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Information about March 30


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


   * 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 SleeswŘk-Holstein-Sonderburg-GlŸcksburg


     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 - CŽline 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

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