On this day, March 29

Ireland stubs out smoking in public, divided politicians spark the Hyphen War, Mandela acquitted of treason, the Terracotta Army is found, and Dulcie September is murdered1803 Henry Francis Fynn, the Natal pioneer and settler and a member of an expedition to the Zulu chief Shaka in the 1820s, is born in London.1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours owing to an ice jam.1879 Having routed the mounted element of the British force at the Battle of Hlobane the day before, 20 000 Zulu warriors attack the British camp at Kambula deep in Zululand. Kambula was the decisive battle of the…