TODAY IN HISTORY

MONDAY MAR 29, 2021

1974

Eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted on federal charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University.

1638

Swedish colonists settled in present-day Delaware.

1861

President Abraham Lincoln ordered plans for a relief expedition to sail to South Carolina’s Fort Sumter, which was still in the hands of Union forces despite repeated demands by the Confederacy that it be turned over.

1912

British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, with his doomed expedition stranded in an Antarctic blizzard after failing to be the first to reach the South Pole, wrote the last words of his journal: “For Gods sake look after our people.”

1936

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler claimed overwhelming victory in a plebiscite on his policies.

1951

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted in New York of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

1971

Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. was convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the 1968 My Lai massacre. A jury in Los Angeles recommended the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969 Tate-la Bianca murders.

1973

The last United States combat troops left South Vietnam, ending America’s direct military involvement in the Vietnam War.

2010

Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in twin attacks on Moscow subway stations jam-packed with rush-hour passengers, killing at least 40 people and wounding more than 100.

2017

Britain filed for divorce from the European Union as Prime Minister Theresa May sent a six-page letter to EU Council President Donald Tusk.