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Notable anniversaries in history for today: March 29
- 100th: 1924 - Bayern and Vatican reach accord.
- 90th: 1934 - Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement, goes bankrupt.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Denny McLain; Detroit Tiger pitcher (1968 American League Most Valuable Player/Cy Young/31 wins).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of John Suchet; British TV journalist (Independent TV News).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Terry Jacks; Canadian singer (Poppy Family).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Karen Anne Quinlan in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA; famous comatose patient (right to die case).
- 60th: 1964 - First true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Jill Goodacre Connick in Lubbock, Texas, USA; model (Victoria Secrets).
- 60th: 1964 - Ted Collins, pianist (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at age 63.
- 50th: 1974 - Mariner 10's first fly-by of Mercury, returns photos.
- 40th: 1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 40th: 1984 - NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis under cover of night.
- 40th: 1984 - CBS airs the 100th episode of Knots Landing TV show.
- 30th: 1994 - Bill Travers, English actor (Trio, Gorgo, Born Free), dies at age 72 (born 1922).
- 30th: 1994 - Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys.
- 30th: 1994 - Last day of Test cricket for Allan Border.
- 30th: 1994 - Serbs and Croats sign a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia.
- 30th: 1994 - William Natcher, American politician (Representative-Democrat-Kentucky), dies at age 84.
- 25th: 1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 10,000 (10,006.78) for the first time.
- 25th: 1999 - In the Xizang-India border region, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurs. At least 100 people killed and 394 injured, over 21,100 houses destroyed.
- 25th: 1999 - UConn defeats Duke 77-74, for the 61st NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
- 20th: 2004 - The Republic of Ireland bans smoking in all enclosed work places, including restaurants, pubs and bars.
- 20th: 2004 - The largest expansion of North Atlantic Treaty Organization to date takes place, allowing Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia into the organization.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Alistaire Cooke at age 95; British/American journalist, television personality and broadcaster (Masterpiece Theatre TV show, Omnibus TV show, Letter from America radio show).
- 15th: 2009 - At the world women's curling championship in Gangneung, South Korea, Bingyu Wang of China defeats Sweden's Anette Norberg 8-6 to give China its first-ever world women's curling championship title.
- 15th: 2009 - At least 22 people are killed and 132 injured in a stampede before a World Cup of soccer qualifying match in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
- 15th: 2009 - At least 15 people die after a passenger train ploughs into a stationary cargo train in Tanzania.
- 15th: 2009 - In Melbourne, Australia, round 1 of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship is won by Jenson Button.
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