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Portrait of John Tyler
John Tyler (1790–1862) was the tenth President of the United States (1841–45). He served as a Virginia state legislator, governor, U.S. representative, and senator before his election as vice president in 1840 on the Whig Party ticket led by William Henry Harrison. He became the first vice president to succeed to the presidency without being elected to the office after his running mate's death in April 1841. Taking the oath of office, he immediately moved into the White House and assumed full presidential powers, a precedent that would govern future successions and eventually become codified in the Twenty-fifth Amendment. He found much of the Whig program unconstitutional, and vetoed several of his party's bills. The Whigs, led by Kentucky Senator Henry Clay, dubbed him "His Accidency", and expelled him from the party. Stalemated on domestic policy, Tyler had several foreign-policy achievements, including the Webster–Ashburton Treaty with Britain and the Treaty of Wanghia with Qing China. He dedicated his last two years in office to the annexation of Texas, then retired to his Virginia plantation. When the Civil War began in 1861, Tyler won election to the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death. (Full article...)
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From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

Mesrop of Khizan (active 1605 - 1651) - The Baptism of Christ
... that one of Mesrop of Khizan's paintings (pictured) features Jesus Christ stepping on the head of a dragon?
... that Farkhunda, an Afghan woman, was killed in Kabul by a mob for an incident of Quran-burning that she may or may not have committed?
... that Nanticoke Creek has been erroneously referred to as Lee's Creek, Miller's Creek, Robbins Creek, Bobbs Creek, Rummage Creek, and Warrior Run Creek?
... that American physician Cora Smith Eaton was the first woman to summit the East Peak of Mount Olympus, and eventually climbed all six of Washington's major mountains?
... that Snowden, the film about whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently in production, is based on The Snowden Files and Time of the Octopus?
... that naval officer and meteorologist Lawrence Hogben participated in the hunt for the battleship Bismarck, and later helped plan the Normandy landings?
... that the Western Australian pipe lily grows readily in cultivation?
... that the 12th-century theologian Clement of Llanthony not only wrote a gospel harmony, but also a long commentary on the harmony?
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In the news


John F. Nash, Jr.
A 12-hour siege at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, ends with the death of more than 20 people, including a UN diplomat.
Mathematicians John F. Nash, Jr. (pictured) and Louis Nirenberg share the Abel Prize for their work on partial differential equations.
Saudi Arabia conducts airstrikes against Houthi militants and their allies after their advance on the provisional Yemeni capital of Aden.
Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore, dies at the age of 91.
A solar eclipse is visible across much of Europe, with totality over the Faroe Islands and Svalbard.
Suicide bombings at two mosques in Sana'a, Yemen, kill 142 people, including 13 children.
Ongoing: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Recent deaths: Tomas Tranströmer – Dinkha IV

On this day...


March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic; Martyrs' Day in Madagascar (1947)

4 Vesta
1807 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered 4 Vesta (pictured), the brightest asteroid and the second-most massive body in the asteroid belt.
1865 – American Civil War: The Appomattox Campaign opened with the Battle of Lewis's Farm, in which the Confederate States Army was forced into a series of retreats that would culminate in their surrender.
1871 – The Royal Albert Hall in Albertopolis, London, was officially opened by Queen Victoria.
1945 – World War II: The German 4th Army was almost completely destroyed by the Soviet Red Army at the Heiligenbeil Pocket in East Prussia.
1982 – Queen Elizabeth II gave Royal Assent to the Canada Act 1982, which ended all remaining dependence of Canada on the United Kingdom by a process known as "patriation".
More anniversaries: March 28 – March 29 – March 30
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Red Cross workers at the 2013 Dar es Salaam building collapse
Members of the Tanzanian Red Cross removing a victim of the 2013 Dar es Salaam building collapse from the rubble on 29 March. During this accident, in which a 16-storey residential tower collapsed onto a nearby mosque, more than sixty victims were caught inside the rubble; thirty-six, including five children, died. The cause of the accident was determined to be shoddy construction: poor materials were used, and the building was six stories taller than permitted.
Photograph: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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From today's featured article


Portrait of John Tyler
John Tyler (1790–1862) was the tenth President of the United States (1841–45). He served as a Virginia state legislator, governor, U.S. representative, and senator before his election as vice president in 1840 on the Whig Party ticket led by William Henry Harrison. He became the first vice president to succeed to the presidency without being elected to the office after his running mate's death in April 1841. Taking the oath of office, he immediately moved into the White House and assumed full presidential powers, a precedent that would govern future successions and eventually become codified in the Twenty-fifth Amendment. He found much of the Whig program unconstitutional, and vetoed several of his party's bills. The Whigs, led by Kentucky Senator Henry Clay, dubbed him "His Accidency", and expelled him from the party. Stalemated on domestic policy, Tyler had several foreign-policy achievements, including the Webster–Ashburton Treaty with Britain and the Treaty of Wanghia with Qing China. He dedicated his last two years in office to the annexation of Texas, then retired to his Virginia plantation. When the Civil War began in 1861, Tyler won election to the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death. (Full article...)
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From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

Mesrop of Khizan (active 1605 - 1651) - The Baptism of Christ
... that one of Mesrop of Khizan's paintings (pictured) features Jesus Christ stepping on the head of a dragon?
... that Farkhunda, an Afghan woman, was killed in Kabul by a mob for an incident of Quran-burning that she may or may not have committed?
... that Nanticoke Creek has been erroneously referred to as Lee's Creek, Miller's Creek, Robbins Creek, Bobbs Creek, Rummage Creek, and Warrior Run Creek?
... that American physician Cora Smith Eaton was the first woman to summit the East Peak of Mount Olympus, and eventually climbed all six of Washington's major mountains?
... that Snowden, the film about whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently in production, is based on The Snowden Files and Time of the Octopus?
... that naval officer and meteorologist Lawrence Hogben participated in the hunt for the battleship Bismarck, and later helped plan the Normandy landings?
... that the Western Australian pipe lily grows readily in cultivation?
... that the 12th-century theologian Clement of Llanthony not only wrote a gospel harmony, but also a long commentary on the harmony?
Archive – Start a new article – Nominate an article

 
In the news


John F. Nash, Jr.
A 12-hour siege at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, ends with the death of more than 20 people, including a UN diplomat.
Mathematicians John F. Nash, Jr. (pictured) and Louis Nirenberg share the Abel Prize for their work on partial differential equations.
Saudi Arabia conducts airstrikes against Houthi militants and their allies after their advance on the provisional Yemeni capital of Aden.
Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore, dies at the age of 91.
A solar eclipse is visible across much of Europe, with totality over the Faroe Islands and Svalbard.
Suicide bombings at two mosques in Sana'a, Yemen, kill 142 people, including 13 children.
Ongoing: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Recent deaths: Tomas Tranströmer – Dinkha IV

On this day...


March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic; Martyrs' Day in Madagascar (1947)

4 Vesta
1807 – German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered 4 Vesta (pictured), the brightest asteroid and the second-most massive body in the asteroid belt.
1865 – American Civil War: The Appomattox Campaign opened with the Battle of Lewis's Farm, in which the Confederate States Army was forced into a series of retreats that would culminate in their surrender.
1871 – The Royal Albert Hall in Albertopolis, London, was officially opened by Queen Victoria.
1945 – World War II: The German 4th Army was almost completely destroyed by the Soviet Red Army at the Heiligenbeil Pocket in East Prussia.
1982 – Queen Elizabeth II gave Royal Assent to the Canada Act 1982, which ended all remaining dependence of Canada on the United Kingdom by a process known as "patriation".
More anniversaries: March 28 – March 29 – March 30
Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries
It is now March 29, 2015 (UTC) – Reload this page




Today's featured picture


Red Cross workers at the 2013 Dar es Salaam building collapse
Members of the Tanzanian Red Cross removing a victim of the 2013 Dar es Salaam building collapse from the rubble on 29 March. During this accident, in which a 16-storey residential tower collapsed onto a nearby mosque, more than sixty victims were caught inside the rubble; thirty-six, including five children, died. The cause of the accident was determined to be shoddy construction: poor materials were used, and the building was six stories taller than permitted.
Photograph: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
Recently featured: United States ten-dollar bill – Pelagia noctiluca – Neuschwanstein Castle

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This Wikipedia is written in English. Started in 2001, it currently contains 4,752,957 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
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 español ·
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More than 400,000 articles: català ·
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