March 30 Events |
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March 30th, 2006 (March 30 2006) | Event | Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space. | |
March 30th, 2006 (March 30 2006) | Event | UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law. | |
March 30th, 1997 (March 30 1997) | Event | Five (channel) Begins broadcasting in the UK | |
March 30th, 1982 (March 30 1982) | Event | Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. | |
March 30th, 1981 (March 30 1981) | Event | President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
March 30th, 1979 (March 30 1979) | Event | Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility. | |
March 30th, 1972 (March 30 1972) | Event | Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam. | |
March 30th, 1965 (March 30 1965) | Event | Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others. | |
March 30th, 1961 (March 30 1961) | Event | The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York. | |
March 30th, 1954 (March 30 1954) | Event | Yonge Street subway line opens in Toronto. It is the first subway in Canada. | |
March 30th, 1951 (March 30 1951) | Event | Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. | |
March 30th, 1949 (March 30 1949) | Event | Riot breaks out in Austurvollur square in Reykjavik, when Iceland joined NATO. | |
March 30th, 1945 (March 30 1945) | Event | World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna, Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdansk. | |
March 30th, 1945 (March 30 1945) | Event | World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans. | |
March 30th, 1940 (March 30 1940) | Event | Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking to be the capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei. | An Wang Quotes |
March 30th, 1939 (March 30 1939) | Event | The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets the world airspeed record of 463 mph. | |
March 30th, 1939 (March 30 1939) | Event | First flight of the Australian C.A.C. CA-16 Wirraway. | |
March 30th, 1912 (March 30 1912) | Event | Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate. | |
March 30th, 1910 (March 30 1910) | Event | Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi. | |
March 30th, 1909 (March 30 1909) | Event | The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens. | |
March 30th, 1885 (March 30 1885) | Event | The Battle for Kushka triggers the Pandjeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire. | |
March 30th, 1870 (March 30 1870) | Event | Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction. | |
March 30th, 1867 (March 30 1867) | Event | Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km?), by United States Secretary of State William H. Sewardied in The news media call this Seward s Folly. | |
March 30th, 1863 (March 30 1863) | Event | Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece. | |
March 30th, 1858 (March 30 1858) | Event | Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser. | |
March 30th, 1856 (March 30 1856) | Event | The Treaty of Paris (1856) is signed, ending the Crimean War. | |
March 30th, 1855 (March 30 1855) | Event | Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas"Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature. | |
March 30th, 1844 (March 30 1844) | Event | One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros. | |
March 30th, 1842 (March 30 1842) | Event | Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long. | |
March 30th, 1822 (March 30 1822) | Event | Florida Territory created in the United States. | |
March 30th, 1814 (March 30 1814) | Event | Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris. | |
March 30th, 1814 (March 30 1814) | Event | Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification. | |
March 30th, 1296 (March 30 1296) | Event | Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England. | |
March 30th, 1282 (March 30 1282) | Event | The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers. | |
March 30th, 0240 (March 30 0240) | Event | 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley s Comet. | |