March 30

Historic Events

2023

Donald Trump becomes the first former United States president to be indicted by a grand jury. ›

2019

Pope Francis visits Morocco. ›

2018

The Israeli Army kills 17 Palestinians and wounds 1,400 in Gaza during Land Day protests. ›

2017

SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket. ›

2011

Min Aung Hlaing is appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces. ›

2009

Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan. ›

2008

Drolma Kyi arrested by Chinese authorities. ›

2006

Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the Australian region makes landfall near Onslow, Western Australia. ›

2002

The 2002 Lyon car attack takes place. ›

1982

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

1981

U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident. ›

1979

Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament (MP), is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility. ›

1976

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: in the first organized response against Israeli policies by a Palestinian collective since 1948, Palestinians create the first Land Day. ›

1972

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

1967

Delta Air Lines Flight 9877 crashes at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, killing 19. ›

1965

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

1961

The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City. ›

1959

Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India. ›

1949

Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO. ›

1945

World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna. Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig. ›

1944

World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria. ›

1944

World War II: In a raid on Nuremberg, RAF Bomber Command suffers its greatest loss of the war, losing 95 bombers from a force of 795. ›

1940

Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei. ›

1939

The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745 km/h). ›

1918

Beginning of the bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate. ›

1912

Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate. ›

1900

Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover the first clay tablet with hieroglyphic writing in a script later called Linear B. ›

1899

German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights. ›

1885

The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empires. ›

1870

Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction. ›

1867

Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about two cents/acre ($4.19/km2), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. ›

1863

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

1861

Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium. ›

1856

The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War. ›

1855

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

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. ›

1842

Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long. ›

1841

The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens. ›

1822

The Florida Territory is created in the United States. ›

1818

Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid. ›

1815

Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation, among the earliest calls for Italian unification. ›

1699

Guru Gobind Singh establishes the Khalsa in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab. ›

1296

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

1282

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

598

Avar–Byzantine wars: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic army is decimated by the plague. ›