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| Birthday March 30, 1222 Nichiren, Japanese Buddhist priest, saint |
| Birthday March 30, 1719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote 1st history of music, English |
| Birthday March 30, 1746 Francisco Jose de Goya, Spanish painter, etcher |
| Birthday March 30, 1820 Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty, is born |
| Birthday March 30, 1825 Samuel Bell Maxey born |
| Birthday March 30, 1844 Paul Verlaine, French lyric poet |
| Birthday March 30, 1853 Vincent Van Gogh, artist |
| Birthday March 30, 1880 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright |
| Birthday March 30, 1886 Stanislaw Lesniewski, Polish logician, mathematician |
| Birthday March 30, 1913 Richard Helms, former CIA head |
| Birthday March 30, 1913 Frankie Laine, singer |
| Birthday March 30, 1919 McGeorge Bundy, Natl security adviser |
| Birthday March 30, 1930 Peter Marshall, (Hollywood Squares) |
| Birthday March 30, 1930 John Astin, Actor |
| Birthday March 30, 1937 Warren Beatty, Actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Reds) |
| Birthday March 30, 1945 Eric Clapton, musician |
| History March 30, 1775 King George endorses New England Restraining Act |
| History March 30, 1814 Allies capture Paris |
| History March 30, 1822 Fla became a US territory |
| History March 30, 1842 Dr. Crawford Long - 1st physician to use ether as anesthetic |
| History March 30, 1855 Violence disrupts first Kansas election |
| History March 30, 1858 Hyman Lipman of Phila patents a pencil with attached eraser |
| History March 30, 1867 Seward's Folly |
| History March 30, 1867 US purchases Alaska for $7 -200 -000 (Seward's Folly) |
| History March 30, 1870 15th Amendment adopted |
| History March 30, 1870 Tx readmitted to US after Civil War |
| History March 30, 1870 15th Amendment passes - guarantees right to vote regardless of race |
| History March 30, 1891 Sockless Simpson rallies populist farmers |
| History March 30, 1909 Queensboro Bridge opens linking Manhattan & Queens |
| History March 30, 1918 Allied troops halt Germans at Moreuil Wood |
| History March 30, 1932 Amelia Earhart 1st woman to solo cross the Atlantic |
| History March 30, 1940 Japanese set up puppet regime at Nanking |
| History March 30, 1945 USSR invades Austria during WW II |
| History March 30, 1948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi |
| History March 30, 1948 Henry Wallace criticizes Truman's Cold War policies |
| History March 30, 1950 Phototransistor invention announced - Murray Hill - NJ |
| History March 30, 1961 P.J Melotte - discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae - dies |
| History March 30, 1964 John Glenn withdrew from Ohio senate race |
| History March 30, 1965 Bomb explodes outside U.S. Embassy in Saigon |
| History March 30, 1965 Bill Bradley scores 58 points for Princeton |
| History March 30, 1972 North Vietnamese launch Nguyen Hue Offensive |
| History March 30, 1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to S Vietnam |
| History March 30, 1974 John Denver has his first #1 hit with Sunshine On My Shoulders |
| History March 30, 1980 Oil workers drown in North Sea |
| History March 30, 1981 Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr |
| History March 30, 1981 Reagan is shot |
| History March 30, 1981 Ronald Reagan is shot by John Hinckley, Jr. |
| History March 30, 1981 Obsessed Jodie Foster fan John Hinckley Jr. shoots President Reagan |
| History March 30, 1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 returns to Earth |
| History March 30, 1984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force |
| History March 30, 1986 James Cagney dies at his Stanfordville NY farm at 86 |
| History March 30, 2009 President Obama announces auto industry shakeup |