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30 March, 2006

Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space.

30 March, 2006

UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.

30 March, 1997

Five (channel) Begins broadcasting in the UK

30 March, 1982

Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

30 March, 1981

President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.

30 March, 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.

30 March, 1972

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

30 March, 1965

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

30 March, 1961

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

30 March, 1954

Yonge Street subway line opens in Toronto. It is the first subway in Canada.

30 March, 1951

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

30 March, 1949

Riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joined NATO.

30 March, 1945

World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna, Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdansk.

30 March, 1945

World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.

30 March, 1940

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

30 March, 1939

The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets the world airspeed record of 463 mph.

30 March, 1939

First flight of the Australian C.A.C. CA-16 Wirraway.

30 March, 1912

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

30 March, 1910

Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi.

30 March, 1909

The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens.

30 March, 1885

The Battle for Kushka triggers the Pandjeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.

30 March, 1870

Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.

30 March, 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 Sewards Folly.

30 March, 1863

Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.

30 March, 1858

Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.

30 March, 1856

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

30 March, 1855

Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas - "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.

30 March, 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.

30 March, 1842

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

30 March, 1822

Florida Territory created in the United States.

30 March, 1814

Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.

30 March, 1814

Neapolitan War: Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification.

30 March, 1492

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

30 March, 1296

Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.

30 March, 1282

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

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