Ever visited Niagara Falls in Canada? Would you believe that on this day in history, Niagara Falls stopped flowing due to an ice jam? Jaw-dropping! Learn about other major events of March 29 in history.
Here, take a look!
- 1638-The establishment of the first permanent European settlement in Delaware.
- 1848-Niagara Falls stopped flowing for one day due to an ice jam.
- 1901-The first federal elections were held in Australia.
- 1912– Robert Scott made his final diary entry.
- 1913-The Reichstag announced a raise in taxes in order to finance the new military budget.
- 1936-Italy firebombed the Ethiopian city of Harar.
- 1946-Fiorella LaGuardia became the director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Organization.
- 1946-Gold Coast became the first British colony to hold an African parliamentary majority.
- 1951-The Chinese rejected MacArthur’s offer for a truce in Korea.
- 1962-Jack Paar made his final appearance on the “Tonight” show.
- 1966-Leonid Brezhnev became the First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
- 1971– Charles Manson was sentenced to death in the gas chamber.
- 1975– Egyptian President Anwar Sadat declared the reopening of the Suez Canal in June.
- 1986– A court in Rome acquitted six men in a plot to kill the Pope.
- 1993– Clint Eastwood won his first Oscars.
- 1998- Tennessee won the woman’s college basketball championship over Louisiana.
- 1999-For the first time, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 10,000 mark.
- 2004-Ireland became the first country to ban smoking in all workplaces
- 2010-The Tokyo Skytree tower became the tallest structure in Japan when it reached 1,109 feet.
- 2010-Two Chechen suicide bombers detonated their devices in the Moscow underground.