March 30

What happened that day?

• 2017: SpaceX conducts the world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket.[1][2]
• 2009: Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.
• 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, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
• 1972: Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
• 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.
• 1949: 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: Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.
• 1944: World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
• 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: Outburst of 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.
• 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 British Empire and Russian Empire.
• 1870: Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
• 1867: Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/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.
• 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.
• 1815: Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification.
• 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: Balkan Campaign: 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 hordes are decimated by the plague.