March 30

Sunday 30, 2003:

Under cover of darkness, Mayor Richard M. Daley destroys Meigs Field, a general aviation airport in downtown Chicago, Illinois, without giving the required notice to the FAA.

Monday 30, 1987:

One of Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings is bought by Japanese insurance magnate Yasuo Goto for $39.85 million.

Monday 30, 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.

Saturday 30, 1974:

The Ramones play their first ever gig as a trio at the Performance Studio in New York City.

Thursday 30, 1972:

Vietnam War: The Eastertide Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.

Tuesday 30, 1965:

Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.

Monday 30, 1964:

The game show Jeopardy! debuts on television.

Friday 30, 1962:

Jack Paar hosts his last episode of The Tonight Show.

Thursday 30, 1961:

The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.

Tuesday 30, 1954:

The first subway in Canada opens after five years of construction, in Toronto.

Friday 30, 1951:

Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.

Friday 30, 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.

Saturday 30, 1940:

Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking to be the capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.

Saturday 30, 1912:

Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.

Wednesday 30, 1870:

Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.

Saturday 30, 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.

Monday 30, 1863:

Prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleeswÿk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg is chosen as King George I of Greece.

Tuesday 30, 1858:

Hyman Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.

Sunday 30, 1856:

The Treaty of Paris (1856) is signed, ending the Crimean War.

Friday 30, 1855:

"Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.

Saturday 30, 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.

Wednesday 30, 1842:

Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long.

Saturday 30, 1822:

Florida Territory created in the United States.

Wednesday 30, 1814:

Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.

Thursday 30, 1533:

Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.

Wednesday 30, 1492:

Ferdinand and Isabella sign a decree aimed at expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.

Friday 30, 1296:

Edward I storms Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking the then-Scottish border town, slaughtering almost everyone, even those fleeing to the churches.

Monday 30, 1282:

The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.

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