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Casey Stengel (1890–1975) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder, and a manager for the New York Yankees championship teams of the 1950s and for the New York Mets in the early 1960s. He was an outfielder for the 1912 Brooklyn Dodgers, and played on their 1916 National League championship team. After serving in the navy during World War I, he played for the Philadelphia Phillies, the New York Giants and the Boston Braves. In 1925 he began a career as a manager, with mostly poor finishes for the next twenty years, especially with the Dodgers (1934–1936) and Braves (1938–1943). In 1948 he was hired as Yankee manager. In his twelve seasons, his teams garnered ten pennants, winning seven World Series, including a record-setting streak of five in a row (1949–1953). He was known for his humorous and sometimes disjointed banter. His showmanship helped the Mets, an expansion team, when they hired him in late 1961, but the team finished last for four years in a row, and he retired in 1965. Remembered as one of the great characters in baseball history, Stengel was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966. (Full article...)

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Steve Smith

Cricket Australia bans Steve Smith (pictured), David Warner and Cameron Bancroft from international and Australian domestic cricket for between nine and twelve months over a ball tampering scandal.
More than 20 countries announce the expulsion of Russian diplomats in response to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
At least 64 people die in a shopping complex fire in Kemerovo, Russia.
March for Our Lives rallies are held across the United States and worldwide in support of tighter gun control.
The Boat Race is held in London, with Cambridge winning both the men's and the women's events.

On this day...

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

Terracotta Army

1430 – Byzantine–Ottoman wars: After an eight-year siege, the Ottoman Empire captured the Venetian city of Thessalonica.
1800 – William Matthews was ordained as the first British America-born Catholic priest.
1871 – The Royal Albert Hall in Albertopolis, London, was officially opened by Queen Victoria.
1974 – A group of farmers in Shaanxi province, China, discovered a vast collection of terracotta statues (pictured) depicting the armies of the first Emperor of China Qin Shi Huang.
2010 – Islamist Chechen separatists set off two bombs on the Moscow Metro, killing 40 and injuring 102 others.

John Tyler (b. 1790) · Charles-Valentin Alkan (d. 1888) · Helene Deutsch (d. 1982)

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Press conference after 2013 Dar es Salaam building collapse

Police Commissioner Suleiman Kova answers questions and addresses the media at the site of the 2013 collapse of a 16-storey residential apartment building in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, onto a nearby mosque compound. The disaster killed 36 people, and over 60 were trapped under the rubble.

Photograph: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

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