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March 30 is the 89 th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap Year s). There are 276 days remaining.
Events
- 1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin King Charles I , in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers .
- 1296 - Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed , during armed conflict between Scotland and England .
- 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign the Alhambra Decree aimed at expelling all Jew s from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism .
- 1533 - Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop Of Canterbury .
- 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 .
- - " 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 - Hymen Lipman patents a Pencil with an attached Eraser .
- 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 .
- 1910 - Mississippi Legislature founded The University Of Southern Mississippi .
- 1912 - Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty Of Fez , making Morocco a French Protectorate .
- declares Nanking to be the capital of a new Chinese Puppet Government , nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei .
- Forces invade Austria and take Vienna , Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdańsk .
- 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 .
- 1964 - Merv Griffin 's Game Show Jeopardy! makes its debut on Television . Art Fleming hosts the first episode on NBC .
- explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon , killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
- begins after North Vietnam ese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) of South Vietnam .
- 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.
- 2006 - Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space.
Births
- 1135 - Maimonides , Spanish rabbi and philosopher (d. 1204 )
- 1326 - Ivan II Of Russia , Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359 )
- 1432 - Mehmed II , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1481 )
- 1640 - John Trenchard , English politican (d. 1695 )
- 1746 - Francisco Goya , Spanish painter and engraver (d. 1828 )
- 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 )
- 1864 - Franz Oppenheimer , German sociologist (d. 1943 )
- 1875 - Jonathan Campbell , American film pioneer (d. 1942 )
- 1879 - Coen De Koning , Dutch ice skater (d. 1954 )
- 1880 - Sean O'Casey , Irish dramatist (d. 1964 )
- 1892 - Fortunato Depero , Italian artist (d. 1960 )
- 1894 - Sergey Ilyushin , Russian aerospace engineer (d. 1977 )
- 1895 - Nikolai Bulganin , Premier Of The Soviet Union (d. 1975 )
- 1902 - Ted Heath , British musician and band leader (d. 1969 )
- 1902 - Brooke Astor , American philanthropist
- 1903 - Countee Cullen , American poet (d. 1946 )
- 1904 - Ripper Collins , baseball player (d. 1970 )
- 1910 - Józef Marcinkiewicz , mathematician (d. 1940 )
- 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 )
- 1919 - McGeorge Bundy , American National Security Advisor (d. 1996 )
- 1922 - Turhan Bey , Turkish actor
- 1923 - Milton Acorn , Canadian poet (d. 1986 )
- 1926 - Ingvar Kamprad , Swedish entrepreneur
- 1927 - Peter Marshall , American game show host
- 1928 - Robert Badinter , French politician
- 1929 - Richard Dysart , American actor
- 1930 - John Astin , American actor
- 1930 - Rolf Harris , Australian artist and entertainer
- 1932 - Ted Morgan , Swiss-born writer
- 1935 - Willie Galimore , American football player (d. 1964 )
- 1937 - Warren Beatty , American actor and director
- 1940 - Jerry Lucas , American basketball player
- 1941 - Graeme Edge , British musician ( Moody Blues )
- 1941 - Wasim Sajjad , President Of Pakistan
- 1945 - Eric Clapton , British guitarist
- 1949 - Lene Lovich , American singer
- 1950 - Robbie Coltrane , Scottish actor and comedian
- 1952 - Peter Knights , Australian footballer and coach
- 1956 - Bill Butler , Scottish politician
- 1957 - Paul Reiser , American actor
- 1958 - Maurice LaMarche , Canadian voice actor
- 1959 - Peter Ellis , disputed convicted child abuser
- 1962 - MC Hammer , American rapper
- 1963 - Eli-Eri Moura , Brazilian composer and conductor
- 1964 - Tracy Chapman , American singer
- 1964 - Ian Ziering , American actor
- 1964 - Dave Ellett , Canadian hockey player
- 1966 - Joey Castillo , American drummer ( Queens Of The Stone Age )
- 1967 - Megumi Hayashibara , Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1968 - Donna D'Errico , American actress and model
- 1968 - Céline Dion , Canadian singer
- 1970 - Mark Consuelos , American actor
- 1970 - Secretariat , American racehorse (d. 1989 )
- 1976 - Obadele Thompson , Barbadian athlete
- 1978 - Chris Paterson , Scottish rugby player
- 1978 - Fabian Basabe , American Reality Series star
- 1979 - Norah Jones , American singer and pianist
- 1980 - Paul Wall , American rapper
- 1984 - Anna Nalick , American singer and songwriter
- 1984 - Mario Ancic , Croatian tennis player
Deaths
- 1486 - Thomas Bourchier , Archbishop Of Canterbury
- 1526 - Konrad Mutian , German humanist (b. 1471 )
- 1540 - Matthäus Lang Von Wellenburg , German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469 )
- 1559 - Adam Ries , German mathematician (b. 1492 )
- 1587 - Ralph Sadler , English statesman (b. 1507 )
- 1662 - François Le Métel De Boisrobert , French poet (b. 1592 )
- 1707 - Vauban , French architect (b. 1633 )
- 1764 - Pietro Locatelli , Italian composer (b. 1695 )
- 1783 - William Hunter , Scottish anatomist (b. 1718 )
- 1804 - Victor-François, 2nd Duc De Broglie , Marshal of France (b. 1718 )
- 1840 - Beau Brummell , English celebrity and dandy (b. 1778 )
- 1842 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun , French painter (b. 1755 )
- 1879 - Thomas Couture , French painter and teacher (b. 1815 )
- 1912 - Karl May , German author (b. 1842 )
- 1936 - Conchita Supervia , Spanish oper singer (b. 1895 )
- 1943 - Jan Bytnar , Polish activist
- 1943 - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski , Polish activist
- 1949 - Friedrich Bergius , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884 )
- 1950 - Léon Blum , French prime minister (b. 1872 )
- 1959 - Daniil Andreev , Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906 )
- 1965 - Philip Showalter Hench , American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1896 )
- 1966 - Maxfield Parrish , American artist (b. 1870 )
- 1968 - Bobby Driscoll , American actor (b. 1937 )
- 1970 - Heinrich Brüning , Chancellor Of Germany (b. 1885 )
- 1972 - Gabriel Heatter , American radio commentator (b. 1890 )
- 1977 - Abdel Halim Hafez , Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929 ).
- 1981 - DeWitt Wallace , American publisher (b. 1889 )
- 1984 - Karl Rahner , German theologian (b. 1904 )
- 1985 - Harold Peary , American actor and singer (heart attack) (b. 1908 )
- 1986 - James Cagney , American actor (b. 1899 )
- 1999 - Gary Morton , American film and television producer (b. 1924 )
- 2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon , Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900 )
- 2003 - Michael Jeter , American actor (b. 1952 )
- 2003 - Valentin Pavlov , Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1937 )
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 2006 - Red Hickey , American football coach (b. 1917 )
Holidays and observances
External links
February 28 - February 29 - ( February 30 ) - March 29 - March 31 - April 30 -- Listing Of All Days
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