Notable Historical Events on March 30th
March 30th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
240 |
1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. |
BC AD | |
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 |
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 |
1796 |
Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, discovers the construction of the heptadecagon |
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 |
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 to the US constitution is adopted, 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 |
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 Nuremberg |
1945 |
289 anti-fascists murdered by nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund |
1945 |
USSR invades Austria |
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 |
Albert Einstein announces revised unified field theory |
1954 |
Test Cricket debut of Garry Sobers v England at Kingston |
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 |
1969 |
Loyalists bomb water and electricity installations in Northern Ireland in the hope that the attacks would be blamed on the IRA and on elements of the civil rights movement, which was demanding an end to discrimination against Catholics |
1970 |
"Applause" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 900 performances |
1970 |
Miles Davis Bitches Brew released |
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 |
1972 |
Northern Ireland's Government and Parliament dissolved by the British Government and 'direct rule' from Westminster is introduced |
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 |
1982 |
John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God" premieres in NYC |
1983 |
Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives" premieres in London |
1983 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1983 |
New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) begins trading in crude oil future |
1984 |
US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force |
1986 |
"Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 perfs |
1986 |
5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern Cal 97-81 |
1987 |
59th Academy Awards - "Platoon", Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win |
1987 |
Vincent van Goghs "Sunflowers" sells for record 22.5M pounds ($39.7 million) |
1988 |
2nd Soul Train Music Awards: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston win |
1988 |
Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns & 144 to win Ranji Trophy |
1990 |
Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament |
1991 |
"Speed of Darkness" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 36 perfs |
1991 |
1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yanks-Orioles) |
1991 |
Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vr˜e Folk" (Free People) |
1991 |
Northern Michigan wins its 1st NCAA hockey title |
1991 |
PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller |
1991 |
William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty) |
1992 |
64th Academy Awards - "Silence of Lamb", Anthony Hopkins & Jodie Foster win |
1992 |
CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute" |
1992 |
Man accidentally backs in A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini |
1992 |
P J Patterson, resigns as 6th PM of Jamaica |
1992 |
WNSR-FM (105.1) changes callsign to WMXV-FM (NYC) |
1993 |
"Redwood Curtain" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 40 perfs |
1993 |
French government of Balladur forms |
1993 |
Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election |
1993 |
Lanford Wilson's "Redwood Curtain" premieres in NYC |
1993 |
New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield |
1993 |
Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy |
1994 |
ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe |
1994 |
Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy |
1994 |
England Cricket all out for 46 at Port-of-Spain |
1995 |
"Arcadia" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 204 performances |
1996 |
Lara hits 146 cricket not out in ODI vs NZ at Port-Of-Spain |
1996 |
NY Mets beats NY Yankees 5-3 in an exhibition game |
1996 |
Prince Edward & girl-friend Sophie visited Graystoke Castle |
1997 |
16th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tenn beats Old Dominion 68-59 |
1997 |
26th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King |
1997 |
Southwestern Bell Dominion Senior Golf |
1997 |
Steve Elkington wins Golf's Players Championship |
1997 |
Five (channel) Begins broadcasting in the UK |
1998 |
60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio |
2006 |
Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space. |
2006 |
UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law. |
2011 |
The global credit information group Experian highlight in a report that the economic recovery for Wales is slower than the rest of the UK, stating a forecasted growth of 1.6% per year over the next decade as compared to 2.2% for the rest of the United Kingdom |
2012 |
Spanish Government cuts 27 Billion Euros from its budget in one of its toughest austerity driver in history |
2012 |
Mastercard and Visa announce a massive breach in security with over ten million compromised credit card numbers |
2012 |
American Mega Millions lottery hits a world record lottery amount of 640 million dollars |
2013 |
North Korea declares it is at a state of war with South Korea |
2013 |
Uhuru Kenyatta is declared the rightful winner of the Kenyan presidential election by the Supreme Court |
2016 |
Trump drops pledge to back Republican presidential nominee other than himself |
2016 |
Pakistan's Christians call for protection, unity after Easter bomb |
2017 |
13 Killed in Texas as Church Bus and Pickup Truck Collide |
2017 |
Ivanka Trump to Become Official White House Employee |
2017 |
Three tornado chasers die in Texas crash |
2018 |
Tesla voluntarily recalls early Model S vehicles over power steering bolts |
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