What Happened On March 29

What Happened On Mar 29 Events

1676 Mar 29 Native Americans Completely Destroy Providence, RI
The new year of 1676 saw Philip weakened—somewhat. In January, he and his band traveled further west to Mohawk territory, seeking, but failing to secure, an alliance. The winter months sa...
1780 Mar 29
to 1780 May 12
 Siege Of Charleston
The Siege of Charleston was one of the major battles which took place towards the end of the American Revolutionary War, after the British began to shift their strategic focus towards the...
1848 Mar 29 Ice Dam Is Formed At The Source Of The Niagara River
An enormous ice dam formed at the source of the Niagara River on the eastern shore of Lake Erie on March 29, 1848. Just after midnight, the thunderous sound of water surging over the grea...
1865 Mar 29 Battle of Lewis's Farm
The Battle of Lewis's Farm (also known as Quaker Road, Military Road, or Gravelly Road) was fought on March 29, 1865, in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, during the American Civil War. It was ...
1919 Mar 29 Barnum and Bailey Circus Merges With Ringling Brothers Circus
The Ringlings purchased the Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1907 and ran the circuses separately until 1919. By that time, Charles Edward Ringling and John Nicholas Ringling were the only remai...
1929 Mar 29 Boston Bruins win Stanley Cup
The 1929 Stanley Cup Final NHL championship series was contested by the defending champion New York Rangers and the Boston Bruins. This was the first time in Stanley Cup history that two ...
1930 Mar 29 Montreal Canadiens win Stanley Cup
The 1930 Stanley Cup Final championship series was played between the Boston Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens. In a best of three series, Montreal won 4–3 and 3–0 to win the team's third...
1941 Mar 29 Wisconsin Beats Washington State in NCAA Men's Basketball Championship
The 1941 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 8 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. ...
1949 Mar 29 "The Set-Up" Is Released
The Set-Up (1949) is an American film noir boxing drama directed by Robert Wise and featuring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter. The screenplay was adapted by Art Cohn from a 1928 poem writte...
1951 Mar 29 23rd Academy Awards
The 23rd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1950. The nominations were noticeable this year, as All About Eve was nominated for fourteen Oscars, beating the p...
1959 Mar 29 "Some Like It Hot" Is Released
Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. The supporting cast includes George Raft, Joe E. Brown, ...
1961 Mar 29 The Twenty-third Amendment is ratified
The Twenty-third Amendment (Amendment XXIII) to the United States Constitution permits the District of Columbia to choose Electors for President and Vice President. The amendment was prop...
1971 Mar 29 2nd Lieutenant William L. Calley Becomes Sole Conviction in My Lai Massacre
On November 17, 1970, the United States Army charged 14 officers, including Major General Samuel W. Koster, the Americal Division's commanding officer, with suppressing information relate...
1976 Mar 29 48th Academy Awards
The 48th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1976 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie...
1976 Mar 29 Indiana Beats Michigan in Final Four
The 1976 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball....
1982 Mar 29 54th Academy Awards
The 54th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1982 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson. Chariots of Fire was the surpri...
1982 Mar 29 North Carolina Beats Georgetown in Final Four
The 1982 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 48 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball....
1982 Mar 29 Scorpions release Blackout
Blackout is the eighth studio album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1982. After losing his voice during the writing of the album, lead vocalist Klaus Meine had to...
1982 Mar 29 "The Number of the Beast" by Iron Maiden Is Released
The Number of the Beast is the third studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. The album was released on March 29, 1982 through EMI. This was the debut of vocalist Bruce Dicki...
1985 Mar 29 "Desperately Seeking Susan" Is Released
Desperately Seeking Susan is a 1985 film directed by Susan Seidelman and starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna. This movie was rated PG-13 in the USA & 15 in the UK
1987 Mar 29 Aretha Franklin Sings at Wrestlemania III
On March 29, 1987, Franklin sang "America the Beautiful" at WrestleMania III.
1987 Mar 29 WrestleMania III
WrestleMania III was the third annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). The event was held on March 29, 1987 at the ...
1993 Mar 29 65th Academy Awards
The 65th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1993 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. This was the fourth consecutive show hosted by Billy Crystal. Unforgiven won four Osc...
1993 Mar 29 FDA Approves Sanofi Aventis's Lovenox
Lovenox is an anticoagulant (blood thinner) that prevents the formation of blood clots. Lovenox is used to treat or prevent a type of blood clot called deep vein thrombosis (DVT), whic...
1996 Mar 29 Virtua Fighter Animation is Released
Virtua Fighter Animation (known in Japan as Virtua Fighter Mini (バーチャファイターMini)) is a 1996 versus fighting video game for the Sega Game Gear and Sega Master System. It is based on the Vir...
1998 Mar 29 WrestleMania XIV
WrestleMania XIV was the fourteenth WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), which took place on March 29, 1998 at th...
1999 Mar 29 UConn Beats Duke in Final Four
The 1999 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball....
2001 Mar 29 Avjet Aspen Crash
The 2001 Avjet Aspen crash occurred on March 29, 2001 when a chartered Avjet Corporation Gulfstream III business jet, registration N303GA, crashed into terrain while on instrument approac...
2002 Mar 29
to 2002 May 3
 Operation Defensive Shield
Operation Defensive Shield was a large-scale military operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002, during the course of the Second Intifada. It was the largest military opera...
2002 Mar 29 "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" is Released
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is a 2002 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook which follows the character Ryu trying to earn enough money for his sister's kidney transplant and the pa...
2004 Mar 29 "5 Colours In Her Hair" Is Released
"5 Colours in Her Hair" is the debut single from the British pop band McFly. This was also their first number one in the UK Singles Chart. It stood at the top for two weeks. The song was ...
2006 Mar 29 America's Next Top Model Cycle 6 Episode 5
This episode featured the girls receiving lessons on commercial and high-fashion posing from Janice Dickinson and Lisa from Cycle 5. Their challenge was to model for a Sears catalog, usin...
2006 Mar 29 South Park Episode 1002 - "Smug Alert!"
Stan persuades all the citizens of South Park to buy hybrid cars. A disaster of epic proportions threatens the town and Stan is to blame -- just as everyone starts to feel really good abo...
2008 Mar 29 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections are Held in Zimbabwe
A parliamentary election was held in Zimbabwe on March 29, 2008 to elect members to both the House of Assembly and the Senate of the Zimbabwean parliament. The ruling Zimbabwe African Nat...
2009 Mar 29 Boston Bruins defeat Philadelphia Flyers, 4-3
Early in last night's second period, the Bruins had a 3-1 lead. But then at 4:33 of the second, Blake Wheeler was busted for hooking when he corralled forward Joffrey Lupul. Eight seco...
2009 Mar 29 Boston Celtics defeat Oklahoma City Thunder, 103-84
Glen Davis does not expect to remind anyone of Kevin Garnett, but he is producing Garnett-type numbers. Davis had his second successive double-double (19 points, 10 rebounds) in the Celti...
2009 Mar 29 Hannah Montana Season 3 Episode 12
Miley's Mamaw (Vicki Lawrence) visits while Robby attends a high-school reunion. She ends up running the school cafeteria with an iron fist, prompting Miley and Jackson to devise a plan t...
2009 Mar 29 Miley And Mandy Show: KCA VIDEO WINNERS
letting you know who won the contest and thanking you for the kca!
2010 Mar 29 Buffalo Sabres defeat Boston Bruins, 3-2
BOSTON (AP) The way Ryan Miller and the Buffalo Sabres are closing out games could make them extremely tough to face a few weeks from now. Tyler Myers had a goal and set up Paul Gausta...
2010 Mar 29 Minnesota Wild defeat Los Angeles Kings, 3-2
Most mortals would have packed it in already. But Greg Zanon, playing on a broken ankle for two weeks, probably bleeds green or something. The man who would stand in front of an 18-whe...
2010 Mar 29 Moscow Metro Bombings
With a pair of powerful blasts on Moscow subway cars that killed at least 38 people Monday, two female suicide bombers shattered Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's claim to have contained a ...
2010 Mar 29 Utah Jazz defeat New York Knicks, 103-98
SALT LAKE CITY - Carlos Boozer will gladly discuss his beloved Yankees, Duke basketball, the genius of Mike D'Antoni and LeBron James' next career move. (He's got LeBron staying in Clevel...
2011 Mar 29 Sum 41 releases Screaming Bloody Murder
Screaming Bloody Murder is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Sum 41, released on March 29, 2011, after many delays. It was the band's second album produced by the band's frontm...
2011 Mar 29 US Intelligence Source Reveals CIA Operating in Libya
The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and to contact and vet the beleaguered rebels battling Col. M...