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Events on March 29

• 1139 The Templar Order is confirmed by the Papal bull Omne datum optimum of Innocent II and is placed directly under the Pope.
• 1795 In Vienna, the world premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19, takes place with the composer as soloist. Beethoven will subsequently rework the work several more times.
• 1848 To respond to the citizens who protested during the March Revolution, the Prussian King Frederick William IV appoints a government led by Ludolf Camphausen and David Hansemann. However, it cannot assert itself against the aristocracy and the military before being dissolved on June 20.
• 1886 The Austrian Wilhelm Steinitz becomes the first chess world champion with a victory over the Polish player Johannes Hermann Zukertort (12.5–7.5).
• 1933 Following the Reichstag fire, the German Reichstag passes the Lex van der Lubbe, a retrospective law enabling the presumed arsonist Marinus van der Lubbe to be sentenced to death.
• 1956 The special signal systems now commonly used in Germany, consisting of blue lights and sirens, are prescribed in the road traffic licensing regulations.
• 1960 At Frankfurt am Main, the Gravenbruch drive-in cinema opens its doors as Europe's first drive-in cinema.
• 1970 Television viewers can receive the news programs Tagesschau on ARD and heute on ZDF in color from now on.
• 1974 The U.S. space probe Mariner 10 becomes the first Earth-based spacecraft to pass the planet Mercury and transmits over 2000 images of the planet.
• 1983 The Greens enter the German Bundestag as a parliamentary group for the first time. On the same day, Helmut Kohl is reelected as Federal Chancellor and forms his Kohl II cabinet the following day.
• 1989 French President François Mitterrand opens the glass pyramid designed by architect Ieoh Ming Pei in the courtyard of the Louvre. It marks the beginning of the further expansion of the museum complex.
• 2017 Great Britain officially applies for the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.

Born on March 29

• 1891 Alfred Neubauer, German racing director of the Mercedes Grand Prix team
• 1911 Brigitte Horney, German actress
• 1911 Freya von Moltke, German resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1912 Ernst von Delius, German racing driver
• 1930 Niels Clausnitzer, German actor
• 1950 Mory Kanté, Guinean griot musician
• 1961 Michael Winterbottom, British film director
• 1980 Natalia Avelon, German-Polish singer and actress
• 1990 Timothy Chandler, German-American football player
• 1991 N’Golo Kanté, French football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „29. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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