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UPI Almanac for Sunday, March 29, 2015

Last U.S. combat troops leave Vietnam, Moscow subway attacks ... on this date in history.

By United Press International
A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial In Washington during a ceremony May 28, 2012. The last U.S. combat troops left the Vietnam War March 29, 1973. File Photo by Pat Benic/UPI
1 of 7 | A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial In Washington during a ceremony May 28, 2012. The last U.S. combat troops left the Vietnam War March 29, 1973. File Photo by Pat Benic/UPI | License Photo

Today is Sunday, March 29, the 88th day of 2015 with 277 to follow.

The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Mercury, Neptune and Saturn. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Uranus and Venus.

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Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. They include John Tyler, 10th president of the United States, in 1790; baseball pitching legend Cy Young in 1867; Eugene McCarthy, the Minnesota Democrat whose 1968 presidential campaign focused on U.S. opposition to the Vietnam War, in 1916; actor/singer Pearl Bailey in 1918; Walmart founder Sam Walton in 1918; political commentator John McLaughlin in 1927 (age 88); former British Prime Minister John Major in 1943 (age 72; actor Eric Idle in 1943 (age 72); Greek composer Vangelis in 1943 (age 72); basketball Hall of Fame member Walt Frazier in 1945 (age 70); Karen Ann Quinlan, the focus of arguments over the "right to die" when she fell into an irreversible coma, in 1954; football Hall of Fame member Earl Campbell in 1955 (age 60); actor Brendan Gleeson in 1955 (age 60); gymnast Kurt Thomas in 1956 (age 59); actor Christopher Lambert in 1957 (age 58); actor Amy Sedaris in 1961 (age 54); model Elle Macpherson in 1963 (age 52); actor Lucy Lawless in 1968 (age 47); former tennis star Jennifer Capriati in 1976 (age 39).

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On this date in history:

In 1812, Lucy Payne Washington, sister-in-law of U.S. President James Madison, married Supreme Court Justice Thomas Dodd in the first wedding performed in the White House.

In 1886, Coca-Cola was created by Dr. John Pemberton who produced it in his back yard in Atlanta.

In 1951, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for passing atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union, were sentenced to death. (They were executed in 1953.)

In 1961, The 23rd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment gave District of Columbia residents the right to vote in presidential elections.

In 1971, cult leader Charles Manson and three followers (Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel) were sentenced to death in the Tate-Labianca slayings in Los Angeles. (The sentences and a fifth death sentence, for Charles "Tex" Watson, were later commuted to life in prison.)

In 1973, the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam (some advisers and others remained), ending the United States' direct military involvement in a war that didn't officially end until 1975.)

In 1991, six-time Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti quit, opening the way for the country's 50th government since World War II.

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In 1999, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at more than 10,000 for the first time.

In 2004, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia joined NATO.

In 2006, acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Kadima Party narrowly won the national election, taking 28 seats, forcing it into a coalition situation.

In 2009, eight people died in a shooting rampage at a Carthage, N.C., nursing home and six others were killed in what police called murder-suicide shootings in Santa Clara., Calif.

In 2010, two female suicide bombers killed 39 people in attacks on the Moscow subway system.

In 2011, minuscule levels of radiation from Japan's earthquake-tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant were detected in at least 15 U.S. states but the Environmental Protection Agency said they posed no threat to public health.

In 2014, same-sex marriage became legal in England and Wales.


A thought for the day: "Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.

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