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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.
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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 Sleeswÿk-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 poet (d. 1896)
- 1853 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch 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, President of the Republic of Malta
- 1913 – Richard Helms, director of the American Central Intelligence Agency (d. 2002)
- 1913 – Frankie Laine, American singer
- 1913 – Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
- 1914 – Sonny Boy Williamson, musician
- 1917 – Herbert Anderson, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1919 – McGeorge Bundy, American National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
- 1922 – Turhan Bey, Turkish-Czechoslovakian actor
- 1926 – Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrrepreneur
- 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 and director
- 1940 – Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer
- 1940 – Jerry Lucas, American basketball player
- 1941 – Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan
- 1945 – Eric Clapton, blues guitarist
- 1949 – Marcia Ball, blues pianist
- 1949 – Lene Lovich, singer
- 1950 – Robbie Coltrane, actor and 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
- 1970 – Secretariat, 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
- Roman Empire – Festival devoted to Salus
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