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A total solar eclipse occurred on March 29, 2006. 

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29th March 1903, Melbourne: A mystery surrounds Friday night's supposed earthquake.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OAM19030330.2.16

The 1999 Chamoli earthquake occurred on 29 March 1999 in the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Chamoli_earthquake



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The V-1 attacks stopped when the last launch site was overrun on 29 March 1945.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb

The European Launcher Development Organisation was established on March 29, 1962
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Launcher_Development_Organisation

The first Mariner 10 Mercury encounter took place at 20:47 UT on March 29, 1974
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t41986532/mariner-10/

The Galileo spacecraft flyby of Europa on the 29th March 1998.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_spacecraft

On 29 March 2006, the Ekspress AM11 satellite was struck by an unknown object which rendered it inoperable. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t6497272/express-am11/



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Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev (29 March 1931 - 21 February 2015) was a Soviet cosmonaut 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei_Gubarev

Aleksandr Stepanovich Viktorenko (March 29, 1947) is a Soviet cosmonaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Viktorenko

William Anthony Oefelein (born March 29, 1965) is a NASA astronaut 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Oefelein

Michael James Foreman (born March 29, 1957) is an American astronaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_James_Foreman

Enea Bossi, Sr. (29 March 1888 - 1963) was an Italian-American aerospace engineer and aviation pioneer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enea_Bossi,_Sr.

Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 - 24 August 1979) was a German aviator 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Reitsch

Tullio Levi-Civita, FRS (29 March 1873 - 29 December 1941) was an Italian mathematician
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullio_Levi-Civita

Emilios T. Harlaftis (29 March 1965, Kiato - 13 February 2005 Menalo) was an astrophysicist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilios_T._Harlaftis

Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. (born March 29, 1941) is an American astrophysicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hooton_Taylor,_Jr.

Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues (29 March 1827 - 28 January 1884) was a German astronomer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Friedrich_Wilhelm_Klinkerfues

Robert Horace Baker (March 29, 1883 - June 23, 1964) was an American astronomer. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Horace_Baker

Sir Harold Spencer Jones (29 March 1890 Kensington, London - 3 November 1960) was an English astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Spencer_Jones

Lucy Lawless, MNZM (born Lucille Frances Ryan; 29 March 1968) is a New Zealander actress and singer. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Lawless



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Star Trek: "Assignment: Earth" was first broadcast on March 29, 1968

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NGC 2573 was discovered by John Herschel on the 29th March 1837.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57157571/ngc-2573/

NGC 2761 was discovered by Albert Marth on the 29th March 1865.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57157556/ngc-2761/

NGC 5241 was discovered by Lewis Swift on the 29th March 1886.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57157546/ngc-5241/



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GRB 030329 was a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that was detected on 29 March 2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRB_030329
(GRB 030329 was the first burst whose afterglow definitively exhibited characteristics of a supernova)

Extrasolar planet 79 Ceti b was discovered on the 29th March 2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/79_Ceti_b

Discovery of Asteroid 4 Vesta on the 29th March 1807 by Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t34117235/asteroid-4-vesta/

Earth-grazing fireball on March 29, 2006
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t53848241/earth-grazing-fireball-on-march-29-2006/



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Meteorites

The Kulp (H6) meteorite fell in Armenia, on the 29th March, 1906.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t48486679/kulp-meteorite/



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