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March 29 is the 88th day of the year (89th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 277 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 1430 ...
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International relations 2014 Crimean crisis: Sergey Lavrov, the Foreign Minister of Russia, says that Russia has no intention of invading Ukraine. (Reuters) Law and crime The first same-sex marriages take place in the United Kingdom after they were given the legal authority to proceed in England and Wales from midnight UTC. (BBC News) Politics and elections Voters in Slovakia go to the polls ...
Members of the Tanzanian Red Cross removing a victim of the 2013 Dar es Salaam building collapse from the rubble on 29 March. During this accident, in which a 16-storey residential tower collapsed onto a nearby mosque, more than sixty victims were caught inside the rubble; thirty-six, including five children, died.
March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic; Martyrs' Day in Madagascar Memorial for the Battle of Towton 1461 – During the Wars of the Roses , Yorkist troops defeated Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Towton (memorial pictured) in Yorkshire , England, the largest and bloodiest battle fought in England.
March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic ; Martyrs' Day in Madagascar Vesta 1430 – After an eight-year siege , the Ottoman Empire captured the city of Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice .
March 29: Earth Hour (20:30 local time in various areas, 2014); Boganda Day in the Central African Republic; Martyrs' Day in Madagascar 1461 – Yorkist troops defeated Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Towton in Yorkshire , England, the largest battle in the Wars of the Roses up until that time with approximately 20,000 casualties.
Lou Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 – January 7, 1944) was the first lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933 as the wife of President Herbert Hoover.She was active in community groups, including the Girl Scouts of the USA, which she led from 1922 to 1925 and from 1935 to 1937.