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On this day March 30

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.

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