Today is Tuesday, March 29, the 90th day of 2016. There are 276 days left in the year.
1795 — Beethoven debuts as pianist in Vienna
1798 — Republic of Switzerland forms
1804 — Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti
1848 — Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1849 — Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India
1864 — Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece
1867 — British North America Act (Canadian constitution) is passed
1867 — Congress approves Lincoln Memorial
1871 — Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria in London
1879 — Tchaikovsky’s opera "Onegin" premieres in Moscow