Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 29

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 * 845 – Viking expansion: Viking raiders, possibly led by the legendary Ragnar Lodbrok, plundered and occupied Paris (depicted), holding the city for a large ransom.
 * 1430 – After an eight-year siege, the Ottoman Empire captured the city of Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.
 * 1461 – Wars of the Roses: Yorkist troops defeated Lancastrian forces in Yorkshire at the Battle of Towton, one of the largest land battles ever fought in England.


 * 1800 – William Matthews was ordained as the first Catholic priest born in British America.
 * 1807 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered Vesta, the brightest asteroid and second-most massive body in the asteroid belt.
 * 1865 – American Civil War: The Appomattox campaign opened with the Battle of Lewis's Farm, in which the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was forced into a series of retreats that would culminate in their surrender.
 * 1941 – The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement to define technical standards for AM band radio stations came into effect.
 * 1941 – Second World War: British and Australian ships defeated Italian Regia Marina vessels at the Battle of Cape Matapan.
 * 1951 – The King and I, a musical about Mongkut of Siam by Rodgers and Hammerstein, premiered on Broadway.
 * 1968 – The funeral of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, began in Moscow with tens of thousands of people in attendance.
 * 1974 – A group of farmers in the Chinese province of Shaanxi discovered a vast collection of terracotta statues (pictured) depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China.
 * 1975 – Jeff Beck released Blow by Blow, his most successful album in the U.S., reaching the top five and selling over one million copies.
 * 1981 – Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen jointly won the Men's Elite Race and Joyce Smith won the Women's Elite Race in the inaugural London Marathon.
 * 1982 – Queen Elizabeth II granted royal assent to the Canada Act 1982, which ended any remaining constitutional dependence of Canada on the United Kingdom by a process known as patriation.
 * 2010 – Islamist separatists of the Caucasus Emirate detonated two bombs on the Moscow Metro, killing 40 people and injuring 102 others.
 * 2017 – British prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
 * Born/died this day: | Matthew Palaiologos Asen |d|1467| Santorio Santorio |b|1561| John Tyler |b|1790| Gottfried van Swieten |d|1803| Cornelio Saavedra |d|1829| Peig Sayers |b|1873| Lou Henry Hoover |b|1874| Friedrich Traun |b|1876| Charles-Valentin Alkan |d|1888| Georges Seurat |d|1891| March Fong Eu |b|1922| Harry Price |d|1948| Anna Louise Strong |d|1970| Johannes Leimena|d|1977| Helene Deutsch|d|1982| Haane Manahi |d|1986| Pap Cheyassin Secka |d|2012|