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29 March 2023 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 29 March 2023 was a Wednesday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus.
- Top Film of 2023
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2023 was Barbie.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 29 March is Aries.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 29 March 2023 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for March is Aquamarine.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 29 March 2023 was First Quarter.
On this day: 29 March
- 2004 Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
- 2014 The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed.
- 2015 Air Canada Flight 624 skids off the runway at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, after arriving from Toronto shortly past midnight. All 133 passengers and five crews on board survive, with 23 treated for minor injuries.
- 2017 Prime Minister Theresa May invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
- 2021 The ship Ever Given is dislodged from the Suez Canal.
Famous people born on 29 March
- Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor (born 1955)
- Billy Beane, American baseball player and manager (born 1962)
- Eric Idle, English actor, comedian, musician and writer (born 1943)
- N'Golo Kanté, French footballer (born 1991)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2023 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2023 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 22 April – Sunak holds an emergency COBRA meeting to discuss the evacuation of British nationals caught up in the Sudan conflict.
- 13 May – The final of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Liverpool. The contest is won by Sweden's Loreen with the song "Tattoo", who becomes only the second person and the first woman to win the contest twice.
- 20 June – British businessmen Hamish Harding and Shahzada Dawood, along with Dawood's son, Suleman, are confirmed as being aboard the missing submersible that disappeared during a voyage to see the wreck of the RMS Titanic two days earlier.
Life in 2023
Prime Minister
Rishi Sunak
Monarch
Charles III
Pint of Beer
£4.80
Loaf of Bread
£1.95
Average House
£291,228
Weekly Wage
£1,035.00
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