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Events from History on March 30

1282 : Furious inhabitants of Palermo attack French occupation force
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 : Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon
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 : Britain & allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
1822 : Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory
1842 : Ether was 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 Sleesw˜k-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glcksburg
1863 : 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› 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
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-Cambridge
1900 : Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law
1909 : Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens
1911 : L”tschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed
1912 : French protectorate in Morocco established
1916 : (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1916 : Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens (NHA) beat Portland Rosebuds
1918 : (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1919 : Belgian Army occupies Dsseldorf
1919 : Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act
1919 : Paul Claudel's "Tˆte 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
1930 : Babberich-H soccer team forms
1932 : Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic
1935 : Newfoundland changes time to 3« hrs W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec
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 Champion: 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
1946 : "St Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 113 performances
1946 : Last Test Cricket appearance of Bill O'Reilly (5-14 & 3-19)
1950 : Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
1952 : 6th Tony Awards: Fourposter & King & I win
1953 : 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)
1963 : France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1964 : Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race
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
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
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
1980 : Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God," premieres in NYC
1981 : #2812 Scaltriti, #3314 Beals, #3531 Cruikshank, #3688 & #7553
1981 : 43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Champ: 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
1984 : US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force [0126?]
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 œ22.5M ($39.7 million)
1988 : 2nd Soul Train Music Awards
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 : Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vr˜e Folk" (Free People)
1991 : PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller [3/30?]
1991 : William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty)
1992 : 64th Academy Awards - "Silence of Lamb," A 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 govt 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 : A man attempts to rape XXX actress Sharon Mitchell
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 Champion: Tenn beats Old Dominion 68-59
1998 : 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio

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