Today in History - March 29
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1461 Mar 29,
Edward IV secured his claim to the English thrown in defeating Henry
VI’s Lancastrians at the battle of Towdon (Towton). Some 50,000 fought
and an estimated 28,000 were killed as the War of the Roses continued.
(HN, 3/29/99)(AM, 7/01, p.69)(AM, 7/01, p.68)(MC,
3/29/02)
1516 Mar 29, The Jewish Ghetto of
Venice, the first ghetto in Europe, was established on 29th of March
1516 by the government of Venetian Serenissima Republic.
(www.elitehotel.it/en/the_ancient_jewish_ghetto_in_venice_13en1341en.htm)
1546 Mar 29, Cardinal Beaton,
English archbishop of St. Andrews, was murdered.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1561 Mar 29, Santorio Sanctorius
was born in Trieste. He became a physician, and was burned at stake as
a heretic.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1638 Mar 29, The first permanent
white settlement was established in Delaware. Swedish Lutherans who
came to Delaware were the first to build log cabins in America. The
first English colonists did not know how to build houses from logs but
those who lived in the forests of Scandinavia, Germany and Switzerland
did. German pioneers who settled in Pennsylvania built the first log
cabins there in the early 1700s. The Scotch-Irish immigrants who
settled in the Appalachian highlands after 1720 made the widest use of
log cabins and by the time of the American Revolution, log cabins were
the mainstay among settlers all along the western frontier.
(HNQ, 9/15/99)(AP, 3/29/08)
1673 Mar 29, The English
Parliament passed the Test Act. It in effect excluded Roman Catholics
from public functions. King Charles II was unable to stop the action.
(www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide17/timeline40.html)
1722 Mar 29, Emanuel Swedenborg
(b.1688), Swedish scientist and clairvoyant, died in London. In 1744 he
entered into a spiritual phase in which he experienced dreams and
visions. The foundation of Swedenborg's theology was laid down in
“Arcana Cœlestia” (Heavenly Secrets), published in eight volumes from
1749 to 1756.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg)
1788 Mar 29, Charles Wesley, hymn
writer and brother of John Wesley, died.
(MC, 3/29/02)(WSJ, 6/13/03, p.W19)
1790 Mar 29, John Tyler, the 10th
president of the United States (1841-1845), was born in Charles City
County, Va. He was also the first vice-president to succeed to office
on the death of a president.
(AP, 3/29/97)(HN, 3/29/99)(MC, 3/29/02)
1791 Mar 29, Pres. George
Washington and French architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant examined the a
site along the Potomac River that would become the US capital. Maryland
and Virginia had ceded land to the federal government to form the
District of Columbia. Chosen as the permanent site for the capital of
the United States by Congress in 1790, President Washington was given
the power by Congress to select the exact site—an area ten-miles
square, made up of land given by Virginia and Maryland. Washington
became the official federal capital in 1800. In 2008 Fergus Bordewich
authored “Washington: The Making of the American Capital.”
(HNQ, 8/13/00)(HN, 8/2/98)(WSJ, 8/8/08, p.A13)
1792 Mar 29, Gustav III, King of
Sweden (1771-92), died of wounds inflicted by an assassin on March 16.
(AP, 3/16/06)
1795 Mar 29, Beethoven (24)
debuted as pianist in Vienna.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1798 Mar 29, Republic of
Switzerland formed.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1806 Mar 29, President Thomas
Jefferson commissioned the National Road, the first federally financed
interstate. Although it took decades to finish, the National Road
helped open the land west of the Appalachians to settlers and commerce.
It was later lengthened, paved and renamed U.S. 40, but was eclipsed in
the 1960s by Interstate 70, a parallel superhighway.
(AP, 6/3/06)
1814 Mar 29, In the Battle at
Horseshoe Bend, Alabama, Andrew Jackson beat the Creek Indians. [see
Mar 27]
(MC, 3/29/02)
1819 Mar 29, Edwin Drake (d.1890),
the man who drilled the first productive oil well (1859), was born.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1819 Mar 29, Isaac Mayer Wise,
rabbi, founder (American Hebrew Congregations), was born.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1827 Mar 29, Composer Ludwig van
Beethoven was buried in Vienna amidst a crowd of over 10,000 mourners.
(HN, 3/29/01)
1835 Mar 29, Elihu Thomson, the
English-born American inventor of electric welding and arc lighting,
was born.
(HN, 3/29/99)
1847 Mar 29, Some 12,000 US forces
led by General Winfield Scott occupied the city of Vera Cruz after
Mexican defenders capitulated.
(HFA, '96, p.26)(AP, 3/29/97)(MC, 3/29/02)
1848 Mar 29, Aleksei Kuropatkin,
Russian general, minister of War, was born (March 17 in the old style
calendar).
(www.russojapanesewar.com/kuro.html)
1848 Mar 29-1848 Mar 31, Niagara
Falls slowed to a trickle for about 30 hours due to an ice jam from
Lake Erie in the Niagara River.
(ON, 12/05, p.10)(SSFC, 3/29/09, p.C10)
1848 Mar 29, John Jacob Astor
(b.1763), America’s richest man, died. The fur and real estate magnate
had a value in 1999 dollars totaled $78 billion. In 2001 Axel Madsen
authored "John Jacob Astor: America’s First Multimillionaire.
(HN, 7/17/98)(WSJ, 1/11/98, p.R18)(SFEC, 5/23/99,
Par p.7)(WSJ, 3/2/00, p.W10)(MC, 3/29/02)
1850 Mar 29, Ireland's SS Royal
Adelaide sank in storm and 200 people died.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1852 Mar 29, Ohio made it illegal
for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1864 Mar 29, Union General
Steele's troops reached Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1865 Mar 29, Battle of Quaker
Road, Va.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1865 Mar 29-Apr 9, The Appomattox
campaign in Virginia left 7582 killed.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1867 Mar 29, Cy Young, major
league baseball pitcher with the most wins (509 or 511 total) , was
born.
(HN, 3/29/02)
1867 Mar 29, The United States
purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars. [see Mar 30]
(HN, 3/29/99)
1867 Mar 29, Congress approved the
Lincoln Memorial.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1867 Mar 29, The British
Parliament passed the North America Act (later known as the
Constitution Act) to create the Dominion of Canada.
(HN, 3/29/98)(AP, 3/29/07)
1871 Mar 29, Queen Victoria opened
Albert Hall in London.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1875 Mar 29, Lou Henry Hoover,
first lady, was born.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1879 Mar 29, Tchaikovsky’s opera
"Yevgeny Onegin," premiered in Moscow.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1879 Mar 29, Some 2,000 British
and Colonial troops of the 90th Light Infantry Regiment under the
command of Colonel Henry Evelyn Wood repulsed a major attack by 20,000
Zulu tribesmen at Kambula, Zululand. Jubilant over their victory at
Hlobane the day before, the Zulus prepared to finish off the British at
Khambula. This time, however, the outcome was different as the Zulus
vainly assaulted British foes who were dug in and ready for them. The
assault, depicted in "The Battle of Khambula" by Angus McBride, ended
in failure for the Zulus, leaving them doubting for the first time
their ability to win the Anglo-Zulu War.
(HN, 3/29/99)(MC, 3/29/02)
1881 Mar 29, Raymond Hood,
architect, was born.
(HN, 3/29/01)
1882 Mar 29, The Knights of
Columbus was granted a charter by the state of Connecticut.
(AP, 3/29/07)
1886 Mar 29, Coca-Cola was
advertised for the first time in the Atlanta Daily. Its inventor, Dr.
John Pemberton, claimed it could cure anything from hysteria to the
common cold. John Stith (Doc) Pemberton, pharmacist, concocted a bath
of a dark, sugary syrup meant to be mixed with carbonated water and
sold at the city’s soda fountains. This was the beginning of Coca Cola,
which then contained enough cocaine to give the a drinker a buzz and
more caffeine than the drink contains today. Sales at the soda fountain
of Jacob‘s Pharmacy averaged 9 drinks a day in the first year. The
story is told by Frederick Allen in his book “Secret Formula.” The
drink was named by Frank Robinson and he created its signature script
logo. [see May 8]
(www.sodamuseum.bigstep.com/generic.jhtml?pid=1)
1888 Mar 29, James E. Casey,
founder of the United Parcel Service, was born.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1891 Mar 29, Georges-Pierre Seurat
(31), French painter (Pointillism), died.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1892 Mar 29, Jozsef Mindszenty,
[Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal, was born.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1892 Mar 29, The Canadian Cricket
Ass'n. is established.
(CFA, '96, p.42)
1893 Mar 29, US Congressman James
Blount arrived in Hawaii to investigate the change in government. He
later reported to Congress that annexation to the US was being forced
and that the people of Hawaii supported their queen.
(ON, 11/02, p.7)
1902 Mar 29, William Walton,
composer (Troilus and Cressida, Wise Virgins), was born in England.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1903 Mar 29, A regular news
service began between New York and London on Marconi's wireless.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1905 Mar 29, Annunzio Mantovani,
orchestra leader (Mantovani), was born in Venice, Italy.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1906 Mar 29, E. Power Biggs,
organist, composer (CBS), was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, England.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1910 Mar 29, Helen Wells, author
of the Cherry Ames series, was born.
(HN, 3/29/01)
1912 Mar 29, The U.S. sent rifles
to the Mexican ambassador in Mexico City and readied U.S. ships to
transport troops to fight the rebels.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1912 Mar 29, Capt. Robert F.
Scott, British pole explorer, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole,
made a last entry in his diary: "the end cannot be far."
(MC, 3/29/02)
1913 Mar 29, The Reichstag
announced a raise in taxes in order to finance the new military budget.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1916 Mar 29, Eugene McCarthy, U.S.
senator and 1968 presidential candidate, was born in Watkins, Minn.
(HN, 3/29/01)(MC, 3/29/02)
1916 Mar 29, The Italians called
off the fifth attack on Isonzo.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1917 Mar 29, Man O'War, racehorse
(winner of 20 out of 21 races and $249,465), was born.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1918 Mar 29, Pearl Bailey
(d.1990), singer and actress, was born. "There is a way to look at the
past. Don’t hide from it. It will not catch you if you don’t repeat
it." "A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love
is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth
is ever so alive."
(AP, 6/24/97)(AP, 6/12/98)(HN, 3/29/01)
1922 Mar 29, The Lithuanian
government announced a land reform act enacted Feb 15.
(LC, 1998, p.12)(LHC, 3/29/03)
1924 Mar 29, Charles Villiers
Stanford (71), Irish composer, writer, died.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1932 Mar 29, A vaudeville comedian
made his radio debut, saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Jack Benny
talking. There will be a slight pause while you say, 'Who cares?"'
(AP, 3/29/97)
1935 Mar 29, French liner
Normandie began its maiden voyage.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1936 Mar 29, Judith Guest,
novelist (Ordinary People), was born.
(HN, 3/29/01)
1936 Mar 29, Richard Rodney
Bennett, composer, was born in Broadstairs, Kent, England.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1936 Mar 29, Nazi propaganda
claimed 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1936 Mar 29, Italy firebombed the
Ethiopian city of Harar.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1937 Mar 29, Billy Carter, brother
of Pres Carter, was born in Plains, Georgia.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1939 Mar 29, Clark Gable (38)
married Carole Lombard (29) in Arizona while filming "Gone With the
Wind." [see Mar 28]
(SFEM, 1/25/98, p.47)
1941 Mar 29, Terence Hill, actor
(Super Fuzz, They Call Me Trinity), was born in Venice, Italy.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1941 Mar 29, The British sank five
Italian warships off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean.
Captain Johnnie Walker was the Royal Navy's most effective weapon
against the German U-boat menace.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1942 Mar 29, British cruiser
Trinidad torpedoed itself in the Barents Sea.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1942 Mar 29, German submarine
U-585 sank.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1943 Mar 29, Eric Idle, comedian,
actor (Monty Python), was born in England.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1943 Mar 29, John Major, British
PM (1990-97), was born.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A20)(MC, 3/29/02)
1943 Mar 29, Vangelis,
[Papathanasiou], composer, keyboardist (Chariots of Fire), was born.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1943 Mar 29, World War II meat,
butter and cheese rationing began.
(AP, 3/29/97)
1951 Mar 29, Rodgers and
Hammerstein's musical "The King and I" starring Gertrude Lawrence and
Yul Brynner opened at the St James Theater on Broadway and ran for 1246
performances.
(HN, 3/29/01)(MC, 3/29/02)
1951 Mar 29, In the 23rd Academy
Awards "All About Eve" won for best picture; its director, Joseph L.
Mankiewicz, received his second set of consecutive Oscars for direction
and screenplay. He’d won the previous year for "A Letter to Three
Wives." Judy Holliday won best actress for "Born Yesterday" while Jose
Ferrer was honored as best actor for "Cyrano de Bergerac."
(AP, 3/29/01)(MC, 3/29/02)
1951 Mar 29, Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They were
executed in June 1953. Morton Sobell was convicted of conspiracy in the
case and served 18 ½ years in prison. Ronald Radosh and Joyce
Milton later wrote "The Rosenberg File."
(AP, 3/28/97)(SFEC, 8/16/98, p.D10)
1951 Mar 29, The Chinese rejected
MacArthur’s offer for a truce in Korea.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1952 Mar 29, Pres. Harry Truman
removed himself from the presidential race.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1952 Mar 29, Archbishop John J.
Mitty announced that Pope Pius XII had elevated Mission Dolores to the
status of a Minor Basilica, the 1st west of the Mississippi and the 4th
in the US.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.AG4)
1954 Mar 29, Karen Anne Quinlan,
famous comatose patient (right to die case), was born in NJ.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1957 Mar 29, Joyce A.L. Cary (68),
English writer (Horse's Mouth), died.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1958 Mar 29, Aerial circus star
Clyde Pangborn died. He and playboy Hugh Herndon, Jr. complete the
first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean in 1931.
(HN, 10/2/99)(ON, 1/03, p.10)
1959 Mar 29, "Some Like it Hot"
with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon premiered.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1961 Mar 29, The 23rd amendment,
allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote for president, was
ratified.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1961 Mar 29, In South Africa
Nelson Mandela was acquitted on a treason charge after a 4 year trial .
(MC, 3/29/02)
1962 Mar 29, Jack Paar hosted
NBC's "Tonight" show for the final time. He was succeeded by Johnny
Carson who stayed to 1992.
(SFEC, 2/23/96, z-1 p.2)(AP, 3/29/97)
1962 Mar 29, Cuba opened the trial
of the Bay of Pigs invaders.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1964 Mar 29, The U.S. planned to
add $50 million a year for aid to South Vietnam.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1966 Mar 29, Leonid Brezhnev
became First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. He denounced the
American policy in Vietnam and called it one of aggression.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1967 Mar 29, The first nationwide
strike in the 30-year history of the American Federation of Television
occurred and lasted for 13 days.
(www.aftra.org/aftra/history.htm)
1967 Mar 29, France launched the
Redoubtable, its first nuclear submarine. It did not enter operational
service until 1972, when it began its first patrol on 28 January.
(http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/France/FranceOrigin.html)
1968 Mar 29, In SF Linda Harmon
(14) was raped and stabbed to death while babysitting for a neighbor in
Visitacion Valley. In lat 2003 police matched DNA evidence to William
Speer, who was undergoing therapy for sexually violent tendencies at an
Arizona mental hospital.
(SFC, 11/4/05, p.B1)
1968 Mar 29, Students seized a
building at Maryland’s Bowie State College.
(www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/baseball/page1.html)
1971 Mar 29, Army Lt. William L.
Calley Jr. (b.1943) was convicted of murdering at least 22 Vietnamese
civilians in the March 16, 1968, My Lai massacre. Calley ended up
spending three years under house arrest.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Calley)
1971 Mar 29, A jury in Los Angeles
recommended the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female
followers for the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders. The sentences were later
commuted.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson)
1972 Mar 29, J. Arthur Rank
(b.1888), 1st Baron Rank, British industrialist and film producer, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Arthur_Rank)
1973 Mar 29, The last United
States troops left South Vietnam, ending America's direct military
involvement in the Vietnam War.
(AP, 3/29/97)
1974 Mar 29, Mariner 10 first flew
past Mercury.
(NH, 5/01, p.38)
1974 Mar 29, In Ohio 8 National
Guardsmen were indicted on charges stemming from the shooting deaths of
4 students at Kent State University. On Nov 8 the charges were
dismissed.
(AP, 3/29/07)
1975 Mar 29, Egyptian president
Anwar Sadat declared that he would reopen the Suez Canal on June 5,
1975.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1979 Mar 29, Larry Singleton was
convicted by a San Diego jury on multiple counts for the 1978 rape and
mutilation of Mary Vincent. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He
was paroled in 1987.
(SFC, 1/1/02, p.A13)
1979 Mar 29, Emmett Kelly
(b.1898), American circus clown (Weary Willy), died in Arizona.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Kelly)
1979 Mar 29, In China dissident
Wei Jingsheng (b.1950) was first arrested in the crackdown on the
Democracy Wall pro-democracy movement. In his most famous essay, The
Fifth Modernization, Wei argued that modernization was impossible in
China without necessary democratic reform. On December 13, 1995, Wei
Jingsheng (47) was sentenced to 14 years in prison and charged with
"conspiring to subvert the government." In 1997, after a total of 18
years in prison, Wei was taken from his cell and placed on a plane
bound for the United States as a bargain result between then US
President Clinton and the Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
(SFEC,11/16/97,
p.A2)(www.weijingsheng.org/wei/en.html)
1980 Mar 29, Annunzio Mantovani
(b.1905), Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), died at his home in
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantovani)
1981 Mar 29, "Woman of the Year"
opened at Palace Theater in NYC for 770 performances. John Kander
composed the music and Fred Ebb (d.2004) wrote the lyrics.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Year_(musical))(SFC,
9/13/04, p.B4)
1981 Mar 29, General Roberto
Eduardo Viola was sworn in as the President of Argentina.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1981 Mar 29, The first London 26.2
mile marathon was run with nearly 7,500 participants.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Marathon)
1982 Mar 29, In the 2nd annual
Golden Raspberry Awards “Mommie Dearest” won as the worst picture.
(http://razzies.com/asp/content/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=21)
1982 Mar 29, In the 54th Academy
Awards "Chariots of Fire," won for best picture. Henry Fonda and
Katherine Hepburn the best actor and best actress awards for their
roles in "On Golden Pond." Warren Beatty won best director for "Reds."
(http://tinyurl.com/2jsexb)(SFC, 12/14/99, p.D7)
1982 Mar 29, In New Orleans,
Michael Jordan’s 16-foot jump shot with 15 seconds remaining gave North
Carolina a thrilling 63-62 victory over Georgetown and the NCAA
basketball championship before 61,612 at the Superdome tonight. Six
players in that game: Floyd, Ewing, Anthony Jones, Michael Jordan,
James Worty and Sam Perkins, became NBA first-round draft choices.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_NCAA_Men's_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament)
1982 Mar 29, The Paris-Toulouse
express train was bombed. 5 people were killed and 15 injured. The
attack was attributed to Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez.
(SFC,12/11/97,
p.C2)(www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27801114.htm)
1982 Mar 29, Carl Orff (b.1895),
German composer (Carmina Burana), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Orff)
1984 Mar 29, The NFL Baltimore
Colts moved to Indianapolis.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_Colts)
1985 Mar 29, In Santiago, Chile,
police killed Rafael and Eduardo Vergara. The 2 young brothers, active
members of the often violent “Movement of the Revolutionary Left”
(MIR), were peppered with bullets by military police during an
anti-Pinochet protest in the low-income Villa Francia district. The
event became known as the “Day of the Young Combatants.”
(SFC, 3/31/08,
p.A3)(http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90852/6384027.html)
1986 Mar 29, A court in Rome
acquitted six men in a plot to kill the Pope.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1987 Mar 29, The N.C.A.A. Women's
Basketball Rules Committee adopted the 3-point field-goal shot from the
same 19-feet-9-inch distance the men used.
(http://tinyurl.com/mgtog)
1987 Mar 29, Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir was re-elected chairman of the right-wing Herut
Party, the largest party in the Likud bloc governing Israel as part of
a coalition.
(AP, 3/29/97)
1988 Mar 29, Two top US Justice
Department officials resigned over Attorney General Edwin Meese's legal
problems.
(AP, 3/29/98)
1988 Mar 29, Sen. Bob Dole ended
his presidential candidacy. Michael Dukakis won the Connecticut
Democratic primary.
(AP, 3/29/98)
1988 Mar 29, US leaders of the
Assemblies of God ordered the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart to stop preaching for
at least a year because of "moral failure," following his reported
relationship with a prostitute.
(AP, 3/29/98)
1989 Mar 29, In the 61st Academy
Awards the movie "Rain Man" won Academy Awards for best picture, best
director Barry Levinson and best actor Dustin Hoffman; Jodie Foster was
named best actress for "The Accused."
(AP, 3/29/99)
1989 Mar 29, In the 9th Golden
Raspberry Awards: Cocktail won.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Golden_Raspberry_Awards)
1989 Mar 29, I.M. Pei's glass
pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opened in Paris.
(SFC, 6/16/96, T-5)(http://tinyurl.com/emvfc)
1989 Mar 29, Michael Milken, junk
bond king, was indicted in NYC for racketeering.
(http://tinyurl.com/hf4fb)
1990 Mar 29, President Bush,
addressing the National Leadership Coalition on AIDS, declared his
administration "on a wartime footing" against the disease, and called
for compassion, not discrimination, toward those infected with the
virus.
(AP, 3/29/00)
1991 Mar 29, General H. Norman
Schwarzkopf publicly apologized to President Bush for questioning his
judgment about calling a cease-fire in the Gulf War.
(AP, 3/29/01)
1991 Mar 29, Political strategist
Lee Atwater (40), who’d helped propel President Bush to his 1988
election victory, died of complications resulting from a brain tumor.
(AP, 3/29/01)
1992 Mar 29, The film “Hudson
Hawk” won the 12th Golden Raspberry Award as worst picture.
(www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Razzie_Awards/1992)
1992 Mar 29, Democratic
presidential front-runner Bill Clinton acknowledged experimenting with
marijuana "a time or two" while attending Oxford University, adding, "I
didn't inhale and I didn't try it again."
(AP, 3/29/97)
1992 Mar 29, Earl Spencer (68),
father of Lady Diana, died.
(http://freespace.virgin.net/owston.tj/spencer.htm)
1992 Mar 29, Paul [G J von]
Henreid (84), Austrian actor (Laszlo-Casablanca), died.
(www.pgtw.bc.ca/histor3.htm)
1993 Mar 29, In the 65th Academy
Awards "Unforgiven" won the Academy Award for best picture as well as
best director for Clint Eastwood; Emma Thompson won best actress for
"Howards End" and Al Pacino won best actor for "Scent of a Woman."
(AP,
3/29/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/65th_Academy_Awards)
1994 Mar 29, Dallas Cowboys coach
Jimmy Johnson resigned, capping a longstanding feud with team owner
Jerry Jones.
(AP, 3/29/04)
1994 Mar 29, Mexico's ruling party
picked Ernesto Zedillo to be its new presidential candidate, replacing
the assassinated Luis Donaldo Colosio.
(AP, 3/29/99)
1994 Mar 29, Bill Travers (72),
British actor (Trio, Gorgo, Born Free), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Travers)
1995 Mar 29, The House of
Representatives rejected, 227-204, a constitutional amendment placing
term limits on lawmakers. The rejected proposal would have limited
terms to 12 years in the House and Senate.
(AP, 3/29/00)
1996 Mar 29 Congress passed, and
President Clinton quickly signed, a 12th stopgap spending bill to avert
a partial federal shutdown.
(AP, 3/28/97)
1996 Mar 29, The US and Mexico
unveiled a cross-border air pollution control zone to promote joint
efforts in parts of Texas, New Mexico and Ciudad Juarez.
(WSJ, 3/29/96, p.A-1)
1996 Mar 29, An earthquake in
central Ecuador killed 29 people.
(SFC, 4/6/96, p.A-13)
1997 Mar 29, According to Monica
Lewinsky she and Pres. Clinton had their last sexual encounter.
(SFC, 9/12/98, p.A13)
1997 Mar 29, Vice President Gore
concluded his tour of Asia, saying that talks in Beijing had created
"new momentum" in relations between the U.S. and China.
(AP, 3/29/98)
1997 Mar 29, In Jacksonville,
Fla., Philip N. Johnson staged a Loomis, Fargo & Co. armored car
robbery for $22 million. He was arrested Aug 30 at a border crossing in
Texas.
(SFEC, 8/31/97, p.A11)
1997 Mar 29, In France over 25,000
people demonstrated against the convention of the racist National
Front Party led by Jean-Pierre Le Pen.
(SFEC, 3/30/97, p.A18)
1997 Mar 29, Italian rescue
workers searched the waters for survivors of a collision of an Albanian
patrol boat packed with Albanians and an Italian Navy ship. Arguments
raged as to who was at fault and there were 4 confirmed deaths.
Albanian prime minister Bashkim Fino demanded an investigation. 87 were
later feared drowned.
(SFEC, 3/30/97, p.A18)(SFC, 4/1/97, p.A17)(WSJ,
4/1/97, p.A1)
1998 Mar 29, The Lady Vols of
Tennessee won a third straight NCAA basketball championship, defeating
Louisiana Tech.
(AP, 3/29/99)
1998 Mar 29, In Denver 4 men beat
a cabbie, Mostapha Maarouf of Morocco, to death as people watched from
their high-rise apartments. One person was arrested.
(SFC, 3/30/98, p.A4)
1998 Mar 29, In Minnesota twisters
from St. Peter to Comfrey damaged an estimated 819 homes and left 2
people dead.
(SFC, 3/31/98, p.A3)
1998 Mar 29, In Cambodia civilians
fled fighting between factions of the Khmer Rouge
(WSJ, 3/30/98, p.A1)
1998 Mar 29, In Palestine the body
of Mohiyedine Sharif, a master bomb-maker for Hamas, was found at the
scene of an exploded car in Ramallah. His body had bullet holes. Israel
denied involvement in the killing. Sharif was a member of the Izzedine
Qassam, a military wing of Hamas. Palestinian security officials later
assigned the murder to Adel Awadallah, a rival for leadership in Hamas.
(SFC, 4/2/98, p.A12)(SFC, 4/798, p.A12)
1998 Mar 29, In Peru an air force
plane evacuating people stranded by flooding crashed in Piura.
Twenty-two people were killed when a Russian-made Antonov military
plane crashed into a Peruvian shantytown outside the northern city of
Piura.
(SFC, 3/30/98, p.A10)(AP, 3/29/99)
1998 Mar 29, In Portugal the $1
billion, 10-mile Vasco da Gama bridge over the River Tagus opened in
time to bring traffic from Spain the Lisbon Expo.
(SFC, 3/30/98, p.A10)
1998 Mar 29, In Russia Andrei
Klimentyev, a controversial entrepreneur, won the mayoral election in
Nizhny Novgorod. The election was invalidated on Apr 1 and Klimentyev
was arrested on Apr 2 for instigating civil disobedience. He had been
convicted in 1997 of embezzling $2.5 million.
(SFC, 4/3/98, p.B5)
1998 Mar 29, In Somalia factional
fighting killed 13 people in Hobyo, 2 days before a national
reconciliation conference.
(WSJ, 3/30/98, p.A1)
1998 Mar 29, In the Ukraine
parliamentary elections gave the Communists about 121 of 450 seats.
(SFC, 4/1/98, p.A10)
1999 Mar 29, Connecticut beat
top-ranked Duke, 77-to-74, for its first NCAA basketball championship.
(AP, 3/29/00)
1999 Mar 29, It was reported that
the US government knowingly risked the lives of thousands of workers
over the last 50 years by allowing them to be exposed to dangerous
levels of beryllium, a metal critical to the military.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A6)
1999 Mar 29, The Dow Jones broke
the 10,000 level and closed at 10,006.
(SFC, 3/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 29, The Melissa computer
virus, first reported Mar 26, was spreading and infecting E-mail in
tens of thousands of computers. In Dec. David L. Smith, a New Jersey
programmer, pleaded guilty to creating the virus and spreading it
through a sex Web site. It was reported to have caused $80 million in
damage.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A3)(SFC, 12/10/99, p.B1)
1999 Mar 29, In Michigan 5 people
died in Osseo following an explosion and fire at the Independence
Professional Fireworks Co.
(SFC, 3/30/99, p.A2)
1999 Mar 29, Legendary jazz singer
Joe Williams died in Las Vegas at age 80.
(AP, 3/29/00)
1999 Mar 29, NATO airstrikes
against Yugoslavia continued for a sixth night.
(AP, 3/29/00)
1999 Mar 29, Albania and Macedonia
appealed for help as thousands of refugees fled Kosovo on the 6th day
of bombing. NATO said Serbs were targeting ethnic Albanian leadership
for executions and the US accused Milosevic of "crimes against
humanity."
(WSJ, 3/30/99, p.A1)(SFC, 3/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 29, In India at least 51
people were killed following a 6.8 earthquake in the Kumaon Hills in
Uttar Pradesh. The quake struck just after midnight and the death toll
rose to at least 87. The toll was raised to 110 at Chamoli on the
Alaknanda River.
(SFC, 3/29/99, p.A8)(WSJ, 3/30/99, p.A1)(SFC,
3/30/99, p.F2)(SFC, 3/31/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 29, In Mexico 2 of the
largest banks agreed to plead guilty to laundering millions of dollars
for the Cali and Juarez drug cartels. Bancomer will pay $9.9 million in
fines while Banca Serfin will pay $4.7 million.
(SFC, 3/30/99, p.F2)
1999 Mar 29, In Montenegro Pres.
Milo Djukanovic made a plea for an end to NATO attacks on Yugoslavia.
The country reported that over 30,000 refugees had taken asylum there.
(SFC, 3/30/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 29, Paraguay's ousted
president, Raul Cubas, was given asylum by Brazil.
(WSJ, 3/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 29, In Moscow the IMF
agreed in principle to a loan for Russia. The loan was estimated to be
about $4.8 billion.
(SFC, 3/30/99, p.F8)
1999 Mar 29, Rwanda began voting
in local elections. Candidates were not allowed to run as
representatives of any ethnic or political group due to continued
Hutu-Tutsi hostility.
(WSJ, 3/30/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 29, In Uganda officials
reported that the army had killed another 18 of the Rwandan Hutu rebels
who had murdered 8 foreign tourists.
(SFC, 3/30/99, p.F8)
2000 Mar 29, President Clinton
told a news conference he was appalled when he first learned his
campaign had taken illegal foreign donations in 1996 -- contributions
he called both wrong and unneeded.
(AP, 3/29/01)
2000 Mar 29, A federal judge ruled
that President Clinton "committed a criminal violation of the Privacy
Act" by releasing personal letters to undermine the credibility of
Kathleen Willey, one of his accusers.
(AP, 3/29/01)
2000 Mar 29, The US Supreme Court
affirmed cities’ power to ban nude dancing in a 6-3 decision.
(SFC, 3/30/00, p.A3)
2000 Mar 29, The Central
Conference of American Rabbis adopted a resolution stating "a Jewish
same gender couple is worthy of affirmation through appropriate Jewish
ritual."
(SFC, 3/30/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 29, In Chechnya rebels
ambushed Russian troops and left 4 dead and 18 wounded. 27 men were
missing.
(WSJ, 3/31/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 29, Iran joined the OPEC
oil increase to keep its market share.
(SFC, 3/30/00, p.A16)
2000 Mar 29, In Kenya at least 101
people were killed when a speeding bus collided with another bus in
Kericho. The death toll was reduced to 74.
(SFC, 3/30/00, p.A18)(SFC, 3/31/00, p.E4)
2000 Mar 29, In Taiwan Pres. elect
Chen Shui-bian appointed defense minister Tang Fei (68) of the
nationalist party as his Prime Minister.
(SFC, 3/30/00, p.A20)
2000 Mar 29, In Thailand Sanan
Kachornprasart (64) resigned as interior minister after the National
Counter-Corruption Commission charged that he had concealed his assets
in a fabricated million-dollar loan.
(SFC, 3/30/00, p.A18)y
2000 Mar 29, In Uganda the
doomsday sect body count reached 644.
(SFC, 3/30/00, p.A19)
2001 Mar 29, Pres. Bush met with
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who disagreed with Bush’s
opposition to the 1997 Kyoto global-warming accord. It was later
revealed that the 2 men agreed to withhold aid for Russia until
corruption ceased.
(SFC, 3/30/01, p.A9)(WSJ, 5/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 29, Pres. Bush urged
Israel to use restraint in military actions and instructed Sec. of
State Colin Powell to call Yasser Arafat with the message to stop
Palestinian violence.
(SFC, 3/30/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 29, James Kopp, the
fugitive wanted in the 1998 slaying of Dr. Barnett Slepian, a Buffalo,
N.Y., abortion provider, was captured in France. Kopp was convicted in
2003 of killing Slepian and is serving a sentence of 25 years to life.
(AP, 3/29/02)
2001 Mar 29, The landmark
Berkeley, Ca., UC Theater, built in 1917, was set to close after its
last show. A fire had gutted the building in the 1940s, and it was
rebuilt in a spartan motif. In 2009 promoters obtained permits and
slated to reopen the building in the Fall of 2010 as a nightclub.
(SFC, 3/27/01, p.A12)(SFC, 9/24/09, p.D1)
2001 Mar 29, In Colorado a
chartered jet from southern California crashed near Aspen’s Sardy Field
and all 18 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 3/30/01, p.A3)
2001 Mar 29, John Lewis, pianist
and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet, died in Manhattan at
age 80.
(SFC, 3/31/01, p.A21)
2001 Mar 29, An oil tanker
collided with a freighter in the Baltic Sea and some 550,000 gallons of
oil were spilled and drifted toward Denmark.
(SFC, 3/30/01, p.D4)
2001 Mar 29, In India a power
plant cooling tower collapsed and 6 workers were killed at Parvada.
(SFC, 3/30/01, p.A19)
2001 Mar 29, Macedonian forces
chased rebels into Kosovo and 3 people were killed from mortar fire in
Kosovo.
(SFC, 3/30/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 29, In East Timor Xanana
Gusmao said he would not compete in the nation’s 1st presidential
election. Gusmao quit the interim legislature yesterday.
(SFC, 3/30/01, p.A18)
2002 Mar 29, At Fort Irwin, Ca., a
mortar round exploded prematurely and 3 soldiers were killed.
(SFC, 3/30/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 29, France reported the
successful cloning of rabbits using genetic material from adult cells.
(SFC, 3/30/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 29, Israel declared
Yasser Arafat an "enemy" and sent troops and tanks to isolate him in
his Ramallah headquarters in Operation Defensive Shield. 5
Palestinians, possibly executed, and 2 Israelis were killed in the
takeover. In Jerusalem a suicide bomber, Ayat Akhras (18) killed
herself and 2 Israelis. In the Gaza Strip a Palestinian man stabbed to
death 2 elderly Israelis and was shot to death by soldiers.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/30/02, p.A1,11)(SSFC,
3/31/02, p.A18)(AP, 9/6/03)
2002 Mar 29, Iraq expressed
interest in resuming relations with Kuwait.
(SFC, 3/30/02, p.A11)
2002 Mar 29, It was reported that
Russia had announced plans to build a nuclear plant for North Korea.
(WSJ, 3/30/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 29, It was reported that
Thailand planned to market a drug combination of 3 AIDS drugs in one
cheap pill.
(WSJ, 3/29/02, p.B1)
2003 Mar 29, Michelle Kwan became
only the third American to win five World Figure Skating Championships,
after Dick Button and Carol Heiss.
(AP, 3/29/04)
2003 Mar 29, Pres. Bush sought to
marshal the nation's resolve to withstand more casualties, saying
further sacrifice must be expected.
(AP, 3/29/03)
2003 Mar 29, A rented Ford
Econoline 3-350 crashed on I-15 in southern California and 5 women
enroute to a retreat were killed. Families in 2004 sued Ford alleging
negligence.
(SFC, 8/4/04, p.B5)
2003 Mar 29, Two US special forces
soldiers were killed and another wounded in an ambush in southern
Afghanistan. Fighting there killed four Taliban with 6 captured.
(AP, 3/29/03)
2003 Mar 29, A gamma ray burst was
detected as a giant star exploded and collapsed into a black hole some
2 billion light years away in the direction of the constellation Leo.
(SFC, 4/28/03, A8)
2003 Mar 29, The government of
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, Bolivia's president, was on the verge of
collapse. His ratings were the lowest of any South American leader, and
he admitted coups were brewing beneath him.
(AP, 3/30/03)
2003 Mar 29, In El Salvador a
cargo truck carrying dozens of passengers went out of control and
flipped over, killing at least 12 people and injuring 42.
(AP, 3/30/03)
2003 Mar 29, In the 11th day of
Operation Iraqi Freedom a suicide bomber driving a taxi killed four
American soldiers at a checkpoint near Najaf, Iraq. US jets destroyed a
building in Basra where paramilitary fighters were meeting and 200 were
reported killed.
(AP, 3/29/03)(SSFC, 5/4/03, p.C3)
2003 Mar 29, A low-flying Iraqi
missile avoided the detection of US defense systems and landed just off
the coast of Kuwait City, shattering windows at the seaside Souq Sharq
shopping mall.
(AP, 3/29/03)(SFC, 3/29/03, p.W5)
2003 Mar 29, Israeli troops shot a
killed a 17-year-old Palestinian throwing stone at troops near Nablus.
(SSFC, 3/30/03, p.A9)
2003 Mar 29, In Mexico a small
government plane crashed in the mountains of southern Mexico, killing
all five people aboard. Passengers included Porfirio Encino Hernandez,
state sec. for Indian affairs; his son and brother; Berenice Lopez, the
daughter of former Gov. Javier Lopez; and pilot Guadalupe Gil.
(AP, 4/1/03)
2003 Mar 29, Nigeria police shot
and killed seven members of the Movement for the Actualization of the
Sovereign State of Biafra and arrested more than 20 to forestall a
rally where they planned to make a symbolic declaration of
independence. The leader of the failed Biafra state, Emeka Odumegwu
Ojukwu, a leading opposition politician, lost in the April, 2003,
presidential elections that were widely alleged to have been rigged.
(AP, 3/30/03)(AP, 3/23/05)
2003 Mar 29, In the Philippines
troops clashed with communist guerrillas in a hilly area near the
capital, and at least 24 were people killed.
(AP, 3/30/03)
2003 Mar 29, Italian Dr. Carlo
Urbani (46), a WHO expert on communicable diseases, died of SARS in
Thailand, where he was being treated after becoming infected while
working in Vietnam. Urbani was the 1st doctor to identify SARS.
(AP, 3/29/03)(SSFC, 3/30/03, p.A6)
2003 Mar 29, A Turkish man who had
hijacked a Turkish Airlines flight the day before was persuaded by
Turkey's prime minister to release his 204 hostages after the plane
landed in Athens, Greece.
(AP, 3/29/04)
2004 Mar 29, Pres. Bush hosted a
White House ceremony to welcome Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia,
Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia into the NATO alliance.
(WSJ, 3/30/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 29, Massachusetts
lawmakers approved a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay
marriage and legalize civil unions, sending the issue to the next
legislative session.
(AP, 3/29/05)
2004 Mar 29, The body of Eugen
Gorenman (26), immigrant Russian Jew, was found shot to death at Fort
Funston, SF, Ca. In 2009 3 women, teenagers at time, were sentenced to
prison terms of 8 to 21 years for the slaying.
(SFCM, 6/27/04, p.8)(SFC, 4/4/09, p.B3)
2004 Mar 29, Margaret McCord Nixon
(87), South-African-born author of "The Calling of Katie Makanya"
(1997), died in Venice, Ca.
(SFC, 4/13/04, p.B7)
2004 Mar 29, The island of
Dominica switched diplomatic relations from Taiwan to China, after the
communist state offered a $112 million aid package.
(AP, 3/29/04)
2004 Mar 29, Ireland outlawed
smoking in workplaces, imposing the strictest anti-tobacco measure ever
adopted by any country on earth.
(AP, 3/29/04)
2004 Mar 29, A Lithuanian court
found French rock star Bertrand Cantat (40) guilty of man-slaughter for
the 2003 beating death of his movie-star girlfriend, Marie Trintignant
(41), and sentenced him to 8 years in prison.
(AP, 3/29/04)
2004 Mar 29, In Mexico Pres. Fox
unveiled a sweeping revision of the legal system.
(WSJ, 3/30/04, p.A16)
2004 Mar 29, In a stinging rebuke,
Secretary-General Kofi Annan fired one top UN official and demoted
another for security failures leading to the Aug. 19 bombing of the
U.N.’s Baghdad headquarters that killed 22 people.
(AP, 3/29/05)
2004 Mar 29, In Uzbekistan at
least 19 people were killed in a wave of terrorist violence. [see Mar
28]
(AP, 3/29/05)
2005 Mar 29, New York’s top court
ruled that an out-of-state programmer must pay state taxes on his full
salary despite working mostly via computer.
(WSJ, 3/30/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 29, It was reported that
the Carlyle Group (b.1987) had become the 1st $10 billion entity in the
private equity industry. Its executives included a number of former,
highly placed, political figures.
(WSJ, 3/29/05, p.C1)
2005 Mar 29, As Terri Schiavo
entered her 12th full day without food or water, the Rev. Jesse Jackson
prayed with her parents and joined conservatives in calling for Florida
lawmakers to order her feeding tube reinserted.
(AP, 3/29/06)
2005 Mar 29, Mark Hurd, CEO of
NCR, was named as new CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
(AP, 3/29/05)(WSJ, 4/4/05, p.B1)
2005 Mar 29, Johnnie L. Cochran
Jr. (b.1937), lawyer, died in LA at age 67. He became a legal superstar
after helping clear O.J. Simpson during the 1995 sensational murder
trial in which he uttered the famous quote ''If it doesn't fit, you
must acquit.''
(AP, 3/29/05)
2005 Mar 29, It was reported that
China’s influence in Africa was expanding rapidly. Chinese projects
included the rebuilding of Nigeria’s railroad network; the paving of
roads in Rwanda; ownership of copper mines in Zambia; timer operations
in Equatorial Guinea; supermarket operations in Lesotho.
(WSJ, 3/29/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 29, In eastern China a
truck loaded with chlorine overturned on a highway after a tire burst,
spewing fumes that killed 27 people and left another 285 hospitalized.
(AP, 3/30/05)
2005 Mar 29, Colombian President
Alvaro Uribe sought international help to end 40 years of civil war in
his country, telling the leaders of Venezuela, Brazil and Spain that
the violence is too fierce to confront without their aid.
(AP, 3/29/05)
2005 Mar 29, A video surfaced on
the Internet showing three drivers who said they worked for a Jordanian
trucking company being shot by gunmen claiming to belong to a militant
Islamic group in Iraq.
(AP, 3/30/05)
2005 Mar 29, The UN Security
Council ordered the Sudanese government to inform the UN before sending
any more weapons to Darfur.
(Econ, 4/2/05, p.42)
2005 Mar 29, Syria promised the UN
that it will withdraw all troops from Lebanon before parliamentary
elections but didn't mention a pullout of its intelligence operatives
as demanded by the Security Council.
(AP, 3/29/05)
2005 Mar 29, In Venezuela a
crowded bus overturned on a highway and plunged 50 feet down a hill,
killing 25 people.
(AP, 3/29/05)
2005 Mar 29, In Yemen clashes
between the military and followers of a slain cleric stretched into a
second day of fighting, leaving eight Yemeni soldiers dead.
(AP, 3/29/05)
2006 Mar 29, Jack Abramoff, the US
lobbyist who spawned a congressional corruption scandal, drew a 6-year
prison term in a Florida fraud case.
(WSJ, 3/30/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 29, Henry Farrell, a
writer born as Charles Farrell Myers (1920), died in Los Angeles. His
melodramatic thrillers spurred a genre of horror movies that included
“Whatever Happened to Baby Jane” and Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte.”
(SFC, 4/6/06, p.B7)
2006 Mar 29, The first total
eclipse in years plunged Ghana into daytime darkness, a solar show
sweeping northeast from Brazil to Mongolia.
(AP, 3/29/06)
2006 Mar 29, Afghanistan's
parliament demanded that the government prevent a man who faced the
death penalty for abandoning Islam for Christianity from being able to
flee the country. Italy granted asylum to Abdul Rahman (41) and the
Foreign Ministry said he would arrive there "soon," maybe within the
day.
(AP, 3/29/06)
2006 Mar 29, In southern
Afghanistan militants attacked a coalition forces base, sparking a
battle that killed 32 suspected Taliban militants. Friendly fire was
later suspected in the deaths of one American and one Canadian soldier.
(AP, 3/29/06)(WSJ, 4/5/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 29, British lawmakers
approved a measure requiring Britons applying for passports to get an
identity card or be entered into a computer database, paving the way
for the country's first national ID since World War II.
(AP, 3/29/06)
2006 Mar 29, Cambodia's PM Hun Sen
said that Yash Ghai, a UN human rights representative, was no longer
welcome in the Southeast Asian nation after the envoy criticized the
government's crackdown on dissent.
(AP, 3/29/06)
2006 Mar 29, State media reported
that China has arrested 76 officials and recovered about $510 million
in misused funds following a national audit.
(AP, 3/29/06)
2006 Mar 29, A group of 27 Danish
Muslim organizations have filed a defamation lawsuit against the
newspaper that first published the caricatures of Islam's Prophet
Muhammad.
(AP, 3/30/06)
2006 Mar 29, In Germany factory
workers at Ford, Infineon, DaimlerChrysler and other companies in
Germany temporarily walked off their jobs as part of a series of
warning strikes to put pressure on employers over demands for higher
wages.
(AP, 3/29/06)
2006 Mar 29, Gunmen lined up 14
employees working at an electronics trading company in Baghdad and shot
them all, killing eight and wounding six.
(AP, 3/29/06)
2006 Mar 29, After declaring
victory in Israel's elections, acting PM Ehud Olmert's Kadima Party
said it would quickly form a broad ruling coalition that will carry out
its plan to pull out of much of the West Bank and draw Israel's borders
by 2010.
(AP, 3/29/06)
206 Mar 29, Former Liberian
President Charles Taylor, accused of war crimes, was flown to Sierra
Leone after he was captured in northern Nigeria.
(AP, 3/29/07)
2006 Mar 30, The Mexican Senate
approved a broadcasting law that passes the power to license and
regulate broadcasting to the telecommunications regulator.
(Econ, 4/8/06, p.40)
2006 Mar 29, Palestine’s Hamas
party formally took power, and the newly installed prime minister
pledged to cooperate with President Mahmoud Abbas, head of the defeated
Fatah party. The Bush administration and Canada cut all official ties
as the new government was sworn in.
(AP, 3/29/06)(SFC, 3/30/06, p.A12)
2006 Mar 29, The Saudi Press
Agency reported that Saudi authorities had arrested 40 suspected
members of al-Qaida, including some allegedly involved in last month's
attempted bombing of a key oil complex, and seized a large cache of
weapons and explosives.
(AP, 3/29/06)
2006 Mar 29, Serbs in northern
Kosovo warned the UN that the province would split in two if the
Albanian majority clinches independence in talks this year.
(Reuters, 3/29/06)
2006 Mar 29, Some 20 Filipino
seamen were seized after their oil tanker, the United Arab
Emirates-registered MT LIN1, offloaded its cargo at a southern Somali
port. The men were released in July 15 following negotiations.
(AP, 7/16/06)
2006 Mar 29, In South Africa a
fire swept through a downtown Johannesburg building, killing 12 people
and injuring 33 others trapped inside by locked security gates and
belongings piled in passageways.
(AP, 3/29/06)
2006 Mar 29, In Thailand tens of
thousands of protesters seeking the ouster of PM Thaksin Shinawatra
descended on Bangkok's busiest shopping district, disrupting business
and traffic in the heart of the capital.
(AP, 3/29/06)
2006 Mar 29, In Thailand 7
decomposed bodies found in a jungle near the border with Myanmar. The
remains of four Hmong Americans are believed to be among the dead.
Eight men, including four Hmong with US citizenship, were reported
missing March 16.
(AP, 3/29/06)
2006 Mar 29, In southeastern
Turkey riot police fired water cannons and used pepper spray to
disperse stone-throwing Kurdish rioters in a second day of violence
that an official said left at least three people dead and 250 injured.
(AP, 3/29/06)
2006 Mar 29, The UN Security
Council demanded that Iran suspend uranium enrichment, the first time
the body directly urged Tehran to clear up suspicions that it was
seeking nuclear weapons.
(AP, 3/29/07)
2006 Mar 29, In Venezuela the body
of Filippo Sindoni (74), a prominent businessman who owned a TV
station, newspaper and pasta company, was found a day after he was
abducted by men wearing police uniforms.
(AP, 3/30/06)
2006 Mar 29, In Vietnam activists
and Vietnam War veterans wrapped up a global conference on Agent Orange
with a plea to the US government and chemical companies to take
responsibility for health problems linked to the wartime defoliant.
(AP, 3/29/06)
2007 Mar 29, A defiant,
Democratic-controlled Senate approved legislation calling for the
withdrawal of US combat troops from Iraq within a year.
(AP, 3/29/08)
2007 Mar 29, Kyle Sampson, a
former senior aide to US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, directly
implicated him in a scandal over the sacking of eight federal
prosecutors, saying he had approved the dismissals.
(AFP, 3/30/07)
2007 Mar 29, West Virginia beat
Clemson, 78-73, for its first NIT title in 65 years.
(AP, 3/29/08)
2007 Mar 29, A spring storm in the
US spawned some 65 tornadoes from South Dakota to Texas leaving 4
people dead.
(SFC, 3/30/07, p.A7)
2007 Mar 29, Johnny Castaneda of
Richmond, Ca., a rising rapper and protégé of Mac Dre,
died 6 hours after being found with gunshot wounds in a Vallejo parking
lot.
(SSFC, 4/1/07, p.D1)
2007 Mar 29, A NATO soldier was
killed and three wounded during an operation in eastern Afghanistan.
Suspected Taliban militants attacked a checkpoint manned by Afghan
troops, leaving eight militants and five Afghan troops dead.
(AP, 3/30/07)(AP, 3/31/07)
2007 Mar 29, Brazil's government
said it will provide free Internet access to native Indian tribes in
the Amazon in an effort to help protect the world's biggest rain
forest. The environment and communications ministers signed an
agreement with the Forest People's Network to provide an Internet
signal by satellite to 150 communities.
(AP, 3/30/07)
2007 Mar 29, Britain’s PM Tony
Blair announced the creation of a new national security department to
fight terrorism, as part of a radical overhaul of the 225-year-old Home
Office.
(AP, 3/29/07)(Econ, 3/31/07, p.66)
2007 Mar 29, Britain took its
escalating crisis with Iran over 15 captured sailors to the UN Security
Council, as Tehran said it would not release the only woman among the
detainees.
(AP, 3/29/07)
2007 Mar 29, Fisheries Minister
Loyola Hearn said Canada will cut back the number of harp seals that
hunters can kill this year to 270,000 from 335,000 in 2006 because of
bad ice conditions off its East Coast.
(AP, 3/29/07)
2007 Mar 29, Robert Marshall
Vignola (50) of Hamden, Conn., an American entrepreneur who introduced
foreign men to "young, sexy, exotic and beautiful Latin Women" via the
Internet, was killed in the western city of Cali by gunmen on a
motorcycle.
(AP, 4/1/07)
2007 Mar 29, India's Supreme Court
suspended a government program to reserve spots for lower-caste
students at the country's top medical, engineering and professional
schools.
(AP, 3/29/07)
2007 Mar 29, Indonesia reopened
its border with East Timor because the fugitive rebel who caused its
closure is no longer considered a threat.
(AP, 3/29/07)
2007 Mar 29, US Ambassador Ryan
Crocker was sworn in as the new top US envoy to Iraq, saying he was
taking over the "most critical foreign policy mission" facing his
country. Iraq's government admitted that police were behind the
vengeful slaughter of at least 70 Sunni Arabs in Tal Afar. 2 suicide
attackers wearing explosives blew themselves up in the Shalal market,
which was crowded with shoppers seeking provisions on the eve of the
Muslim day of rest and prayer. At least 82 people were killed and 102
were wounded. At least 181 people were killed or found dead as Sunni
insurgents apparently stepped up their campaign of bombings to derail
the seven-week-old security sweep in Baghdad. A US soldier was killed
and another was wounded during a patrol in southern Baghdad.
(AFP, 3/29/07)(AP, 3/30/07)
2007 Mar 29, In Tokyo the director
of a research institute said Japanese scientists have developed an oral
vaccine for Alzheimer's disease that has proven effective and safe in
mice.
(Reuters, 3/29/07)
2007 Mar 29, In northern Mexico
gunmen killed two police officers and six other people in less than 48
hours, the latest victims in a wave of drug-related violence.
(AP, 3/30/07)
2007 Mar 29, Northern Ireland's
largest paramilitary group ousted one of its commanders in what it
called an effort to crack down on criminal rackets. The Ulster Defense
Association, an outlawed Protestant organization, removed Gary Fisher,
a so-called "brigadier" of an area that includes predominantly
Protestant northern suburbs of Belfast.
(AP, 3/30/07)
2007 Mar 29, In Pakistan a woman
kidnapped by female seminary students and accused of running a brothel
was freed after a hard-line cleric forced her to repent in public. A
suicide bomber blew himself up among troops resting near an army base
in Kharian, killing a soldier.
(AP, 3/29/07)(AFP, 3/29/07)
2007 Mar 29, In northern New
Zealand buildings were washed away, homes flooded and scores of buses
and cars trapped by raging flood waters after the equivalent of three
months of rainfall poured down in just 36 hours.
(AP, 3/29/07)
2007 Mar 29, Arab leaders at their
summit in Riyadh agreed on a call for Israel to accept their
land-for-peace offer and open direct negotiations with the Arabs.
Unlike past summits that at times saw overt feuds break out, the
gathering of Arab kings, emirs and presidents showed unusual public
unity as it revived the peace offer, which they first made in 2002 only
to meet rejection from Israel.
(AP, 3/29/07)
2007 Mar 29, Somali troops and
their Ethiopian allies pounded insurgent positions in Mogadishu with
bombs and tank shells, sending residents fleeing a surge in fighting
that killed over 30 people including 7 Ethiopian soldiers.
(AP, 3/29/07)(SFC, 3/30/07, p.A20)
2007 Mar 29, A Swiss man was
jailed for 10 years for insulting Thailand's revered king by
vandalizing his portraits during a drunken spree.
(AP, 3/29/07)
2007 Mar 29, In Tanzania African
leaders rallied around President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, ignoring
calls for tougher action against him and suggesting dialogue as the
solution to his country's deepening political crisis.
(Reuters, 3/29/07)
2008 Mar 29, Afghan, US and
Pakistani officers opened the first of six joint military intelligence
centers along the Afghan-Pakistan border, an effort to cut down on
militants' movement in a region of rising terrorist activity.
(AP, 3/29/08)
2008 Mar 29, A police headquarters
building in Angola's capital collapsed and at least 24 people were
killed.
(AP, 3/31/08)
2008 Mar 29, Sydney's iconic Opera
House and Harbor Bridge went dark as the world's first major city
turned off its lights for this year's Earth Hour, a global campaign to
raise awareness of climate change.
(AP, 3/29/08)
2008 March 29, Azerbaijan customs
halted a shipment of Russian equipment for Iran’s first nuclear power
plant. The equipment was released May 1.
(WSJ, 5/2/08, p.A8)
2008 Mar 29, In Brazil Isabella
Nardoni (5) died after falling from her father's sixth-floor Sao Paulo
apartment. On April 18 Alexandre Nardoni (29) and his wife, Anna
Carolina Jatoba (24), the father and stepmother of the 5-year-old girl,
were arrested for allegedly throwing the girl from their apartment
window.
(AP, 4/19/08)
2008 Mar 29, British Airways said
that it was canceling more flights to and from London Heathrow
airport's new Terminal 5 for a third day running because of logistical
problems.
(AFP, 3/29/08)
2008 Mar 29, Angus Fairhurst
(b.1966), one of the group of "Young British Artists" who stormed the
international art scene in the 1990s, died of suicide during a walk in
Scotland.
(AP, 4/1/08)
2008 Mar 29, Three seal hunters
died after a fishing vessel capsized in the icy waters of the Gulf of
St. Lawrence, marking the first accident of Canada's 2008 seal hunt
season.
(Reuters, 3/29/08)
2008 Mar 29, Al-Sadr called on his
followers to defy government orders to surrender their weapons, saying
arms of the Mahdi Army should only be turned over to a national
leadership "that can get the occupier," meaning the Americans their
coalition allies, out of Iraq. Iraq's Health Ministry reported at least
75 civilians have been killed and at least 500 others injured in a week
of clashes and airstrikes in Sadr City and other eastern Baghdad
neighborhoods. US jets widened the bombing of Basra, dropping two
precision-guided bombs on a suspected militia stronghold north of the
city. Iraqi police said a US warplane strafed a house and killed eight
civilians, including two women and one child. Mortars landed in Shiite
areas of eastern Baghdad, killing at least one person and injuring 12.
American troops and Iraqis unearthed 14 significantly decomposed bodies
in a mass grave northeast of Baghdad.
(AP, 3/29/08)(AP, 3/30/08)
2008 Mar 29, In Kathmandu, Nepal,
around 80 Tibetan protesters shouting "stop the killing in Tibet" were
hauled away in police vehicles and detained after demonstrating outside
the Chinese embassy.
(AP, 3/29/08)
2008 Mar 29, In southwestern
Nigeria 5 employees of Express Oil were seized by angry youths in Ondo
state over the company's failure to pay royalties for its operations in
the area.
(AFP, 3/31/08)
2008 Mar 29, In Somalia at least
10 people were killed in Mogadishu after government troops shelled a
market area known to be an insurgent hideout.
(SSFC, 3/30/08, p.A2)
2008 Mar 29, An Arab League summit
in Damascus, where Syrian President Bashar Assad questioned how long
Arab nations can keep offering Israel a land-for-peace proposal.
Islamic and Arab leaders denounced a Dutch film that portrays Islam as
a ticking time bomb aimed at the West, demanding international laws to
prevent insults to religions.
(AP, 3/29/08)(AP, 3/30/08)
2008 Mar 29, Zimbabweans lined up
for hours to vote in elections that present President Robert Mugabe
with his toughest political challenge in 28 years in power.
(AP, 3/29/08)
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