March 30

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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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1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
1296 - Edward I storms Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking the then-Scottish border town, slaughtering almost everyone, even those fleeing to the churches.
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 by Dr. Crawford Long.
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; Alger Hiss congratulated in Moscow for his part in bringing about the Western betrayal at the Yalta Conference.
1951 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1954 - The first subway in Canada opens after five years of construction, in Toronto.
1961 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
1962 - Jack Paar hosts 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 the Performance Studio 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 - One of Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings is bought by Japanese insurance magnate Yasuo Goto for $39.85 million.
2003 - Under cover of darkness, Mayor Richard M. Daley destroys Meigs Field, a general aviation airport in downtown Chicago, Illinois, without giving the required notice to the FAA.

Births

1135 - Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (d. 1204)
1326 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)
1432 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1481)
1640 - John Trenchard, English politican (d. 1695)
1746 - Francisco Goya, Spanish painter and engraver (d. 1828)
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)
1864 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (d. 1943)
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, American philanthropist
1903 - Countee Cullen, American poet (d. 1946)
1913 - Censu Tabone, President of Malta
1913 - Richard Helms, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (d. 2002)
1913 - Frankie Laine, American singer
1913 - Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d. 1948)
1919 - McGeorge Bundy, American National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
1922 - Turhan Bey, Turkish-Czechoslovakian actor
1923 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986)
1926 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrrepreneur
1929 - Richard Dysart, American actor
1930 - John Astin, American actor
1930 - Rolf Harris, Australian artist and entertainer
1930 - Peter Marshall, American game-show host
1932 - Ted Morgan, Swiss-born writer, journalist, and biographer
1937 - Warren Beatty, American actor and director
1940 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer
1940 - Jerry Lucas, American basketball player
1941 - Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan
1945 - Eric Clapton, American guitarist
1949 - Lene Lovich, American singer
1950 - Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian
1952 - Peter Knights, Australian rules footballer and coach
1956 - Bill Butler, Scottish politician
1957 - Paul Reiser, American actor
1958 - Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor
1962 - MC Hammer, American rapper
1964 - Tracy Chapman, American singer
1964 - Ian Ziering, American actor
1968 - Donna D'Errico, American actress and model
1968 - Céline Dion, Canadian singer
1970 - Mark Consuelos, American actor
1970 - Secretariat, American racehorse (d. 1989)
1976 - Obadele Thompson, Barbadan athlete
1978 - Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player
1979 - Norah Jones, American pianist
1980 - Paul Wall, American rapper
1984 - Anna Nalick, American singer and songwriter

Deaths

1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury
1526 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)
1540 - Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469)
1559 - Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)
1587 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)
1662 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)
1764 - Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695)
1783 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
1840 - Beau Brummell, English celebrity and dandy (b. 1778)
1842 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755)
1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)
1912 - Karl May, German author (b. 1842)
1947 - Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (b. 1863)
1949 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
1959 - Daniil Andreev, Russian poet, writer, Christian mystic (b. 1906)
1966 - Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b. 1870)
1968 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)
1977 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (b. 1894)
1981 - DeWitt Wallace, American publisher (b. 1889)
1984 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (b. 1904)
1985 - Harold Peary, American actor and singer (heart attack) (b. 1908)
1986 - James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
1999 - Gary Morton, American film and television producer (b. 1924)
2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
2003 - Valentin Pavlov, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1937)
2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)
2004 - Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (b. 1908)
2004 - Michael King, New Zealand historian (b. 1945)
2004 - Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster (b. 1914)
2004 - Timi Yuro, American singer (b. 1940)
2005 - Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)
2005 - Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)
2005 - Milton Green, American athlete (b. 1913)
2005 - Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (b. 1919)
2005 - O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist (b. 1930)