^B{^#!16!29 March^N! Feast day of Saints Gwynllyw and Gwladys, St Cyril of Heliopolis, St Berthold, St Mark of Arethusa, St Rupert of Salzburg, Saints Jonas, Barachisius and Others, Saints Armogastes, Masculas, Achinimus, and Saturus.
^B{1461^B} Over 28,000 people are said to have been killed in the Battle of Towton, N Yorkshire, England; the Lancastrians under Henry VI were defeated. ^B{1871^B} The Albert Hall, London, was opened by Queen Victoria. ^B{1886 ^B}Coca Cola went on sale in the US; it was marketed as a 'Brain Tonic' and claimed to relieve exhaustion. ^B{1971^B} In the US, Lt. William Calley was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of the murder of civilians in the South Vietnamese village of My Lai in 1969. ^B{1973^B} The last US troops left Vietnam. ^B{1974^B} US spacecraft ^I{Mariner 10^I} took close-up photographs of the planet Mercury.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Elihu Thomson, US inventor, ^B{1853^B}; Edwin Lutyens, English architect, ^B{1869^B}; William Walton, English composer, ^B{1902^B}; Pearl Bailey, US singer, ^B{1918^B}; Norman Tebbit, British politician, ^B{1931^B}; John Major, British prime minister, ^B{1943^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Charles Wesley, English evangelist and hymn-writer, ^B{1788^B}; Maria Fitzherbert, mistress of King George IV, ^B{1837^B}; Georges-Pierre Seurat, French painter, ^B{1891^B}; Robert Falcon Scott, Antarctic explorer, ^B{1912^B}; Joyce Cary, Irish novelist, ^B{1957^B}; Vera Brittain, English socialist writer, ^B{1970^B}.
