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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1282 - The people of
Sicily rebel against the
Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the
Sicilian Vespers.
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1296 -
Edward I sacks
Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between
Scotland and
England.
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1492 -
Ferdinand and
Isabella sign the
Alhambra decree aimed at expelling all
Jews from
Spain unless they convert to
Roman Catholicism.
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1533 -
Thomas Cranmer becomes
Archbishop of Canterbury.
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1814 -
Napoleonic Wars:
Sixth Coalition forces march into
Paris.
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1822 -
Florida Territory created in the
United States.
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1842 -
Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by
Dr. Crawford Long.
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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.
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1855 -
Origins of the American Civil War:
Bleeding Kansas - "
Border Ruffians" from
Missouri invade
Kansas and force election of a pro-
slavery legislature.
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1856 - The
Treaty of Paris (1856) is signed, ending the
Crimean War.
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1858 -
Hymen Lipman patents a
pencil with an attached
eraser.
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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.
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1870 -
Texas is readmitted to the
Union following
Reconstruction.
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1910 -
Mississippi Legislature founded
The University of Southern Mississippi.
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1912 -
Sultan Abdelhafid signs the
Treaty of Fez, making
Morocco a
French protectorate.
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1940 -
Sino-Japanese War:
Japan declares
Nanking to be the capital of a new
Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by
Wang Ching-wei.
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1945 -
World War II:
Soviet Union forces invade
Austria and take
Vienna,
Polish and
Soviet forces liberate
Gdańsk.
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1951 -
Remington Rand delivers the first
UNIVAC I computer to the
United States Census Bureau.
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1954 - The first
subway in
Canada opens after five years of construction, in
Toronto.
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1961 - The
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at
New York.
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1964 -
Merv Griffin's
game show Jeopardy! makes its debut on
television.
Art Fleming hosts the first episode on
NBC.
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1965 -
Vietnam War: A
car bomb explodes in front of the
U.S. Embassy in
Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
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1972 -
Vietnam War: The
Eastertide Offensive begins after
North Vietnamese forces cross into the
Demilitarized Zone (
DMZ) of
South Vietnam.
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1981 -
Reagan assassination attempt:
President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a
Washington, D.C., hotel by
John Hinckley, Jr. Reagan will become the first
U.S. president to survive
Tecumseh's curse, under which presidents elected in a year ending with zero died while in office.
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2006 -
Marcos Pontes is the first
Brazilian astronaut in space.
* 2006 - UK
Terrorism Act 2006 became law.
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1135 -
Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (d.
1204)
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1326 -
Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d.
1359)
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1432 -
Mehmed II,
Ottoman Sultan (d.
1481)
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1640 -
John Trenchard, English politician (d.
1695)
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1746 -
Francisco Goya, Spanish painter and engraver (d.
1828)
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1820 -
Anna Sewell, British author (d.
1878)
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1844 -
Paul Verlaine, French poet (d.
1896)
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1853 -
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d.
1890)
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1857 -
Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d.
1926)
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1864 -
Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (d.
1943)
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1875 -
Jonathan Campbell, American film pioneer (d.
1942)
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1879 -
Coen de Koning, Dutch ice skater (d.
1954)
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1880 -
Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist (d.
1964)
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1892 -
Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d.
1960)
* 1892 -
Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d.
1972)
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1894 -
Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (d.
1977)
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1895 -
Nikolai Bulganin,
Premier of the Soviet Union (d.
1975)
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1902 -
Ted Heath, British musician and band leader (d.
1969)
* 1902 -
Brooke Astor, American philanthropist
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1903 -
Countee Cullen, American poet (d.
1946)
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1904 -
Ripper Collins, baseball player (d.
1970)
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1910 -
Józef Marcinkiewicz, mathematician (d.
1940)
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1913 -
Marc Davis, American animator (d.
2000)
* 1913 -
Richard Helms, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d.
2002)
* 1913 -
Frankie Laine, American singer
* 1913 -
Censu Tabone,
President of Malta*
1914 -
Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d.
1948)
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1919 -
McGeorge Bundy, American National Security Advisor (d.
1996)
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1922 -
Turhan Bey, Turkish actor
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1923 -
Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d.
1986)
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1926 -
Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrepreneur
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1927 -
Peter Marshall, American game show host
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1928 -
Robert Badinter, French politician
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1929 -
Richard Dysart, American actor
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1930 -
John Astin, American actor
* 1930 -
Rolf Harris, Australian artist and entertainer
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1932 -
Ted Morgan, Swiss-born writer
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1935 -
Willie Galimore, American football player (d.
1964)
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1937 -
Warren Beatty, American actor and director
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1940 -
Jerry Lucas, American basketball player
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1941 -
Graeme Edge, British musician (
Moody Blues)
* 1941 -
Wasim Sajjad,
President of Pakistan*
1945 -
Eric Clapton, British guitarist/singer
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1949 -
Lene Lovich, American singer
* 1949 -
Naomi Sims, American fashion model and businesswoman
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1950 -
Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian
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1952 -
Peter Knights, Australian footballer and coach
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1956 -
Bill Butler, Scottish politician
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1957 -
Paul Reiser, American actor
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1958 -
Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor
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1959 -
Peter Ellis, disputed convicted child abuser
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1960 -
Luc Franco, Belgian journalist
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1962 -
MC Hammer (Stanley Kirk Burrell), American rapper
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1963 -
Eli-Eri Moura, Brazilian composer and conductor
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1964 -
Tracy Chapman, American singer
* 1964 -
Ian Ziering, American actor
* 1964 -
Dave Ellett, Canadian hockey player
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1966 -
Joey Castillo, American drummer (
Queens of the Stone Age)
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1967 -
Megumi Hayashibara, Japanese voice actress and singer
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1968 -
Donna D'Errico, American actress and model
* 1968 -
Céline Dion, Canadian singer
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1970 -
Mark Consuelos, American actor
* 1970 -
Secretariat, American racehorse (d.
1989)
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1973 -
Jan Koller, Czech footballer
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1976 -
Obadele Thompson, Barbadian athlete
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1978 -
Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player
* 1978 -
Fabian Basabe, American
reality series star
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1979 -
Norah Jones, American singer and pianist
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1980 -
Paul Wall, American rapper
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1983 -
Jeremie Aliadière, French footballer
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1984 -
Anna Nalick, American singer and songwriter
* 1984 -
Mario Ancic, Croatian tennis player
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1986 -
Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer
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1988 -
Stephen McLeod Blythe, Scottish singer songwriter in
The RipOffs*
1486 -
Thomas Bourchier,
Archbishop of Canterbury*
1526 -
Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b.
1471)
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1540 -
Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b.
1469)
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1559 -
Adam Ries, German mathematician (b.
1492)
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1587 -
Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b.
1507)
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1662 -
François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b.
1592)
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1707 -
Vauban, French architect (b.
1633)
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1764 -
Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b.
1695)
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1783 -
William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b.
1718)
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1804 -
Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b.
1718)
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1840 -
Beau Brummell, English celebrity and dandy (b.
1778)
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1842 -
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b.
1755)
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1879 -
Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b.
1815)
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1912 -
Karl May, German author (b.
1842)
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1936 -
Conchita Supervia, Spanish oper singer (b.
1895)
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1943 -
Jan Bytnar, Polish activist
* 1943 -
Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b.
1920)
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1949 -
Friedrich Bergius, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1884)
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1950 -
Léon Blum, French prime minister (b.
1872)
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1959 -
Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b.
1906)
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1965 -
Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1896)
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1966 -
Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b.
1870)
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1968 -
Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b.
1937)
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1970 -
Heinrich Brüning,
Chancellor of Germany (b.
1885)
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1972 -
Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (b.
1890)
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1977 -
Abdel Halim Hafez,
Egyptian singer and actor (b.
1929).
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1981 -
DeWitt Wallace, American publisher (b.
1889)
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1984 -
Karl Rahner, German theologian (b.
1904)
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1985 -
Harold Peary, American actor and singer (heart attack) (b.
1908)
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1986 -
James Cagney, American actor (b.
1899)
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1999 -
Gary Morton, American film and television producer (b.
1924)
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2002 -
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b.
1900)
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2003 -
Michael Jeter, American actor (b.
1952)
* 2003 -
Valentin Pavlov, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b.
1937)
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2004 -
Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (b.
1908)
* 2004 -
Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster (b.
1914)
* 2004 -
Michael King, New Zealand historian (b.
1945)
* 2004 -
Timi Yuro, American singer (b.
1940)
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2005 -
Robert Creeley, American poet (b.
1926)
* 2005 -
Milton Green, American athlete (b.
1913)
* 2005 -
Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (b.
1919)
* 2005 -
O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist (b.
1930)
* 2005 -
Derrick Plourde, American drummer (b.
1971)
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2006 -
Red Hickey, American football coach (b.
1917)
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Roman Empire - Festival devoted to
Salus.
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Land Day.
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Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day - Public holiday in
Trinidad and Tobago.
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National Doctors' Day - observed in the
USA.
Liturgical feasts
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Saint John Climacus (died 649)
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Saint Quirinus (d. 117)
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Saint Veronus*
Blessed Amadeus IX of Savoy*
Easter in
1975,
1986,
1991, and
1997.
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BBC: On This Day*
Epic Idiot: On This DayFebruary 28 -
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