9 Farvardin 1374

Events

• 1549 (477 years ago) The city of Salvador, Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
• 1961 (65 years ago) The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
• 1962 (64 years ago) Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11+1⁄2 day constitutional crisis.
• 1968 (58 years ago) The funeral of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, begins in Moscow, with thousands of people in attendance.
• 1973 (53 years ago) Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
• 2002 (24 years ago) In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
• 2004 (22 years ago) Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.

Births

• 1790 (236 years ago) John Tyler, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the United States (died 1862)
• 1895 (131 years ago) Ernst Jünger, German philosopher and author (died 1998)
• 1899 (127 years ago) Lavrentiy Beria, Georgian-Russian general and politician (died 1953)
• 1943 (83 years ago) John Major, English banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1943 (83 years ago) Vangelis, Greek keyboard player and songwriter (died 2022)
• 1960 (66 years ago) Jo Nesbø, Norwegian writer, musician and football player
• 1968 (58 years ago) Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress
• 1991 (35 years ago) N'Golo Kanté, French footballer

Deaths

• 1058 (968 years ago) Pope Stephen IX,
• 1772 (254 years ago) Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish astronomer, philosopher, and theologian (born 1688)
• 1792 (234 years ago) Gustav III, Swedish king (born 1746)
• 1891 (135 years ago) Georges Seurat, French painter (born 1859)
• 1912 (114 years ago) Robert Falcon Scott, English lieutenant and explorer (born 1868)
• 1982 (44 years ago) Carl Orff, German composer and educator (born 1895)
• 2017 (9 years ago) Alexei Abrikosov, Russian physicist, 2003 Nobel laureate in Physics (born 1928)
• 2019 (7 years ago) Agnès Varda, French film director (born 1928)

All 339 events, births and deaths of March 29