March 30
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March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap years). There are 276 days remaining.
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Events
- 1296 - Edward I storms Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking the then-Scottish border town, slaughtering almost everyone, even those fleeing to the churches.
- 1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
- 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign a decree aimed at expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
- 1533 - Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
- 1822 - Florida Territory created in the United States.
- 1842 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long.
- 1844 - One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
- 1855 - Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas - "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
- 1856 - The Treaty of Paris (1856) is signed, ending the Crimean War.
- 1858 - Hyman Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.
- 1863 - Prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleeswÿk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg is chosen as King George I of Greece.
- 1867 - Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this Seward's Folly.
- 1870 - Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
- 1912 - Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
- 1940 - Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking to be the capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.
- 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna; Alger Hiss congratulated in Moscow for his part in bringing about the Western betrayal at the Yalta Conference.
- 1951 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
- 1954 - The first subway in Canada opens after five years of construction, in Toronto.
- 1961 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
- 1962 - Jack Paar hosts his last episode of The Tonight Show.
- 1964 - The game show Jeopardy! debuts on television.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
- 1972 - Vietnam War: The Eastertide Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
- 1974 - The Ramones play their first ever gig as a trio at the Performance Studio in New York City.
- 1981 - President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr., family friend of the Vice President.
- 1987 - One of Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings is bought by Japanese insurance magnate Yasuo Goto for $39.85 million.
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Births
- 1432 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1481)
- 1746 - Francisco Goya, Spanish painter and engraver (d. 1828)
- 1798 - Luise Hensel, German poet (d. 1876)
- 1820 - Anna Sewell, British author (d. 1878)
- 1844 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
- 1853 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
- 1857 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
- 1875 - Jonathan Campbell, film pioneer (d. 1942)
- 1879 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (d. 1954)
- 1880 - Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist (d. 1964)
- 1892 - Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d. 1960)
- 1895 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1975)
- 1900 - Ted Heath, British musician and band leader (d. 1969)
- 1902 - Brooke Astor, philanthropist
- 1903 - Countee Cullen, American poet (d. 1946)
- 1913 - Censu Tabone, President of the Republic of Malta
- 1913 - Richard Helms, director of the American Central Intelligence Agency (d. 2002)
- 1913 - Frankie Laine, American singer
- 1913 - Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
- 1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson, musician
- 1917 - Herbert Anderson, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1919 - McGeorge Bundy, American National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
- 1922 - Turhan Bey, Turkish-Czechoslovakian actor
- 1926 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrrepreneur
- 1929 - Richard Dysart, American actor
- 1930 - John Astin, American actor
- 1930 - Rolf Harris, Australian artist, entertainer
- 1930 - Peter Marshall, game-show host
- 1937 - Warren Beatty, actor and director
- 1940 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer
- 1940 - Jerry Lucas, American basketball player
- 1941 - Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan
- 1945 - Eric Clapton, blues guitarist
- 1949 - Marcia Ball, blues pianist
- 1949 - Lene Lovich, singer
- 1950 - Robbie Coltrane, actor and comedian
- 1956 - Bill Butler, Scottish politician
- 1957 - Paul Reiser, actor
- 1962 - MC Hammer, rapper
- 1964 - Tracy Chapman, singer
- 1964 - Ian Ziering, American actor
- 1968 - Donna D'Errico, actress-model
- 1968 - Céline Dion, Canadian singer
- 1970 - Mark Consuelos, American actor
- 1970 - Secretariat, racehorse (d. 1989)
- 1976 - Obadele Thompson, Barbadan athlete
- 1978 - Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player
- 1979 - Norah Jones, musician
- 1984 - Anna Nalick, American singer-songwriter
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Deaths
- 1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1783 - William Hunter, anatomist (b. 1718)
- 1840 - Beau Brummell, English celebrity and dandy (b. 1778)
- 1842 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, painter (b. 1755)
- 1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)
- 1912 - Karl May, German author (b. 1842)
- 1947 - Arthur Machen, author (b. 1863)
- 1949 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
- 1966 - Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b. 1870)
- 1968 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor
- 1977 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (b. 1894)
- 1981 - DeWitt Wallace, American publisher
- 1984 - Karl Rahner, German theologian
- 1985 - Harold Peary, American actor, singer
- 1986 - James Cagney, actor (b. 1899)
- 1997 - Jon Stone, American writer, director, producer, co-creator of Sesame Street
- 1999 - Gary Morton, film and television producer
- 2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
- 2003 - Rudolf Walter Leonhardt, German journalist
- 2003 - Valentin Pavlov, former prime minister of the Soviet Union
- 2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor
- 2004 - Alistair Cooke, broadcaster
- 2004 - Michael King, New Zealand historian
- 2004 - Erick Friedman, American concert violinist, violin professor at Yale University
- 2004 - Hubert Gregg, BBC broadcaster
- 2004 - Timi Yuro, American singer
- 2005 - Mitch Hedberg, comedian
- 2005 - Robert Creeley, poet, died of complications from respiratory disease.
- 2005 - Milton Green, former record holder in hurdles, boycotted the 1936 Olympics as a protest against Hitler.
- 2005 - Fred Korematsu, Japanese-American civil rights leader, respiratory illness
- 2005 - Ootupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist
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Holidays and observances
- Roman Empire - Festival devoted to Salus
- Land Day
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External links
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/30)
- Today in History: March 30 (http://www.tnl.net/when/3/30)
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