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March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic (1959); Martyrs' Day in Madagascar (1947)

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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.
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)
Emilia Baeyertz (b. 1842)
Sam Loxton (b. 1921)
Ruth A. M. Schmidt (d. 2014)

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