Famous Events For March 30 – Today In History

March 30: Today in History – Historical Events

Early Centuries – March 30  Historic Events – Before the 1700s

1. 30^th March 1282: The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
2. 30^th March 1456: Prince Louis of Bourbon was elected bishop of Liege.
3. 30^th March 1533: Thomas Cranmer becomes the archbishop of Canterbury.
4. 30^th March 1533: Henry VIII divorced Catherine of Aragon, his first wife.
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   18th Century – What Happened on March 30 – The 1700s

5. 30^th March 1778: Philosopher and playwright Voltaire was today crowned with a laurel wreath.
6. 30^th March 1796: Construction of the Hepadecagon was discovered by German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss
   

   19th Century – March 30 This Day That Year – The 1800s

7. 30^th March 1814: The allied European nations against Napoleon marched into Paris.
8. 30^th March 1822: Florida, today, became a U.S. territory.
9. 30^th March 1842: Dr. Crawford W. Long, today, performed his first surgery while his patient was anesthetized by ether.
10. 30^th March 1855: The territory of Kansas was invaded today by about 5000 “Border Ruffians” from western Missouri and forced the election of a pro-slavery legislature. This was the first election in Kansas.
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11. 30^th March 1856: Russia today signed the Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War.
12. 30^th March 1858: The pencil attached to the eraser was today patented by Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia.
13. 30^th March 1867: The U.S. today, purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.
14. 30^th March 1870: Today Texas was readmitted to the Union.
15. 30^th March 1870: Florida’s territorial government was established.
16. 30^th March 1870: The U.S. Congress today passed the 15^th amendment, which guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race.
17. 30^th March 1885: The Battle of Kushka triggered the Pandjeh Incident which nearly gave rise to war between the British Empire and the Russian Empire.
18. 30^th March 1889: The first U.S. golf course (Yonkers NY) was opened today. It was opened by John T Reid.
19. 30^th March 1895: The Oxford and Cambridge boat race was filmed by British inventor Birt Acres.
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    20th Century – Important Events On This Day March 30th – The 1900s

20. 30^th March 1900: The Dutch 2^nd Chamber accepts the Compulsory Education Law.
21. 30^th March 1903: The U.S. today deployed troops to Santo Domingo to protect American interests in the wake of Revolutionary activity in the Dominican Republic.
22. 30^th March 1905: President Theodore Roosevelt of the U.S. was chosen to mediate in the Russo-Japanese peace talks.
23. 30^th March 1909: Seminole Indians today revolted against meager pay for government jobs in Oklahoma.
24. 30^th March 1909: The Queensboro Bridge was opened today in New York. It linked Manhattan and Queens. It was the first double Decker Bridge.
25. 30^th March 1910: The Mississippi Legislature today founded The University of Southern Mississippi.
26. 30^th March 1911: Today marks the completion of the Lötchberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m).
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27. 30^th March 1912: French Protectorate in Morocco was established.
28. 30^th March 1916: Pancho Villa killed 172 at the Guerrero garrison in Mexico today.
29. 30^th March 1919: Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi announces resistance against the Rowlatt Act.
30. 30^th March 1919: Belgian Army occupies Dusseldorf.
31. 30^th March 1923: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority was formed at Howard University in 1920, incorporates.
32. 30^th March 1925: Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin supports the rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians.
33. 30^th March 1935: Newfoundland changed time to three and a half hours W of Greenwich, repeats 44 seconds.
34. 30^th March 1936: Britain today announced a naval construction program for building 38 warships.
35. 30^th March 1939: A world airspeed record of 463 mph was set by the Heinkel He 100 fighter today.
36. 30^th March 1940: The Japanese today set up a puppet government called Manchuko in Nanking, China.
37. 30^th March 1941: The first offensive against the British forces in Libya began today by the German Afrika Korps led by General Erwin Rommel.
38. 30^th March 1942: SS today murdered 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp.
39. 30^th March 1942: The first RSHA transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau.
40. 30^th March 1943: Sejenane was today recaptured by the British 1^st
41. 30^th March 1944: Palau near the Philippines was today attacked by the U.S. fleet.
42. 30^th March 1944: 781 British bombers attack Nuremberg.
43. 30^th March 1945: During World War II, a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.
44. 30^th March 1945: In World War II Austria was today invaded by the U.S.S.R.
45. 30^th March 1945: 289 anti-fascists were murdered by Nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund.
46. 30^th March 1946: The Allies today seized 1,000 Nazis, who were attempting to revive the Nazi party in Frankfurt.
47. 30^th March 1947: Lord Mountbatten today arrived in India as its new Viceroy.
48. 30^th March 1950: The invention of a phototransistor was announced today.
49. 30^th March 1950: Senator Joe McCarthy was today denounced by U.S. President Truman as a saboteur of U.S. foreign policy.
50. 30^th March 1953: Physicist Albert Einstein announces revised unified field theory.
51. 30^th March 1956: USSR performs nuclear test.
52. 30^th March 1957: A friendship treaty was signed by Tunisia and Morocco in Rabat today.
53. 30^th March 1958: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater gave its first performance today.
54. 30^th March 1959: Dalai Lama flees China. He is granted political asylum in India.
55. 30^th March 1961: The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York.
56. 30^th March 1963: France performs an underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria.
57. 30^th March 1964: “Jeopardy” debuted today on NBC-TV.
58. 30^th March 1964: Owing to injuries suffered in a fall, John Glen withdrew from the Ohio race for U.S. Senate.
59. 30^th March 1965: During the Vietnam War a car bomb exploded in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 people.
60. 30^th March 1968: General Ludvik Svoboda was elected as President of Czechoslovakia.
61. 30^th March 1969: Loyalists today bombed water and electricity installations in Northern Ireland and hoped that the attack would be blamed on the IRA and elements of the civil rights movement which was demanding an end to discrimination against Catholics.
62. 30^th March 1970: “Another World – Somerset” made its debut on NBC-TV today.
63. 30^th March 1972: The British government established direct rule over North Ireland today.
64. 30^th March 1972: The Eastertide Offensive began when North Vietnam troops crossed over to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in the northern part of South Vietnam.
65. 30^th March 1972: The United States today performed a nuclear test at its Nevada test site.
66. 30^th March 1973: Ellsworth Bunker today resigned as US ambassador to South Vietnam.
67. 30^th March 1975: South Vietnamese soldiers mob rescue jets in desperation as the North Vietnamese forces moved toward Saigon.
68. 30^th March 1976: Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation.
69. 30^th March 1978: The British Conservative party, in its bid to win the next general elections, has recruited a major advertising agency.
70. 30^th March 1979: The British conservative MP and the shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Airey Neave was killed in a car bomb as he left the House of Commons car park.
71. 30^th March 1981: President Ronald Regan of the U.S. was today shot at and wounded in Washington DC by John W. Hinckley Jr. A couple of police officers and Press Secretary James Brady were also wounded.
72. 30^th March 1982: Space shuttle Columbia today completed its third longest test flight after 8 days in space.
73. 30^th March 1983: New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) begins trading in crude oil future.
74. 30^th March 1983: USSR today performed a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR.
75. 30^th March 1984: The U.S. today, ended its participation in a multinational peace force in Lebanon.
76. 30^th March 1987: Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” was today bought for $ 39.85 million.
77. 30^th March 1991: Last issue of Dutch Newspaper “Vr”e Folk” (Free People).
78. 30^th March 1992: P.J. Patterson today resigned as the sixth PM of Jamaica.
79. 30^th March 1992: CBS TV premieres overnight news program “Up To The Minute”.
80. 30^th March 1993: Two Serb militia men were today sentenced to death in Sarajevo, for war crimes committed in Bosnia.
81. 30^th March 1994: The Serbs and the Croats today signed a cease-fire to end their war in Croatia. The Bosnian Muslims and Serbs continued to fight each other.
82. 30^th March 1997: Five (channel) Begins broadcasting in the UK.
83. 30^th March 1998: in a $570 million deal, Rolls-Royce was today purchased by BMW.
84. 30^th March 1999: In a landmark judgment, a jury in Portland, Oregon, ordered Philip Morris to pay $81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer. He was smoking Marlboros for four decades.

    21st Century – March 30 This Day In History – The 2000s

85. 30^th March 2002: In the Southern Philippines, an unmanned U.S. spy plane crashed at sea.
86. 30^th March 2002: Islamic militants today set off several grenades at a temple in Kashmir. Four civilians, four policemen, and two tackers were killed while 20 others were injured.
87. 30^th March 2006: Iran was given 30 days to return to negotiations on its nuclear program. The talks in Berlin reinforced the deadline set by the U.N. Security Council which was urging Iran to halt uranium enrichment.
88. 30^th March 2006: Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space.
89. 30^th March 2006: UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.
90. 30^th March 2007: The offices of a temporary employment agency in Baltimore as well as other places that were contracting workers were raided by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and 69 people who could not establish that they had legal permission to work in the US.
91. 30^th March 2008: The Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered his Mehdi Army militia to withdraw from the streets of Basra and other Cities. A government spokesperson of the Iraqi government said that the move is positive and responsive.
92. 30^th March 2008: The United States and the European Union have agreed to a new transatlantic economic partnership in Washington. This will harmonize the continent’s regulatory standards and provide a basis for a single U.S.-EU. market, reduce fares, and boost traffic on transatlantic flights.
93. 30^th March 2009: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey today confirmed that the new World Trade Center building would be officially known by its legal name of “One World Trade Center”.
94. 30^th March 2010: The Obama administration proposed to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and the North Coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling. The proposal ends the long-standing moratorium on oil exploration along the East Coast from the northern tip of Delaware to the central coast of Florida. s
95. 30^th March 2010: Suicide bombing, believed to have been carried out by female suicide bombers killed at least 38 people and injured 60 others. No group has claimed responsibility.
96. 30^th March 2011: Hundreds of Inca artifacts, which had been taken from the ancient site of Machu Picchu nearly a hundred years back and were housed at Yale University, were returned to Peru. It was welcomed back into Peru in a lavish ceremony.
97. 30^th March 2012: In a tough austerity measure, the Spanish Government cuts 27 billion Euros from its budget
98. 30^th March 2012: Japan today stated that if North Korea launches a rocket in April and it flies into Japan’s territory, the country will not hesitate to shoot it down. South Korea had also made a similar statement earlier in the week.
99. 30^th March 2013: North Korea announced that it would enter a “state of war” with neighboring South Korea. The country had been making nearly continuous threats to South Korea and the United States since the sanctions imposed on it following a nuclear test.
100. 30^th March 2014: Brazilian security forces have occupied the Mare Favela, a dangerous slum near the Rio Airport ahead of the country’s hosting of the World Cup. It was considered a hot spot for drug trafficking and raids in the area turned up a large number of weapons.

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