 1992 - Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton said "I didn't inhale and I didn't try it again" in reference to when he had experimented with marijuana. 1993 - The South Korean government agreed to pay financial support to women who had been forced to have sex with Japanese troops during World War II. 1993 - Clint Eastwood won his first Oscars. He won them for best film and best director for the film "Unforgiven." 1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a constitutional amendment that would have limited terms to 12 years in the U.S. House and Senate. 1998 - Tennessee won the woman's college basketball championship over Louisiana. Tennessee had set a NCAA record with regular season record or 39-0. 1999 - At least 87 people died in an earthquake in India's Himalayan foothills. 1999 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 10,000 mark for the first time. 2004 - Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia became members of NATO.
1848 For the first time in recorded history, Niagara Falls stopped flowing. An ice jam in the Niagara River above the rim of the falls caused the water to stop. 1867 The North America Act was passed by the British parliament, creating the dominion of Canada. 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of passing atomic secrets to the Russians and were sentenced to death. 1971 Lt. William Calley was convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre. 1973 The last U.S. troops left South Vietnam. 1999 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 10,000 for the first time, at 10,006.78. 2002 Israel declared Yasir Arafat an enemy.
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http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/mar29.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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