Chicago Daily Tribune

ON MARCH 29 ...

In 1638 Swedish colonists settled in present-day Delaware.

In 1867 the British Parliament approved the North America Act, establishing the Dominion of Canada. Also in 1867 baseball player Cy Young, for whom the award for Major League Baseball’s best pitchers is named, was born in Gilmore, Ohio.

In 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. (They were executed in June 1953.)

In 1971 Army Lt. William

Calley Jr. was convicted of murdering at least 22 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre. (Calley ended up spending 3 years under house arrest.) Also in 1971 a Los Angeles jury recommended death penalties for Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders. (The sentences later were commuted to life in prison.)

In 1973 the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam, ending America’s direct military involvement in the Vietnam War.

In 1992 Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton acknowledged experimenting with marijuana “a time or two” while attending Oxford University, adding, “I didn’t inhale and I didn’t try it again.”

In 1998 the Lady Vols of Tennessee won a third straight NCAA basketball championship, defeating Louisiana Tech 93-75.

In 1999 the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 10,000 for the first time, ending the day at 10,006.78.

In 2002 Israel declared Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat an enemy and sent tanks and armored personnel carriers to fully isolate him in his Ramallah, West Bank, headquarters.

In 2004 President George

W. Bush welcomed seven former Soviet-bloc nations (Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Latvia and Estonia) into NATO during a White House ceremony.

In 2006 Major League Baseball began its investigation into alleged steroid use by Barry Bonds and others.

In 2013 Alaska U.S. Rep. Don Young apologized after using a Hispanic slur to describe the migrant workers his family once employed. Also in 2013 former Atlanta Public Schools superintendent Beverly Hall and 34 others were indicted on racketeering and corruption charges in one of the largest cheating scandals to hit the nation’s public education system.