29 March 1620
Anthony Van Dyck contracts for 39 ceiling paintings for S. Carolusborromeuskirk Antwerp based on Rubens' designs
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29 March 1602
John Lightfoot, rabbinical scholar, Master of St. Catharine's Cambridge & Vice-Chancellor was born.
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29 March 1626
Charles I defends the Duke of Buckingham against Parliament in a speech written by William Laud
Almost exactly year earlier on his deathbed, James VI & I had asked Charles to protect Buckingham. #History #HistoryMatters
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A Palm Sunday image - a fine Ethiopian depiction of Jesus entering Jerusalem #History #HistoryMatters
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The photo shows a New Testament from a Baptist missionary family friend from Southern Carolina.
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VIDEO - Step into 1863: Hidden treasures, mysteries and facts abound when you read a diary that's 162 years old: The Centum Diary: One Year in the Life of a Civil War Union Soldier. #HistoryMatters youtu.be/KRfz7zrAFXs
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Agatha Christie and Margaret Rutherford, who played Miss Marple in the early 1960s, met for the first time in 1961 on the set of Murder, She Said, the first of four MGM films starring Rutherford as Miss Marple.
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The Spacelander bicycle, originally designed in 1946, didn't enter production until 1960.
Only about 500 units were ever made
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The tomb of Thomas Sayers (1826–1865), the renowned English bare-knuckle prize fighter, stands in London's Highgate Cemetery.
It is guarded by a life-sized sculpture of his faithful dog, Lion, who served as chief mourner at his funeral
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29 March 1869
Sir Edwin Lutyens was born
The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century". #HistoryMatters #History
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28 March 1963
Alfred Hitchcock’s horror thriller film The Birds premiered in the U.S. #History #HistoryMatters
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27 March 1930
In Germany, the coalition government of the Social Democratic Party and the German People’s Party collapses after disagreeing about unemployment insurance premiums. #History #HistoryMatters
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28 March 1916
During WWI, Germany launches the first cargo submarine, the Deutschland.
It had no armaments but could carry up to 791 tons of cargo.
It made only two trips during the war but carried ~1,800 tons of cargo. #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
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28 March 37 AD
Caligula accepts the title of Principate and enters Rome as crowds hail him as "our baby" and "our star" after the Roman Senate named him emperor days earlier on March 18. #HistoryMatters #History
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28 March 845
During the Siege of Paris, Vikings, led by Ragnar Lodbrok, sack Paris.
They collect a humiliating ransom from West Francia King Charles the Bald in exchange for leaving the city after Ragnar defeats his troops near Paris
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28 March 1947
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) kills communist Polish General Karol Świerczewski.
The UPA had been fighting the communists in both Poland and the Soviet Union.
There is speculation the Soviet NKVD was complicit in the killing #HistoryMatters #History
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28 March 1941
Adolf Hitler tells Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka that if the Soviet Union attacked Japan, Germany would come to Japan's aid
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28 March 193
Didius Julianus becomes Roman emperor for nine weeks after buying the throne from the Praetorian guard who killed Emperor Pertinax.
It led to a civil war where three generals claimed the title
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28 March 1930
Turkey changes the name of its largest city, Constantinople, to Istanbul.
The Turks had been using the name Istanbul for years.
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29 March 1945
After years of bombing during World War II, the last bomb drops on Britain.
It was a V1 German rocket.
The war in Europe ends on May 8. #WW2 #History #HistoryMatters
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29 March 1912
Captain Robert Scott wrote his last diary entry: “We are getting weaker ... the end cannot be far.” It’s thought he and his exploration team died shortly afterwards. The frozen remains of Scott and his team were found in Antarctica on 12 November 1912. #History #HistoryMatters
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29 March 1920
William Robertson became the first and only enlisted private to rise to the rank of Field Marshal in the British Army.
Robertson was admired by King George V and George VI for his rise from humble origins and he was a highly respected officer. #HistoryMatters #History
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29 March 1936
Hitler received 98.8 per cent of votes in a referendum to either ratify or reject Germany’s illegal military reoccupation of the Rhineland.
The vote showed the German people overwhelmingly approved of Hitler’s unilateral breach of the Treaty of Versailles.
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29 March 1965
The Sound of Music was released in the UK.
It starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
It was based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp and is set in Salzburg, Austria. #HistoryMatters #History
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29 March 1971
US Army officer William Calley was sentenced to life for his role in the My Lai massacre when 500 civilians were killed on 16 March 1968.
Details were not revealed to the public until November 1969.
Calley was not imprisoned and was pardoned by President Nixon. #HistoryMatters
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29 March 1973
Two months after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, the last US combat troops pulled out of Vietnam ending direct US military involvement in the war. #History #HistoryMatters
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29 March 1974
US Mariner 10 became the first spacecraft to reach the planet Mercury.
It had been launched by NASA in November 1973.
It sent back photographic images of a planet usually obscured because of its proximity to the sun. #HistoryMatters #History
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29 March 1974
A collection of life-size terracotta warriors “The Terracotta Army” was discovered outside Xian, China.
They were buried with the 1st Qin Emperor in 210–209 BC, with the purpose of protecting him in his afterlife.
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29 March 1979
US Committee on Assassinations Report concluded the assassination of John F. Kennedy was “probably” the result of a conspiracy (later withdrawn), but confirmed once again that the fatal bullets were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald from the Texas School Book Depository. #HistoryMatters
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29 March 1981
The first London Marathon took place with around 7,000 entrants. 1 Million people lined the streets to see the race. The men’s race was won by American Dick Beardsley, who crossed the line with Inge Simonsen of Norway. Briton Joyce Smith won the women’s race. #History #HistoryMatters
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