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March 30

March 30 is the 89thth day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap years). There are 276 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 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).
• 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 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 - Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
• 1912 - France establishes a protectorate over Morocco.
• 1940 - Sino-Japanese War: Japan declared 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 about five years of construction, in Toronto.
• 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.
• 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. 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 (d. 1828)
• 1798 - Luise Hensel, poet (d. 1876)
• 1820 - Anna Sewell, author (d. 1878)
• 1844 - Paul Verlaine, lyric poet (d. 1896)
• 1853 - Vincent van Gogh, painter (d. 1890)
• 1879 - Coen de Koning, speed skater (d. 1954)
• 1880 - Sean O'Casey, dramatist (d. 1964)
• 1895 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1975)
• 1903 - Countee Cullen, poet (d. 1906)
• 1913 - Richard Helms, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (d. 2002)
• 1913 - Frankie Laine, singer
• 1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson, musician
• 1919 - McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
• 1930 - John Astin, actor
• 1937 - Warren Beatty, actor/director
• 1940 - Astrud Gilberto, singer
• 1941 - Wasim Sajjad, former President of Pakistan
• 1945 - Eric Clapton, blues guitarist
• 1949 - Lene Lovich, singer
• 1950 - Robbie Coltrane, actor, comedian
• 1957 - Paul Reiser, actor
• 1962 - MC Hammer, rapper
• 1964 - Tracy Chapman, singer
• 1968 - Céline Dion, singer
• 1970 - Secretariat, Triple Crown-winning race horse (d. 1989)
• 1976 - Obadele Thompson, athlete from Barbados
• 1979 - Norah Jones, musician

Deaths

• 1783 - William Hunter (anatomist) (b. 1718)
• 1842 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, painter (b. 1755)
• 1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)

• 1986 - James Cagney, actor (b. 1899)
• 1947 - Arthur Machen, author (b. 1863)
• 1977 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (b. 1894)
• 2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
• 2003 - Rudolf Walter Leonhardt, German journalist
• 2004 - Alistair Cooke, broadcaster

Holidays and observances

• Roman Empire - Festival devoted to Salus

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