March 30
March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap years). There are 276 days remaining.
Events:
- 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign a decree aimed at expelling all Jews from Spain.
- 1533 - Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1822 - Florida becomes a United States territory.
- 1842 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation (Dr. Crawford Long performed the operation and ether was used).
- 1855 - "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 two cents an acre) by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this "Seward's Folly."
- 1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is adopted, granting African-American men the right to vote.
- 1870 - Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
- 1912 - France establishes a protectorate over Morocco.
- 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna.
- 1946 - The Allies seized 1,000 Nazis attempting to revive the Nazi party in Frankfurt.
- 1951 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
- 1964 - The game show Jeopardy! debuts on television.
- 1972 - Vietnam War: The Eastertide Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
- 1981 - President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by a deranged drifter named John Hinckley Jr. Two police officers and James Brady are also wounded.
- 1987 - Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Sunflowers" is bought for $39.85 million.
Births:
- 1746 - Francisco Goya, painter (+ 1828)
- 1798 - Luise Hensel, poet (+ 1876)
- 1811 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, chemist, inventor: Bunsen burner (+ 1899)
- 1844 - Paul Verlaine, lyric poet (+ 1896)
- 1853 - Vincent van Gogh, painter (+ 1890)
- 1879 - Coen de Koning, speed skater (+ 1954)
- 1880 - Sean O'Casey, dramatist (+ 1964)
- 1895 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (+ 1975)
- 1913 - Richard Helms, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (+ 2002)
- 1913 - Frankie Laine, singer
- 1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson, musician
- 1919 - McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor (+ 1996)
- 1930 - John Astin, actor
- 1937 - Warren Beatty, actor/director
- 1940 - Astrud Gilberto, singer
- 1945 - Eric Clapton, blues guitarist
- 1949 - Lene Lovich, singer
- 1950 - Robbie Coltrane, actor, comedian
- 1957 - Paul Reiser, actor
- 1964 - Tracy Chapman, singer
- 1968 - Céline Dion, singer
- 1979 - Norah Jones, musician
Deaths:
- 1842 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, painter
- 1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher
- 1894 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer
- 1912 - Karl May, author
- 1986 - James Cagney, actor
- 1947 - Arthur Machen, author
- 2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom
Holidays and observances:
- Roman Empire - Festival devoted to Salus
See Also:
March 29 - March 31 - April 30 -- listing of all days
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