March 29

• March 29, 1461
  Edward IV secures his claim to the English throne in defeating Henry VI's Lancastrians at the battle of Towton in which about 28,000 are killed
• March 29, 1638
  The first permanent white settlement is established in Delaware by Swedish Lutherans who build the first log cabins in America
• March 29, 1673
  The English Parliament pass the Test Act, which excludes Roman Catholics from public functions
• March 29, 1792
  King Gustav III King of Sweden, dies of wounds from assassination attempt, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden succeeds
• March 29, 1849
  Britain formally annexes Punjab, the territories of modern-day eastern Pakistan and northern western India, after Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, signs away all claims to the rule of the Punjab
• March 29, 1873
  Puerto Rican government decrees the freedom of about 29,000 slaves and abolishes the slavery
• March 29, 1879
  Some 2,000 British and Colonial troops of the 90th Light Infantry Regiment under the command of Colonel Henry Evelyn Wood repulse a major attack by 20,000 Zulu tribesmen at Kambula, Zululand, which becomes the turning point of the Anglo-Zulu War
• March 29, 1912
  Captain Robert Scott, blizzard-bound in a tent 18 km from the South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
• March 29, 1959
  Some Like It Hot, an American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, is released
• March 29, 1961
  After a 4.5-year trial, Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge
• March 29, 1973
  The last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam
• March 29, 1974
  First close-up images of Mercury are taken by American robotic space probe Mariner 10
• March 29, 1976
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a drama film based on the novel by Ken Kesey, wins all five major Academy Awards, and along with five Golden Globe Awards, becomes the first to do this
• March 29, 1989
  I. M. Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris, France
• March 29, 2004
  The largest expansion of North Atlantic Treaty Organization to date takes place, allowing former Eastern Bloc countries Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia into the organization
• March 29, 2010
  Two female suicide bombers kill at least 41 people on Moscow metro trains, injuring 88 others, during the attack quickly blamed on the North Caucasus