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March 30

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

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
1822 - Florida becomes a United States territory[?].
1842 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation (Dr. Crawford Long[?] performed the operation and ether was used).
1855 - "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.
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.
1964 - The game show Jeopardy! debuts on television.
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 a deranged drifter named John Hinckley, Jr. 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 (+ 1828)
1798 - Luise Hensel[?], poet (+ 1876)
1811 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, chemist, inventor: Bunsen burner (+ 1899)
1844 - Paul Verlaine, lyric poet (+ 1896)
1853 - Vincent van Gogh, painter (+ 1890)
1879 - Coen de Koning, speed skater (+ 1954)
1880 - Sean O'Casey[?], dramatist (+ 1964)
1895 - Nikolai Bulganin[?], Premier of the Soviet Union[?] (+ 1975)
1913 - Richard Helms, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (+ 2002)
1913 - Frankie Laine[?], singer
1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson[?], musician
1919 - McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor (+ 1996)
1930 - John Astin[?], actor
1937 - Warren Beatty, actor/director
1940 - Astrud Gilberto[?], singer
1945 - Eric Clapton, blues guitarist
1949 - Lene Lovich, singer
1950 - Robbie Coltrane, actor, comedian
1957 - Paul Reiser, actor
1964 - Tracy Chapman, singer
1968 - Céline Dion, singer
1979 - Norah Jones, musician

Deaths

1842 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, painter
1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher
1894 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer
1912 - Karl May, author
1986 - James Cagney, actor
1947 - Arthur Machen, author
2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom

Holidays and observances

Roman Empire - Festival devoted to Salus