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M1911 Pistol
Terracotta Army
Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers
Grand opening of the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall
White Rose of York
Memorial for the Battle of Towton
Mariner 10
Viking siege of Paris
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1806 – U.S. president Thomas Jefferson authorized the construction of the Cumberland Road, one of the first major improved highways in the United States that was built by the federal government. | refimprove, expansion |
| 1809 – At the Diet of Porvoo, the Four Estates of Finland pledged allegiance to Tsar Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden. | refimprove |
| 1831 – Bosniak general Husein Gradaščević began an uprising against Sultan Mahmud II and the Ottoman Empire. | Gradaščević and Bosnian uprising both refimprove |
| 1849 – The United Kingdom annexed the Punjab region. | date not in article |
| 1871 – The Royal Albert Hall (pictured) in Albertopolis, London, was officially opened by Queen Victoria. | tagged for recentism and citations needed |
| 1911 – The M1911 pistol, developed by American firearms designer John Browning, became the standard-issue sidearm in the United States Army. | too many (>20) {cn} tags |
| 1945 – World War II: The German 4th Army was almost completely destroyed by the Soviet Red Army at the Heiligenbeil Pocket in East Prussia. | unreferenced section |
| 1946 – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, was founded. | date not in article |
| 1973 – Vietnam War: The United States ended Operation Barrel Roll, a covert bombing campaign in Laos to help stem an increasing tide of People's Army of Vietnam and Pathet Lao offensives. | refimprove section |
| Sam Loxton |b|1921| | inappropriate tone |
| Haane Manahi |d|1986| | TFA for 2021-02-01 |
Eligible
- 845 – Viking expansion: Viking raiders, possibly led by the legendary Ragnar Lodbrok, plundered and occupied Paris, holding the city for a large ransom.
- 1461 – During the Wars of the Roses, Yorkist troops defeated Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Towton in Yorkshire, England, the largest and bloodiest land battle fought in England.
- 1638 – Swedish settlers founded New Sweden near Delaware Bay, the first Swedish colony in America.
- 1800 – William Matthews was ordained as the first British America-born Catholic priest.
- 1865 – American Civil War: The Appomattox campaign opened with the Battle of Lewis's Farm, in which the Confederate States Army was forced into a series of retreats that would culminate in their surrender.
- 1882 – The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, was founded by Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
- 1941 – The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement to define technical standards for AM band radio stations came into effect.
- 1942 – Second World War: The British Royal Air Force completed a bombing raid on Lübeck, the first major success for RAF Bomber Command against a German city.
- 1969 – The New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, was formed.
- 1974 – A group of farmers in Shaanxi province, China, discovered a vast collection of terracotta statues depicting the armies of the first Emperor of China Qin Shi Huang.
- 1974 – NASA's Mariner 10, launched in November 1973, became the first space probe to fly by the planet Mercury.
- 1975 – Jeff Beck released Blow by Blow, his most successful album in the U.S., reaching the top five and selling over one million copies.
- 1982 – Queen Elizabeth II granted royal assent to the Canada Act 1982, which ended any remaining constitutional dependence of Canada on the United Kingdom by a process known as "patriation".
- 2010 – Islamist Chechen separatists detonated two bombs on the Moscow Metro, killing 40 people and injuring 102 others.
- 2014 – The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales took place following the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.
- Born/died this day: | Santorio Santorio |b|1561| Thomas Coram |d|1751| John Tyler |b|1790| Gottfried van Swieten |d|1803| Cornelio Saavedra |d|1829| Emilia Baeyertz |b|1842| Charles-Valentin Alkan |d|1888| Georges Seurat |d|1891| Anna Louise Strong |d|1970| Helene Deutsch |d|1982| Pap Cheyassin Secka |d|2012| Ruth A. M. Schmidt |d|2014
Notes
March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic (1959); Martyrs' Day in Madagascar (1947)
Vesta
- 1430 – After an eight-year siege, the Ottoman Empire captured the city of Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.
- 1807 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Vesta (pictured), the brightest asteroid and second-most massive body in the asteroid belt.
- 1941 – Second World War: British and Australian ships defeated Italian Regia Marina vessels at the Battle of Cape Matapan.
- 1981 – Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen jointly won the Men's Elite Race and Joyce Smith won the Women's Elite Race in the inaugural London Marathon.
- 1999 – The strongest earthquake to hit the foothills of the Himalayas in more than 90 years killed at least 100 people.
- Matthew Palaiologos Asen (d. 1467)
- Friedrich Traun (b. 1876)
- Harry Price (d. 1948)