This Day in History for 30th March

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 148

240 BC - 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
804 - Liudger becomes 1st bishop of Munster
988 - Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders
1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
1296 - Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
1422 - Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple
1456 - Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege
1474 - Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland
1492 - King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree expelling Jews from Spain
1533 - Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1603 - Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish
1778 - Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris after defeating Napoleon.
1814 - Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification.
1822 - Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory
1842 - Ether used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Ga)
1856 - Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War
1858 - Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Phila)
1863 - Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg chosen as king George of Greece
Philosophe Voltaire 1864 - Skirmish at Mount Elba, Arkansas
1865 - -4] Battle at 5 Forks Virginia
1866 - Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride), premieres
1867 - US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre - Seward's Folly)
1870 - 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
1870 - Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union
1870 - Florida territorial government established.
1885 - The Battle for Kushka triggers the Pandjeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.
1889 - John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers, NY)
1893 - Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain
1895 - British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford and Cambridge boat race
1900 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law
1909 - Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens
1910 - Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi.
1911 - Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed
1912 - French protectorate in Morocco established
1916 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens (NHA) beat Portland Rosebuds (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1918 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1919 - Belgian Army occupies Dusseldorf
Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi 1919 - Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act
1919 - Paul Claudel's "Tête d'Or," premieres in Paris
1922 - KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions
1922 - WWL-AM in New Orleans LA begins radio transmissions
1923 - Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard U in 1920, incorporates
1925 - Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians
1925 - Stanley Cup: Vict Cougars (WCHL) beat Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1
1930 - Babberich-H soccer team forms
1935 - Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hrs W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec
1939 - The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets the world airspeed record of 463 mph.
1939 - First flight of the Australian C.A.C. CA-16 Wirraway.
1940 - 2nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana U beats Kansas 60-42
1941 - German counter offensive in North-Africa
1942 - 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau
1942 - SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
1943 - 5th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: U of Wyoming beat Georgetown 46-34
1943 - British 1st army recaptures Sejenane
1943 - Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!," premieres in NYC
1944 - 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg
1945 - 289 anti-fascists murdered by nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund
1945 - USSR invades Austria during WW II
1945 - World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.
1946 - "St Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 113 performances
1946 - Australia beats NZ in cricket at 3 30pm on 2nd day
1946 - Last Test Cricket appearance of Bill O'Reilly (5-14 & 3-19)
1949 - Riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joined NATO.
1950 - Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
1952 - 6th Tony Awards: Fourposter & King & I win
1952 - Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
1953 - Einstein announces revised unified field theory
1954 - Test Cricket debut of Garry Sobers v England at Kingston
Actress Grace Kelly 1955 - 27th Academy Awards - "On the Waterfront," Brando & Grace Kelly win
1956 - USSR performs nuclear test
1957 - 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony
1959 - WNED TV channel 17 in Buffalo, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 m)
1961 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
1963 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1964 - Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race
1965 - Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
1966 - Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS
1967 - Cover picture of Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's" is photographed
1968 - General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia
1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Malabar Golf Invitational
1970 - "Applause" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 900 performances
1970 - Miles Davis Bitches Brew released
Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand 1970 - Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
1970 - Strouse, Adams, Comden & Green's musical "Applause," premieres in NYC
1970 - USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
1972 - "Funny Thing Happened..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 perfs
1972 - North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam
1975 - Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital
1976 - Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
1978 - "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 perfs
1979 - 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.
1980 - Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God," premieres in NYC
1980 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1981 - 43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats North Carolina 63-50
1981 - Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley III
1982 - 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands, NM

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 234

1135 - Maimonedes, philosopher (d. 1204)
1326 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)
1432 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1481)
1640 - John Trenchard, English politician (d. 1695)
1674 - Jethro Tull, agricultural writer (Basildon), baptised
1681 - Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver
1687 - Johann Balthasar Freisslich, composer
1697 - John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor
1719 - John Hawkins, England, wrote 1st history of music
1727 - Tommaso MFS Traetta, Ital's opera composer/band leader (Farnace)
1746 - Francisco Jose de Goya, Fuendetodos Spain, painter/etcher (Naked Maja)
1750 - John Stafford Smith, composer
1772 - Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer
1790 - Joseph Smith, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877
1804 - Salomon Sulzer, composer
1805 - Adrien de La Fage, composer
1811 - Angelo Catelani, Italian composer/conductor
1815 - Wincenty Studzinski, composer
1820 - Anna Sewell, British author (d. 1878)
English Politician John Trenchard (1640) 1823 - Joseph Farmer Knipe, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1824 - Innis Newton Palmer, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1825 - Samuel Bell Maxey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1830 - Auguste Tolbecque, composer
1830 - Julius F A Bahnsen, German philosopher
1835 - Bernhard Scholz, composer
1836 - Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German industrialist/politician
1842 - John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher
1844 - Paul M Verlaine, France, lyric poet (Sagesse Bonbeur)
1853 - Vincent van Gogh, Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, artist, painter and pioneer of Expressionism (The Potato Eaters, Irises)
1857 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
1864 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist/politician
1865 - Heinrich Rubens, German physicist
1872 - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer
1876 - Clifford Whittingham Beers, US, mental hygiene pioneer
1879 - Coen de Koning, Dutch ice skater (d. 1954)
1880 - Sean O'Casey, Ireland, playwright (Playboy of the Western World)
1882 - Melanie Klein, Austrian/British psycho analysis
1883 - Jo Davidson, US, sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman)
1886 - Stanislaw Lesniewski, Poland, logician/mathematician
1887 - Albert P Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great)
1888 - Anna Q Nilsson, Sweden, actress (Shenandoah, Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1891 - Jan B Cammans, Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov)
1892 - Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian
1892 - Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d. 1960)
1892 - Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d. 1972)
1894 - Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin)
1895 - Jean Giono, French writer (World Chant)
1898 - Heinz Risse, writer
1898 - Joyce Carey, English actress (Black Windmill)
1899 - Irving Thalberg, US producer (MGM)
1899 - Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, well known Bengali writer (d. 1970)
1902 - Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (d. 2007)
1902 - Ted Heath, British musician and band leader (d. 1969)
1903 - Countee Cullen, US poet (Color, Ballad of the Brown Girl)
1903 - Sol C Siegel, US, producer (High Society, Gentlemen prefer blondes)
1903 - Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (d. 1984)
1904 - Akarova, [Marguerite Acarin], Belgian dancer (Les Biches)
1904 - Ripper Collins, baseball player (d. 1970)
1905 - Mikio Oda, Japan, triple jumper (Olympic-gold-1928)
1905 - Albert Pierrepoint, English executioner (d. 1992)
1907 - Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (d. 1994)
1908 - Camille Schmit, composer
1908 - Kurt Bruggemann, composer
1908 - Leslie O'Brien "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith, Chinese cricket bowler
1909 - Ernst Gombrich, OM/FBA/director (Warburg Institute)
1910 - Józef Marcinkiewicz, mathematician (d. 1940)
1911 - Dennis Gomm, musician
1912 - Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar/naturalist
1912 - Jack Cowie, cricketer (successful NZ fast bowler either side of WWII)
1913 - Frankie Laine, Chicago Ill, actor (Frankie Laine Show, Rawhide)
1913 - Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre producer
1913 - Richard Helms, CIA head (1966-73)
1913 - Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
1913 - Censu Tabone, President of Malta, (d. 2012)
1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson, [John Lee], blues musician (Down & Out Blues)
1917 - Els Aarne, composer
1917 - Herbert Anderson, actor (Henry-Dennis The Menace)
1917 - Rudolf Bruci, composer
1918 - John Gray, FRS/marine biologist
1918 - Joseph Allen Jr, Boston MA, actor (Death of a Champion)
1919 - McGeorge Bundy, Boston, national security adviser (JFK)
1919 - Ramsay Ames, actress (G-Men Never Forget, Ali Baba & 40 Thieves)
1920 - Turhan Bey, Vienna Austria, actor (Dragon Seed, Ali Baba & 40 Thieves)
1921 - Countess of Sutherland, English great land owner/multi-millionaire
1921 - Kan Ishii, composer
1921 - Oto Ferenczy, composer
1922 - German Germanovich Galinin, composer
1922 - J F Coates, naval architect
1922 - Peter Jona Korn, composer
1922 - Turhan Bey, Turkish actor
1923 - Herbert Asmodi, writer
1923 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986)
1924 - Milko Kelemen, composer
1925 - Ivo Malek, composer
1925 - John Wells, MP
1926 - John Heddle Nash, singer
1926 - Lord Rayner
1926 - Ray McAnally, Ireland, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State, Sicilian)
1926 - Werner Torkanowsky, Berlin Germany, conductor (New Orleans Symph)
1927 - Lord Armstrong of Ilminster

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

2007 - "Little Big Town" singer-guitarist Phillip Sweet (33) weds Rebecca Arthur at Cedarvine Manor in Lebanon, Tennessee

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

2004 - "Alias" actress Jennifer Garner (30) divorces actor Scott Foley (30) due to irreconcilable differences after nearly 4 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 110

988 - Arnulf II, count of Flanders (965-988), dies
1202 - Joachim Van Fiore, Italian religious founder (Joachimism), dies
1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury
1526 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)
1540 - Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469)
1547 - Francois I of Valois-Angouleme, King of France (1515-47), dies at 52
1559 - Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)
1587 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)
1662 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)
1707 - Vauban, French architect (b. 1633)
1764 - Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist/composer, dies at 68
1783 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
1804 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b. 1718)
1840 - George (Beau) Brummell, Dandy, dies
1842 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755)
1864 - Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer, dies 52
1871 - W F A A Louisa/Lovisa, queen of Sweden/Norway, dies at 42
1872 - Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer, dies at 76
1873 - Benedict Augustin Morel, psychologist (dementia praecox), dies at 63
1875 - Marie Moke Pleyel, composer, dies at 63
1879 - David van der Kellen, Dutch coin engraver, dies at 74
1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter/author, dies at 63
1884 - Hans Hampel, composer, dies at 61
1886 - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, French Canadian politician (b. 1838)
1896 - Charilaos Trikoupis, seven times prime-minister of Greece (b. 1832)
1906 - Betsy Perk, [Christina E], journalist/writer/feminist, dies at 73
1912 - Karl May, German writer (Winnetou/Kara Ben Nemsi), dies at 70
1925 - Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (anthroposophy), dies at 64
1926 - Feliks E Dzerzjinski, Lithuanian organizer (KGB), dies at 48
1935 - Romanos Hovakimi Melik'yan, composer, dies at 51
1936 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (b. 1895)
1942 - Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson premier Valois), dies at 81
1943 - Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (b. 1921)
1943 - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)
1945 - Karel Moor, composer, dies at 71
1946 - John S S P V Gort, viscount of Limerick/Hamsterley, dies at 59
1949 - Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
1949 - Friedrich C R Bergius, chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64
1950 - Leon Blum, French premier (People's Front Government), dies at 77
1953 - Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar, composer, dies at 75
1959 - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)
1959 - Riccardo Zanella, president of Free State of Fiume (b. 1875)
1960 - Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter, dies at 90
1960 - Joseph Haas, German opera composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81
1961 - P J Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies
1963 - Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk, composer, dies at 69
1964 - Willem CN Andriessen, Dutch composer/pianist (Beethoven), dies at 76
1965 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
1966 - Erwin Piscator, German director (Plebeians test rebellion), dies at 72
1966 - Maxfield Parrish, US painter, dies at 95
1966 - Newbold Morris, American politician (b. 1902)
1967 - Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
1968 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)
1969 - Lucien Bianchi, Belgian auto racer, dies at 34
1970 - Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)
1971 - Selmer Jackson, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 82
1972 - Gabriel Heather, US news anchor, dies at 81
1972 - Peter Whitney, actor (Rough Riders), dies at 55
1972 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (b. 1890)
1974 - Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Reborn in Freedom), dies at 79
1975 - Peter Bamm, writer, dies
1976 - Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99
1977 - Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer, dies at 88
1977 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)
1978 - George Paine, lefty cricket spinner (for England in WI 1935), dies
1978 - Harold Gimblett, cricketer (Batted in 3 Tests for England), suicide
1979 - Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb
1981 - Dewitt Wallace, US founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91
1981 - Noel Harford, cricketer (8 Tests for NZ 1955-58), dies
1984 - Peter Yarrall, strongest Englishman/weighed 826 lb (374.7 kg), dies
1985 - Harold Peary, actor (Herb-Blondie, Willy), dies of heart attack at 76
1986 - James Cagney, actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies in NY at 86
1986 - John Ciardi, US poet/interpreter (Dante), dies at 69
1988 - Edgar Faure, French politician (b. 1908)
1989 - Dort Clark, actor (In Harm's Way), dies
1991 - Jan Willem Hofstra, Dutch actor/writer (Friends of My Friends), dies
1992 - Art Hannes, announcer, dies of a respiratory ailment at 72
1992 - Luigi De Laurentiis, Italian producer (Toto, Macaroni), dies
1992 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (b. 1919)
1993 - Jeremy Siegrist, actor (Adv of Darly & Samy), dies hiking at 20
1993 - Richard C Diebenkorn Jr, US painter (Ocean Park Paintings), dies at 70
1994 - Albert Goldman, rock biographer (Elvis, John Lennon), dies at 66
1994 - Sid Weiss, bassist, dies at 79
1995 - Graham Anthony Richard Lock, cricketer, dies at 65
1995 - Paul A Rothchild, record producer, dies at 59
1995 - Rozelle Claxton, pianist/arranger, dies at 82
1995 - Tony Lock, cricketer (174 wickets for England), dies
1996 - Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist, dies at 78
1996 - Ryoei Saito, businessman, dies at 79
1999 - Gary Morton, American film and television producer (b. 1924)
Consort of George VI & mother of Queen Elizabeth II Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (2002) 2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom, dies at 101
2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)
2003 - Valentin Pavlov, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1937)
2004 - Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (b. 1908)
2004 - Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster (b. 1914)
2004 - Michael King, New Zealand historian (b. 1945)
2004 - Timi Yuro, American singer (b. 1940)
2005 - Emil Dimitrov, Bulgarian singer (b. 1940)
2005 - Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)
2005 - Milton Green, American athlete (b. 1913)