Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 30
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| 1282 – Sicilians began to rebel against the rule of the Angevin King Charles I of Naples, starting the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
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| 1842 – American physician Crawford Long became the first person to use diethyl ether as an anesthetic in a surgical procedure.
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| 1899 – A committee of the German Society of Chemistry invited other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to form the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
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| 1940 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Wang Jingwei was officially installed by Japan as head of a puppet state in China.
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| 1954 – The Yonge–University–Spadina line, the first subway in Canada and the busiest in Toronto, opened.
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| 1961 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, an international treaty aimed against the illicit manufacture and trafficking of narcotic drugs, was signed.
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| 1964 – Jeopardy!, the popular American game show created by Merv Griffin, made its debut on the NBC television network.
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| 2006 – Aboard Soyuz TMA-8, on a mission to the International Space Station, Marcos Pontes became the first Brazilian in space.
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- 1861 – British chemist William Crookes published his discovery of thallium using flame spectroscopy.
- 1867 – U.S. secretary of state William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for {{nowrap|US$7.2 million}}.
- 1918 – Four days of inter-ethnic clashes broke out in Baku, Azerbaijan, resulting in about 12,000 deaths.
- 1921 – The Australian Air Corps was disbanded, to be replaced the following day by the Australian Air Force.
- 1950 – Usmar Ismail began shooting Darah dan Doa, widely recognised as the first Indonesian film.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces began the Easter Offensive in an attempt to gain as much territory and destroy as many South Vietnamese units as possible.
- 1981 – John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded U.S. president Ronald Reagan and three others outside the Washington Hilton (immediate aftermath pictured).
- 2002 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, widow of King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II, died at Royal Lodge aged 101.
- Born/died: | Ralph Sadler |d|1587| Kazimierz Łyszczyński |d|1689| Juan Manuel de Rosas |b|1793 | Anna Sewell |b|1820| Beau Brummell |d|1840| Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun |d|1842| Stefan Banach |b|1892| Philip Showalter Hench |d|1965| Celine Dion |b|1968 | DJ AM |b|1973| Fred Korematsu |d|2005|
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March 30: Eid al-Fitr (Islam, 2025); Laetare Sunday (Western Christianity, 2025); Land Day in Palestinian communities (1976)
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- 1822 – The United States merged East Florida and West Florida to create the Florida Territory.
- 1912 – Sultan Abd al-Hafid signed the Treaty of Fes (depicted), making Morocco a French protectorate.
- 1977 – Annie Hall had its first screening at the LA Film Festival; it was voted the funniest screenplay ever by members of the Writers Guild of America.
- 2009 – The Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan, was attacked and held for several hours by 12 gunmen, resulting in 16 deaths and 95 injuries.
{{Born and died list| Nicolae Rădescu |b|1874 |William Hoapili Kaʻauwai |d|1874 |Karl Berger |b|1935|Chrisye |d|2007|}}
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