What are the important events that happened on March 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 29: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 29 is the 88^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 277 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 16, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,053,440 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘octacontaoctagon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 325 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,481 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 29 Historical Events

• 1632 –
  Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
• 1638 –
  Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.
• 1941 –
  World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
• 1945 –
  World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
• 1971 –
  My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
• 1982 –
  The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
• 1993 –
  Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
• 1999 –
  The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the internet boom.
• 2002 –
  In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
• 2008 –
  Thirty-five countries and over 370 cities join Earth Hour for the first time.

Who were born on March 29?

• 1824 –
  Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)
• 1874 –
  Lou Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
• 1917 –
  Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1947)
• 1939 –
  Terence Hill, Italian actor
• 1941 –
  Eden Kane, British singer
• 1948 –
  Bud Cort, American actor
• 1949 –
  Dave Greenfield, English Keyboardist of The Stranglers
• 1954 –
  Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985)
• 1971 –
  Lara Logan, South-African journalist and reporter
• 1972 –
  Rui Costa, Portugal footballer

Who died on March 29?

• 1058 –
  Pope Stephen IX (b. c. 1020)
• 1683 –
  Yaoya Oshichi, young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667)
• 1800 –
  Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (b. 1714)
• 1829 –
  Cornelio Saavedra, Argentine head of state (b. 1759)
• 1877 –
  Inazuma Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 7th Yokozuna (b. 1802)
• 1906 –
  Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)
• 1971 –
  Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1886)
• 1982 –
  Nathan Twining, USAF general (b. 1897)
• 1991 –
  Lee Atwater, American political consultant (b. 1951)
• 2011 –
  Ângelo de Sousa, Portuguese painter and sculptor (b. 1938)