Once Upon A Time – March 29 – 1961 – After A 4½ Year Trial, Nelson Mandela Is Acquitted Of Treason In Pretoria

845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving

1549 The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded

1901 Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister in Australia’s first parliamentary election

1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary “the end cannot be far”

1961 After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted of treason in Pretoria

1974 Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi’an, 8,000 clay warrior statues buried to guard the tomb of China’s 1st emperor, Qin Shi Huang

1999 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 – above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever

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1959 “Some Like It Hot”, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, is released in NYC

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1795 Ludwig van Beethoven (24) has his debut performance as a pianist in Vienna

TODAY IN SPORT

1994 Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys

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1945 Movie star Jimmy Stewart is promoted to full colonel, one of the few Americans to rise from private to colonel in four years

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1986 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia