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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

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 Sleeswÿk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg 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.
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.