Saturday, March 31, 2018

TODAY IN HISTORY ― MARCH 30

March 30 is the 89th day of the year (90th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 276 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).

NATIONAL I AM IN CONTROL DAY 

1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States.  


1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.


1856 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War


1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The purchase was priginally know by its opponents as "Seward's Folly."

1870 – Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.



1939 – The German Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745km/h).  

1939 – Detective Comics Vol. 1 #27 is released, introducing Batman.

1940 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.

1944 – World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.

1949 – A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.

1964 – Jeopardy!, hosted by Art Fleming, debuts and runs until January 3, 1975. The third re-incarnation has been running since September 10, 1984. Over 7000 episodes have been aired. 


1972 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.

1979 – Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.

1981 – President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. Another two people are wounded at the same time.

2009 – Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.


BORN TODAY

1853 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch-French painter and illustrator (d. 1890)

1863 – Mary Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (d. 1930)

1914 – Sonny Boy Williamson I, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 1948)

1950 – Janet Browne, English-American historian and academic

From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted. 

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