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.
Events
1296 - Edward I stormed Berwick-upon-Tweed , sacking the then Scottish border town with much bloodshed. He slaughtered almost everyone who resided there, even if they fled 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 (Dr. Crawford Long performed the operation and ether was used).
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 Sleesw˙k-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 .
1951 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau .
1954 - The first subway in Canada finally opens after five years of construction, in Toronto .
1961 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York .
1962 - Jack Paar films 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 CBGB 's 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 - Vincent Van Gogh 's painting "Sunflowers " is bought for $39.85 million.
Births
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 lyric poet (d. 1896 )
1853 - Vincent van Gogh , 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 , former President of the Republic of Malta
1913 - Richard Helms , director of the Central Intelligence Agency (d. 2002 )
1913 - Frankie Laine , singer
1913 - Marc Davis , American animator (d. 2000 )
1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson , musician
1917 - Herbert Anderson , American actor (d. 1994 )
1919 - McGeorge Bundy , National Security Advisor (d. 1996 )
1922 - Turhan Bey , Turkish-Czechoslovakian actor
1926 - Ingvar Kamprad , Swedish founder of IKEA
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/director
1940 - Astrud Gilberto , Brazilian singer
1940 - Jerry Lucas , American basketball player
1941 - Wasim Sajjad , former President of Pakistan
1945 - Eric Clapton , blues guitarist
1949 - Marcia Ball , blues pianist
1949 - Lene Lovich , singer
1950 - Robbie Coltrane , actor, comedian
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
1974 - Secretariat , Triple Crown winning racehorse (d. 1989 )
1976 - Obadele Thompson , Barbadan athlete
1978 - Chris Paterson , Scottish rugby player
1979 - Norah Jones , musician
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 , author (b. 1842 )
1947 - Arthur Machen , author (b. 1863 )
1966 - Maxfield Parrish , 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
Holidays and observances
External links
March 29 - March 31 - February 28 (February 29 ) - April 30 -- listing of all days
