March 29
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[edit] Events
- 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
- 1936 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
- 1951 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
- 2004 - Estonia joins NATO
[edit] Births
- 1746 - Carlo Buonaparte, father of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1785)
- 1790 - John Tyler, tenth President of the United States (d. 1862)
- 1899 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist (d. 1953)
- 1912 - Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (d. 1979)
[edit] Deaths
- 1772 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)
- 1912 - Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (b. 1868)
