Today In History - March 30

804 Liudger becomes The first Bishop of Munster
988 Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders
1282 Furious inhabitants of Palermo attack a French occupation force
1422 Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free Aizoji temple
1456 Prince Louis of Bourbon is elected Bishop of Liege
1474 Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland
1492 King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella sign decree expelling Jews from Spain
1533 Henry VIII divorces his first 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 is crowned with a laurel wreath
1814 Britain and allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
1822 Congress combined East and West Florida into Florida Territory
1842 Ether was used as an anesthetic for first time by Dr. Crawford Long
1856 Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War
1858 Pencil with attached an eraser patented by Hyman L. Lipman
1864 Skirmish at Mount Elba, Arkansas
1865 Battle at 5 Forks Virginia
1867 U.S. buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000
1870 The 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
1870 Texas becomes the last confederate state readmitted to Union
1889 John T. Reid opens the first U.S. golf course in Yonkers, New York
1893 Thomas F. Bayard becomes first U.S. ambassador in Great Britain
1909 The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens
1911 The Lotschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 meters long) is 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
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
1925 Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians
1932 Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic
1940 2nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana U beats Kansas 60-42
1941 German counter offensive in North-Africa
1942 The first RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau
1942 The SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
1943 5th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: University of Wyoming beat Georgetown 46-34
1943 The British first army recaptures Sejenane
1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" premieres in New York City
1944 781 British bombers attack Nuremberg
1945 289 anti-fascists murdered by Nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund
1945 U.S.S.R. invades Austria during WW II
1950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, New Jersey
1952 The 6th Tony Awards: Fourposter and King and I win
1952 Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
1953 Einstein announces revised unified field theory
1955 27th Academy Awards - "On the Waterfront," Brando and Grace Kelly win
1956 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1959 WNED TV channel 17 in Buffalo, New York (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
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
1970 "Applause" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 900 performances
1970 Miles Davis Bitches Brew released
1970 Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
1970 U.S.S.R. wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
1972 "Funny Thing Happened..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 156 performances
1972 North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
1972 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam
1976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
1980 Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God," premieres in New York City
1980 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1981 43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Champ: Indiana beats North Carolina 63-50
1981 President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley III
1982 The 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands, NM
1982 John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God," premieres in New York City
1983 Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives," premieres in London
1983 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1984 U.S. ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
1986 "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 198 performances
1986 5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern California 97-81
1987 59th Academy Awards - "Platoon," Paul Newman and Marlee Matlin win
1987 Vincent van Goghs "Sunflowers" sells for record 22.5M pounds ($39.7 million)
1988 The second Soul Train Music Awards
1990 Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament
1991 Northern Michigan wins its first 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," A Hopkins and Jodie Foster win
1992 CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute"
1992 P J Patterson, resigns as 6th PM of Jamaica
1993 The French government of Balladur forms
1993 Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election
1994 ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe
1997 16th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: 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
1998 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio

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