These historical events took place on March 29th:
1638: The first permanent white settlement in Delaware of Swedish Lutherans.
1799: New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.
1806: Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
1847: Over 12,000 troops from the United States captured Vera Cruz, Mexico.
1852: Ohio makes it illegal for children under eighteen and women to work more than ten hours a day.
1867: United States Congress first approves the build of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1929: United States President Herbert Hoover has the first telephone installed on the desk at the Oval Office’s in the White House.
1945: Movie star Jimmy Stewart is promoted to full colonel, one of the few Americans to rise from private to colonel in four years.
1951: American citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenburg are convicted and sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.
1978: Variety TV show “The Carol Burnett Show” last aired on CBS in the United States having won 25 Emmy Awards.
1989: The first United States private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.