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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_29" title="March 29">March 29</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barth%C3%A9lemy_Boganda" title="Barthélemy Boganda">Boganda Day</a></b> in the Central African Republic (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959" title="1959">1959</a>); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malagasy_Uprising" title="Malagasy Uprising">Martyrs' Day</a></b> in Madagascar (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947" title="1947">1947</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1430" title="1430">1430</a> – After <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Thessalonica_(1422%E2%80%931430)" title="Siege of Thessalonica (1422–1430)">an eight-year siege</a></b>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a> captured the city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thessaloniki" title="Thessaloniki">Thessalonica</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Venice" title="Republic of Venice">Republic of Venice</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1461" title="1461">1461</a> – During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses" title="Wars of the Roses">Wars of the Roses</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_York" title="House of York">Yorkist</a> troops defeated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lancaster" title="House of Lancaster">Lancastrian</a> forces at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Towton" title="Battle of Towton">Battle of Towton</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire" title="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a>, England, one of the largest land battles ever fought in England.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968" title="1968">1968</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_of_Yuri_Gagarin_and_Vladimir_Seryogin" title="Funeral of Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Seryogin">funeral of Yuri Gagarin</a></b>, the first man in space, started in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>, with tens of thousands of people in attendance.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974" title="1974">1974</a> – A group of farmers in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaanxi" title="Shaanxi">Shaanxi</a> province, China, discovered <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army" title="Terracotta Army">a vast collection of terracotta statues</a></b> depicting the armies of the first Emperor of China <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang" title="Qin Shi Huang">Qin Shi Huang</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017" title="2017">2017</a> – British prime minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May" title="Theresa May">Theresa May</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_invocation_of_Article_50_of_the_Treaty_on_European_Union" title="United Kingdom invocation of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union">invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union</a></b>, formally beginning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit" title="Brexit">the United Kingdom's withdrawal</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler" title="John Tyler">John Tyler</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1790); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelio_Saavedra" title="Cornelio Saavedra">Cornelio Saavedra</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1829); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Deutsch" title="Helene Deutsch">Helene Deutsch</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1982)</p>
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