EVENTS:
- 1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
- 1946 – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico’s leading universities, is founded.
- 1955 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 106 is adopted.
- 1961 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
- 1974 – NASA’s Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
- 1999 – A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
- 2006 – Solar eclipse of March 29, 2006
- 2010 – Two suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.
- 2013 – At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- 2013 – A landslide kills 66 people in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region near Lhasa.
- 2017 – The United Kingdom invokes Article 50, beginning the formal process of Brexit.
- 2021 – The ship Ever Given was dislodged from the Suez Canal.
BIRTHS:
- 1902 – Don Miller, American football player and coach (d. 1979)
- 1914 – Chapman Pincher, Indian-English historian, journalist, and author (d. 2014)
- 1921 – Sam Loxton, Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician (d. 2011)
- 1927 – John Vane, English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1928 – Romesh Bhandari, Pakistani-Indian politician, 13th Foreign Secretary of India (d. 2013)
- 1934 – Shahryar Khan, Indian-Pakistani politician and diplomat, 20th Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
- 1955 – Earl Campbell, American football player
- 1989 – James Tomkins, English footballer
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