What happend on 29th March

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1953

A fire at a nursing home in Largo, Florida kills 35 people.

1951

Red Scare: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.

1945

World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.

1941

World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces intercept those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesus coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.

1930

Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.

1911

The M1911 semi-automatic handgun designed by John Browning becomes the standard-issue handgun in the United States Army, and is subsequently widely used in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War.

1882

The Knights of Columbus are established.

1879

Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.

1871

The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.

1867

Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.