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Today's featured article
- ... that Mount Okmok (pictured) in Alaska may have contributed to the downfall of Ptolemaic Egypt?
- ... that Majed Abu Maraheel, the first Palestinian Olympian, tended flowers for a living before becoming an Olympic runner?
- ... that Apollo 17 carried a 6-pound (2.7 kg) explosive charge as part of the Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment?
- ... that Edwin Atwater and his brother were the first people to import glass into Canada?
- ... that a former section of U.S. Route 101 was nicknamed the "Bloody Bayshore" for its frequent collisions?
- ... that Gerald Willis, after working as a bus driver at age 15, started a business that earned $2 million per year and built a replica of the Hermitage after watching The President's Lady?
- ... that Ian Begg restored Muckrach Castle after over 200 years without a roof?
- ... that John Jones took a leave of absence just days before succeeding Bob Harlan as chief executive officer of the Green Bay Packers, and ultimately left the team a few months later?
- ... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats?
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- The Francis Scott Key Bridge in the U.S. city of Baltimore collapses (wreckage pictured) after being hit by a container ship.
- Bassirou Diomaye Faye is elected President of Senegal.
- A mass shooting and explosions kill 143 people at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia.
- Following the Indonesian general election, Prabowo Subianto wins the presidential election, and the Democratic Party of Struggle wins the most votes in the legislative election.
On this day...
March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic (1959); Martyrs' Day in Madagascar (1947)
- 1461 – Wars of the Roses: The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrian army at the Battle of Towton, allowing Edward IV to secure the English throne.
- 1882 – The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, was founded by Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
- 1968 – The funeral of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, began in Moscow with tens of thousands of people in attendance.
- 1974 – NASA's Mariner 10 (pictured) became the first space probe to make a flyby of Mercury.
- 1999 – The Chamoli earthquake, one of the strongest to hit the foothills of the Himalayas in more than 90 years, killed at least 100 people.
- 2014 – The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales took place following the passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.
- Thomas Coram (d. 1751)
- Lou Henry Hoover (b. 1874)
- Sam Loxton (b. 1921)
- Ruth A. M. Schmidt (d. 2014)
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