March 30
March 30 is the 89thth day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap years). There are 276 days remaining. Events1296 - 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" class="external">http://www.incb.org/e/conv/1961/-->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.
Births1746 - 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, philanthropist1903 - Countee Cullen, American poet (d. 1946)1913 - Censu Tabone, former President of the Republic of Malta1913 - Richard Helms, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (d. 2002) 1913 - Frankie Laine, singer1913 - Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson, musician1917 - Herbert Anderson, American actor (d. 1994)1919 - McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor (d. 1996)1922 - Turhan Bey, Turkish-Czechoslovakian actor1926 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish founder of IKEA1929 - Richard Dysart, American actor1930 - John Astin, American actor 1930 - Rolf Harris, Australian artist, entertainer 1930 - Peter Marshall, game-show host1937 - Warren Beatty, actor/director1940 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer1940 - Jerry Lucas, American basketball player1941 - Wasim Sajjad, former President of Pakistan1945 - Eric Clapton, blues guitarist1949 - Marcia Ball, blues pianist 1949 - Lene Lovich, singer1950 - Robbie Coltrane, actor, comedian1957 - Paul Reiser, actor1962 - MC Hammer, rapper1964 - Tracy Chapman, singer1964 - Ian Ziering, American actor1968 - Donna D'Errico, actress-model 1968 - Céline Dion, Canadian singer1970 - Mark Consuelos, American actor1974 - Secretariat, Triple Crown winning racehorse (d. 1989)1976 - Obadele Thompson, Barbadan athlete1978 - Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player1979 - Norah Jones, musician
Deaths1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury1783 - 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 actor1977 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (b. 1894)1981 - DeWitt Wallace, American publisher1984 - Karl Rahner, German theologian1985 - Harold Peary, American actor, singer1986 - James Cagney, actor (b. 1899)1997 - Jon Stone, American writer, director, producer, co-creator of Sesame Street1999 - Gary Morton, film and television producer2002 - 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 Union2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor2004 - Alistair Cooke, broadcaster 2004 - Michael King, New Zealand historian 2004 - Erick Friedman, American concert violinist, violin professor at Yale University 2004 - Hubert Gregg, BBC broadcaster2004 - Timi Yuro, American singer2005 - 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 observancesRoman Empire - Festival devoted to Salus
External links BBC: On This Day
March 29 - March 31 - February 28 (February 29) - April 30 -- listing of all days
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