This Day in History: March 29

This Day in History: March 29

Also on this day:

1638: Swedish colonists settle in present-day Delaware.1867: Britain’s Parliament passes, and Queen Victoria signs, the British North America Act creating the Dominion of Canada, which would come into being the following July.1943: World War II rationing of meat, fats and cheese begins, limiting consumers to store purchases of an average of about two pounds a week for beef, pork, lamb and mutton using a coupon system.1951: The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The King and I” opens on Broadway.1962: Jack Paar hosts NBC’s “Tonight” show for the final time. (Johnny Carson would debut as host the following October.)1971: Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. is convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the 1968 My Lai massacre. (Calley would serve three years under house arrest.) 1971: A jury in Los Angeles recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders. (The sentences would be commuted.)1973: The last United States combat troops leave South Vietnam, ending America’s direct military involvement in the Vietnam War.1974: Eight Ohio National Guardsmen are indicted on federal charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University.1989: At the Academy Awards, “Rain Man” wins best picture, best director for Barry Levinson and best actor for Dustin Hoffman; Jodie Foster wins best actress for “The Accused.”2005: Famed attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. dies in Los Angeles at age 67.2017: Britain files for divorce from the European Union (“Brexit”) as Prime Minister Theresa May sends a six-page letter to EU Council President Donald Tusk. 2017: Two former aides to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are sentenced to prison for creating a colossal traffic jam at the George Washington Bridge for political revenge, a scandal that became known as “Bridgegate” and sank Christie’s White House hopes.2018: Russia announces the expulsion of more than 150 diplomats, including 60 Americans, and says it was closing a U.S. consulate in retaliation for Western expulsions of Russian diplomats over the poisoning of an ex-spy and his daughter in Britain.2018: Malala Yousafzai returns home to Pakistan for a four-day visit, the first by the 20-year-old Nobel laureate since she was shot by the Taliban five years earlier for speaking out in support of the education of girls. 2018: Rusty Staub, a favorite among baseball fans in the United States and Canada during an All-Star career that spanned 23 seasons, dies in Florida at age 73.

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