Video: 'THE KING AND I - Through Time and History'
(Thursday, March 29, 1951, 8:00 p.m. EST) — The King and I, the fifth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein, about the relationship between the King of Siam and a British schoolteacher, premiered tonight at Broadway’s St. James Theatre located at 246 West 44th Street in midtown Manhattan.
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Video: 'Inside Charles Manson's crazed cult | 60 Minutes Australia'
(Monday, March 29, 1971, 4:37 p.m. PST) — The same Los Angeles jury that found Charles Manson and the three young women members of his hippie “family” guilty two months ago of the seven brutal August 9-10, 1969, home invasion Tate-LaBianca murders voted death in the gas chamber as their punishment today following 10 hours of deliberation.
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Video: 'SYND 30 3 71 VERDICT DELIVERED AT THE TRIAL OF LEIUTENANT WILLIAM CALLEY'
(Monday, March 29, 1971, 4:31 p.m. EST; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. Army First Lieutenant William Calley was found guilty today of the premeditated murder of at least 22 South Vietnamese civilians on Mar. 16, 1968, in the My Lai massacre.
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Video: 'The 23rd Amendment Explained: The Constitution for Dummies Series'
(Wednesday, March 29, 1961, 12:14 p.m. CST) — The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, which extended the right to vote in presidential elections to citizens residing in the District of Columbia, was ratified today when Kansas became the 38th state to approve the measure.
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Video: 'Spy Saga of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg - Decades TV Network'
(Thursday, March 29, 1951, 11:00 a.m. EST; during the Cold War) — Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted today in New York of conspiracy to commit espionage for passing atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
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(Saturday, March 29, 1941) — “Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)” by the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra with vocalists Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart for ten consecutive weeks (March 29, April 5/12/19/26, May 3/10/17/24/31, 1941).
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