March 30

2024 Calendar

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.

Events

Up to 1900

598 - Balkan campaign: The Avars lift the siege of the Byzantine Empire stronghold of Tomis.
1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin King, Charles I of Naples, 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.
1814 - Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire the unification of Italy into being one country.
1822 – Florida Territory created in the United States.
1841 - The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.
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 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.
1899 - British passenger steamship Stella hits a rock off Guernsey in the English Channel, in thick fog, sinking within eight minutes.

1901 – 2000

1909 – In New York City the Queensboro Bridge connecting Manhattan and Queens is opened to traffic.
1912 – Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1939 - The Henkel He 100 fighter aircraft sets a record airspeed of 745 kilometers per hour (463 miles per hour).
1940 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking to be the capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.
1944 - World War II: Allied bombing raid on Nuremberg.
1944 - World War II: The Allies conduct their most severe bombing raid on Sofia, Bulgaria.
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.
1949 - Riots occur in Reykjavik after the decision of Iceland's government for the country to join NATO.
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 CBGB's in New York City.
1976 - First Land Day protests in Israel and Palestine.
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.
1982 - Space Shuttle program: The STS-3 mission ends, with the landing of the Space Shuttle Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, United States.
1987 – One of Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings is bought by Japanese insurance magnate Yasuo Goto for $39.85 million.

From 2001

2001 - The result of the People's Republic of China's census is announced. The population at this time is estimated at 1,285,830,000.
2002 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother, dies at Windsor Castle, aged 101, just seven weeks after her daughter, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.
2006 – The United Kingdom Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.
2006 – Marcos Pontes becomes the first Brazilian in space on board the Soyuz TMA-8 aircraft, to the International Space Station.
2008 – The controversial 2008 Zimbabwean Presidential election is held.
2017 - SpaceX conducts the world's first re-flight of an orbital-class rocket.

Births

Deaths

Up to 1900

116 - Quirinus of Neuss, Roman martyr and saint
365 – Jin Aidi, Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (b. 341)
987 - Arnulf II of Flanders
1202 - Joachim Fiore, Italian mystic and theologian (b. 1135)
1472 - Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (b. 1435)
1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury
1526 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)
1559 – Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)
1587 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)
1764 – Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695)
1783 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
1804 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, French aristocrat and soldier (b. 1718)
1830 – Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (b. 1763)
1864 - Louis Schindelmeisser, German clarinetist, composer and conductor (b. 1811)
1873 - Benedict Morel, French physicist (b. 1809)
1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)
1886 - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, 6th Premier of Quebec (b. 1838)
1896 – Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek Prime Minister (b. 1832)

1901 – 2000

1912 – Karl May, German writer (b. 1842)
1914 – John Henry Poynting, English physicist (b. 1852)
1925 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (b. 1861)
1935 - Romanos Melikian, Armenian composer (b. 1873)
1939 - Richard Steiff, German businessman and teddy bear creator (b. 1877)
1943 - Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (b. 1921)
1943 - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)
1949 – Friedrich Bergius, German chemist (b. 1884)
1950 – Léon Blum, Prime Minister of France (b. 1872)
1952 – Jigme Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (b. 1905)
1954 - Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director (b. 1881)
1955 - Harl McDonald, American pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1899)
1959 - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)
1959 - Riccardo Zandla, Italian-Slovenian poet (b. 1875)
1961 - Philibert Jacques Melotte, British astronomer (b. 1880)
1963 - Alexander Gauk, Russian conductor and composer (b. 1893)
1964 - Nella Larsen, American writer (b. 1891)
1965 – Philip Showalter Hench, American physician (b. 1896)
1966 - Erwin Piscator, German director and producer (b. 1893)
1967 - Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
1968 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)
1970 – Heinrich Bruening, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)
1973 - Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish aristocrat and aviator (b. 1903)
1977 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)
1979 - Airey Neave, English soldier and politician (b. 1916)
1984 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (b. 1904)
1985 - Harold Peary, American actor and singer (b. 1908)
1986 – James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
1988 - Edgar Faure, Prime Minister of France (b. 1908)
1990 - Harry Peary, Australian-American union leader (b. 1901)
2000 – Rudolf Kirchschlaeger, President of Austria (b. 1915)

From 2001

2002 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
2003 – Valentin Pavlov, Soviet politician (b. 1937)
2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)
2005 – Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)
2008 – Dith Pran, Cambodian photojournalist (b. 1942)
2010 – Martin Sandberger, German military officer (b. 1911)
2011 – Lyudmila Gurchenko, Russian actress and singer (b. 1935)
2013 - Phil Ramone, South African-American record producer (b. 1934)
2013 - Valeri Zolotuchin, Russian actor (b. 1941)
2014 - Phuntsok Wangyal, Tibetan-Chinese politician (b. 1922)
2014 - Kate O'Mara, British actress (b. 1939)
2014 - Jan de Graaff, Dutch television journalist (b. 1943)
2015 - Helmut Dietl, German movie director (b. 1944)
2015 - Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer (b. 1921)
2015 - Philip A. Potter, Dominican Methodist church leader (b. 1921)
2016 - Anne Aasheim, Norwegian newspaper editor (b. 1962)
2016 - Bernard Lamarre, Canadian engineer and businessman (b. 1931)
2016 - Bill Rosendahl, American politician (b. 1945)
2016 - Gianmaria Testa, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1958)
2016 - Shirley Hufstedler, American lawyer and judge (b. 1925)
2016 - Khuzaima Qutbuddin, Indian Islamic leader (b. 1940)
2017 - Richard Bustillo, American martial arts instructor (b. 1942)
2017 - Donald Harvey, American serial killer (b. 1952)
2018 - André Bo-Boliko Lokonga, 9th Prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1934)
2018 - Bill Maynard, English actor (b. 1928)
2020 - Bill Withers, American musician (b. 1938)

Observances

Land Day (Palestine)
National Doctors' Day (United States)

Events

Up to 1900

1901 – 2000

From 2001

Births

Up to 1900

1901 – 1950

1951 – 1975

From 1976

Deaths

Up to 1900

1901 – 2000

From 2001

Observances