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What Happened on March 30th This Day in History

Year Name
2019 Pope Francis visits Morocco.
2018 Israeli Army killed 17 Palestinians and wounded 1,400 in Gaza during Land Day protests.
2017 SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.[13]
2009 Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.
2008 Drolma Kyi arrested by Chinese authorities.
2002 The 2002 Lyon car attack takes place.[8][9][10]
1982 Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
1981 U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
1979 Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament (MP), is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
1976 Israeli-Palestinian conflict: in the first organized response against Israeli policies by a Palestinian collective since 1948, Palestinians create the first Land Day.
1972 Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
1967 Delta Air Lines Flight 9877 crashes at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, killing 19.
1965 Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
1961 The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
1959 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1949 Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
1945 World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna. Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig.
1944 World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
1944 Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.
1940 Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.
1939 The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745 km/h).
1918 Beginning of the bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate.
1912 Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1900 Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover the first clay tablet with hieroglyphic writing in a script later called Linear B.
1899 German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
1885 The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empires.
1870 Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
1867 Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about two cents/acre ($4.19/km2), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
1863 Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
1861 Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium.
1856 The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
1855 Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
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.
1842 Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
1841 The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.
1822 The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
1818 Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.
1815 Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification.
1699 Guru Gobind Singh establishes the Khalsa in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab.
1296 Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
1282 The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
598 Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
Famous People Born on March 30

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Year Name
1942 Ruben Kun, Nauruan lawyer and politician, 14th President of Nauru (d. 2014)
1892 Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d. 1972)
1947 Terje Venaas, Norwegian bassist
1986 Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer
1963 Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, Mongolian journalist and politician, 4th President of Mongolia
1913 Richard Helms, American soldier and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence (d. 2002)
1432 Mehmed the Conqueror, Ottoman sultan (d. 1481)
1746 Francisco Goya, Spanish-French painter and sculptor (d. 1828)
1973 Jan Koller, Czech footballer
1948 Eddie Jordan, Irish racing driver and team owner, founded Jordan Grand Prix
Famous People Deaths On March 30

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Date Name
2003 Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)
1873 Bénédict Morel, Austrian-French psychiatrist and physician (b. 1809)
1969 Lucien Bianchi, Belgian racing driver (b. 1934)
1996 Hugh Falkus, English pilot and author (b. 1917)
2004 Alistair Cooke, English-American journalist and author (b. 1908)
1975 Peter Bamm, German journalist and author (b. 1897)
1984 Karl Rahner, German-Austrian priest and theologian (b. 1904)
1940 Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet Scottish soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (b. 1876)
2015 Helmut Dietl, German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
1472 Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (b. 1435)