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Amy Sedaris

1961 -

Comedian, actress and writer noted for quirky turns in TV's "Strangers With Candy" and "BoJack Horseman."

Cy Young

1867 - 1955

Pioneering baseball pitcher who won a record 511 major league games from 1890-1911. Namesake of MLB's annual award for best pitcher.

Emlen Tunnell

1924 - 1975

Football star for the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers. First Black athlete inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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1974

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A Chinese farmer digging a well uncovers some pottery fragments, leading to an astounding discovery: an army of more than 8,000 lifesize warriors, each unique, buried in formation in a royal tomb for more than 2,200 years.

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Also on This Day in History

Discover more of the major events, famous births, notable deaths and everything else history-making that happened on March 29th

Appomattox, the final campaign in the Civil War, begins

On March 29, 1865, the final campaign of the Civil War begins in Virginia when Union troops under General Ulysses S. Grant move against the Confederate trenches around Petersburg. General Robert E. Lee’s outnumbered Rebels were soon forced to evacuate the city and begin a desperate race west. Eleven months earlier, Grant moved his army […]

Gen. George Patton takes Frankfurt

Gen. George S. Patton’s 3rd Army captures Frankfurt, as “Old Blood and Guts” continues his march east. Frankfurt am Main, literally “On the Main” River, in western Germany, was the mid-19th century capital of Germany (it was annexed by Prussia in 1866, ending its status as a free city). Once integrated into a united German […]

The “Mad Bomber” strikes in New York

On March 29, 1951, a homemade device explodes at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, startling commuters but injuring no one. In the next few months, five more bombs were found at landmark sites around New York, including the public library. Authorities realized that this new wave of terrorist acts was the work of […]

Rosenbergs convicted of espionage

In one of the most sensational trials in American history, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II. The husband and wife were later sentenced to death and were executed in 1953. The conviction of the Rosenbergs was the […]

First reading of the Keeling Curve, which shows carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere

In March of 1958, Dr. Charles David Keeling begins regularly measuring the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawai’i. Over the ensuing years, his research will reveal what is now known as the Keeling Curve: a graph of continuously-taken measurements showing the rapid accumulation of carbon dioxide. Previously, […]

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Lt. William Calley found guilty of My Lai murders

Lt. William L. Calley is found guilty of premeditated murder at My Lai by a U.S. Army court-martial at Fort Benning, Georgia. Calley, a platoon leader, had led his men in a massacre of Vietnamese civilians, including women and children, at My Lai 4, a cluster of hamlets in Quang Ngai Province on March 16, […]

U.S. space probe, Mariner, visits Mercury

The unmanned U.S. space probe Mariner 10, launched by NASA in November 1973, becomes the first spacecraft to visit the planet Mercury, sending back close-up images of a celestial body usually obscured because of its proximity to the sun. Mariner 10 had visited the planet Venus eight weeks before but only for the purpose of […]

Exiled writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn reunited with family

On March 29, 1974, prominent Soviet author, historian and political dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is reunited with his family after being exiled from his home country. Publication of The Gulag Archipelago, his detailed history of the Soviet Union’s vast system of prisons and labor camps, helped raise global awareness of the communist nation’s rampant political repression. Its […]

Freshman Michael Jordan hits winning shot to give North Carolina NCAA title

On March 29, 1982, 19-year-old North Carolina freshman Michael Jordan makes a 16-foot jump shot with 15 seconds left to give the Tar Heels a 63-62 win over Georgetown for the NCAA Tournament championship. “To tell the truth,” Jordan tells reporters in New Orleans afterward, “I didn’t see it go in. I didn’t want to […]

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