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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
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 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 - 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.
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)
1857 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
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. 1946)
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)
1926 - Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA
1930 - John Astin
1930 - Rolf Harris, artist, entertainer
1930 - Peter Marshall, game show host
1937 - Warren Beatty, actor/director
1940 - Astrud Gilberto, singer
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
1968 - Donna D'Errico, Actress, and Model
1968 - Céline Dion, Canadian singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner
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)
1947 - Arthur Machen, author (b. 1863)
1966 - Maxfield Parrish, artist (b. 1870)
1977 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (b. 1894)
1986 - James Cagney, actor (b. 1899)
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
2004 - Alistair Cooke, broadcaster
Holidays and observances
Roman Empire - Festival devoted to Salus
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