On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on March 29:
1561 Santorio Sanctorius Trieste Italy, physician/burned at stake/heretic
1602 John Lightfoot English theologist/literary (Horae Hebraicae)
1790 John Tyler Charles County VA, (D/W) 10th President (1841-1845)
1813 John Letcher Governor (Confederacy), died in 1884
1816 James Gallant Spears Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
1819 Edwin Drake drilled 1st productive US oil well
1819 Isaac Mayer Wise rabbi, founded American Hebrew Congregations
1821 Joshua Thomas Owen Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1829 Ritta & Christina Siamese twins, in Sardinia
1829 Robert Emmet Rodes Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1867 Cy [Denton True] Young Gilmore OH, winningest pitcher (511 wins, 1890-1911)
1875 Lou Henry Hoover 1st lady-Herbert Hoover (1929-33)
1875 Paul Rubens composer
1883 Donald Dexter Van Slyke US chemist (Micromanometric analysis)
1888 James E Casey founder (United Parcel Service)
1889 Warner Baxter Columbus OH, actor (In Old Arizona, Cisco Kid)
1892 József Mindszenty [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal
1905 Annunzio Mantovani Venice Italy, orchestra leader (Mantovani)
1908 Dennis O'Keefe Fort Madison IA, actor/director (T-Men, Fighting Seabees)
1911 Philip Ahn Los Angeles CA, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu)
1916 Eugene J McCarthy Watkins MN, (Senator-Democrat-MN, Presidential candidate 1968)
1917 Man O'War racehorse (winner of 20 out of 21 races & $249,465)
1918 Pearl Bailey Newport News VA, singer (Hello Dolly)
1918 Sam Walton billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart)
1927 John McLaughlin TV commentator (McLaughlin Group)
1937 Billy Carter Plains GA, brother of President Carter
1939 Nancy Kwan Hong Kong, actress (Flower Drum Song, Night Creature)
1941 Terence Hill Venice Italy, actor (Super Fuzz, They Call Me Trinity)
1943 Eric Idle South Shields Durham England, comedian/actor (Monty Python)
1943 John Major British Prime Minister (C, 1990-97)
1943 Vangelis [Evangelos Papathanassiou] Valos Greece, composer/keyboardist (Chariots of Fire)
1944 Denny McLain Detroit Tiger pitcher (1968 American League MVP/Cy Young/31 wins)
1945 Walt "Clyde" Frazier NBA guard (New York Knicks)
1947 Aleksandr Stepenovich Viktorenko cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3, 8, 14, 20)
1954 Karen Anne Quinlan Scranton PA, famous comatose patient (right to die case)
1955 Earl Campbell NFL running back (Houston, New Orleans, 1977 Heisman)
1956 Kurt Thomas US, gymnast (Olympics), actor? (Gymkata)
1959 Marina Sirtis London, actress (Deanna Troi-Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1964 Elle Macpherson Sydney Australia, model (Sports Illustrated 1986, 87, 88)/actress(?) (Sirens)
2334 Beverly Crusher Copernicus Luna, doctor-Star Trek Next Generation
Deaths which occurred on March 29:
1058 Stephen IX [Frederik van Lotharingen], 1st Belgian Pope (1057-58), dies
1546 Cardinal Beaton English archbishop of St Andrews, murdered
1745 Robert Walpole 1st British premier (1722-42), dies at 68
1788 Charles Wesley hymn writer, dies
1792 King Gustav III King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of wounds
1848 John Jacob Astor chartered American Fur Company, dies at 84
1912 Robert F Scott British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies
1959 Barthelemy Boganda Central African Republic's 1st President, dies
1966 Harry Daugherty trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers), dies at 50
1980 [Annunzio Paolo] Mantovani orchestra leader, dies at 74
1981 Eric Williams Prime Minister (Trinidad & Tobago), dies at 79
1983 Richard O'Brien actor (Rocky Horror Show), dies of cancer at 65
1990 Germaine Montenesdro 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer, shot dead
1991 Lee Atwater political strategist (R), dies of brain tumor at 40
2001 John Lewis, pianist and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet, died in Manhattan at age 80
2003 Italian Dr. Carlo Urbani (46), a WHO expert on communicable diseases, died of SARS in Thailand
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
29-Mar-2003 6 | US: 6 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Staff Sergeant James Wilford Cawley Not reported Hostile - vehicle accident
US Private 1st Class Michael Russell Creighton-Weldon Najaf Hostile - hostile fire - suicide bomber
US Corporal Michael Edward Curtin Najaf Hostile - hostile fire - suicide bomber
US Private 1st Class Diego Fernando Rincon Najaf Hostile - hostile fire - suicide bomber
US Sergeant Eugene Williams Najaf Hostile - hostile fire - suicide bomber
US Lance Corporal William Wayne White South-central part Non-hostile - vehicle accident
29-Mar-2004 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Sean M. Schneider Al Habbaniyah (near) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Specialist Jeremiah J. Holmes Ramadi Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Afghanistan
03/29/03 Frazier, Jacob L. Staff Sergeant 24 Air National Guard 169th Air Spt., 182nd Airlift Wing, Illinois ANG Hostile fire - ambush Geresk, Afghanistan St. Charles Illinois
03/29/03 Morales, Orlando Sergeant 33 Army A Co., 2nd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group Hostile fire - ambush Geresk, Afghanistan Manati Puerto Rico
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
Designed and maintained by Michael White
On this day...
0502 Bourgundy King Gundobar delegates royal power
1461 Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)
1638 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
1673 English King Charles II accepts Test Act: Roman Catholic excluded of public functions
1795 Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
1798 Republic of Switzerland forms
1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend AL: Andrew Jackson beats Creek-Indians
1827 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
1847 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico
1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1849 Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India
1852 Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a day
1864 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia AR
1865 Appomattox campaign, Virginia, 7582 killed
1865 Battle of Quaker Road, Virginia
1867 British North America Act (Canadian constitution) is passed
1867 Congress approves Lincoln Memorial
1871 Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria in London
1882 Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men
1886 Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Cola (with cocaine)
1897 Japan adopts Gold Standard
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"
1927 Henry O D Segrave races his Sunbeam to a record 203.79 mph at Daytona; 1st auto to exceed 200 mph (322 kph)
1928 Yeshiva College (now University) chartered (New York NY)
1932 Jack Benny debuts on radio
1936 10,000 watch the 200" mirror blank passing through Indianapolis
1936 Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
1941 WPAT radio in New Jersey begins broadcasting (country music format)
1943 Meat, butter & cheese rationed in US during WWII (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's)
1949 Turkey recognizes Israel
1951 "King & I" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1246 performances
1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage
1959 "Some Like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe & Jack Lemmon premieres
1961 23rd Amendment is ratified, allows Washington DC residents to vote for President
1961 After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge
1962 Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight Show"
1963 Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone"
1964 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)
1966 Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1969 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines
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 Jury in Los Angeles recommendes the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders.
1973 Last US troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after Tonkin Gulf Resolution
1974 Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
1976 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
1981 Tiina Lehtola ski jumps female record 110 meter
1985 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist
1986 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
1987 Wrestlemania III-93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant
1987 Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party
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 takes suborbital test flight (New Mexico)
1989 I M Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris France
1989 Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in New York for racketeering
1990 Houston's Akeen Olajuwan scores the 3rd NBA quadruple double 18 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists & 11 blocks vs Milwaukee
1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 2nd victim, Germaine Montenesdro
1994 Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys
1996 Cleveland Browns choose new name, Baltimore Ravens
1998 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.
2000 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. (Translation: DAMN! We got caught.)
2000 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.
2001 James Kopp, the fugitive wanted in the 1998 slaying of Dr. Barnett Slepian, a Buffalo, N.Y., abortion provider, was captured in France
2003 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.
2003 Two US special forces soldiers were killed and another wounded in an ambush in southern Afghanistan. Fighting there killed four Taliban with 6 captured.
2004 Ireland outlaws smoking in workplaces, imposing the strictest anti-tobacco measure ever adopted by any country on earth
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Central African Republic : Death of President Boganda Day (1959)
Delaware : Delaware Swedish Colonial Day (1638)
Madagascar : Commemoration Day/Memorial Day (1947)
Taiwan : Youth Day/Martyr's Day
Vietnam : Veterans' Day (1973)
US : Know Your Stockbroker Day
US : Smoke and Mirrors Day
Herb Month in Missouri
Religious Observances
Lutheran : Commemoration of Hans Hauge, renewer of the Church
Anglican : Commemoration of John Keble, priest
Religious History
1523 German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'There has never been a great revelation of God's Word unless God has first prepared the way by the rise and the flourishing of languages and learning, as though these were forerunners, a sort of John the Baptist.'
1638 The first Swedish colonists in America established a Lutheran settlement at Fort Christiana in the Colony of Delaware.
1832 The Kentucky Baptist Convention was organized in Frankfort with delegates representing nine congregations within the state.
1847 Birth of Winfield Scott Weeden, American sacred chorister and hymnwriter. During his life he led music and singing schools for the YMCA and Christian Endeavor. Of his several musical compositions, Weeden is best remembered today for the hymn, "I Surrender All."
1882 The Knights of Columbus, founded by Father Michael J. McGivney, was chartered by the General Assembly of Connecticut. Established as a lay fraternal society, the K of C encourages benevolence, patriotism and racial tolerance among its members.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls."
