SomeFacts | March 30

On this day - March 30

598 — Avar–Byzantine wars: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine ...

1282 — The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, ...

1296 — Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict ...

1699 — Guru Gobind Singh establishes the Khalsa in Anandpur Sahib, ...

1815 — Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation, among the ...

1818 — Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation ...

1822 — The Florida Territory is created in the United States.

1841 — The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.

1842 — Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation ...

1844 — One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of ...

1855 — Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" ...

1856 — The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.

1861 — Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes ...

1863 — Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.

1867 — Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about two ...

1870 — Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following ...

1885 — The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which ...

1899 — German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other ...

1900 — Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover the first clay ...

1912 — Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a ...

1918 — Beginning of the bloody March Events in Baku and other ...

1939 — The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 ...

1940 — Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a ...

1944 — Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack ...

1944 — World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing ...

1945 — World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna. ...

1949 — Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in ...

1959 — Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.

1961 — The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York ...

1965 — Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States ...

1967 — Delta Air Lines Flight 9877 crashes at Louis Armstrong New ...

1972 — Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North ...

1976 — Israeli-Palestinian conflict: in the first organized response ...

1979 — Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament (MP), is killed by ...

1981 — U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a ...

1982 — Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the ...

2002 — The 2002 Lyon car attack takes place.

2006 — Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the ...

2008 — Drolma Kyi arrested by Chinese authorities.

2009 — Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, ...

2011 — Min Aung Hlaing is appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of ...

2017 — SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital ...

2018 — The Israeli Army kills 17 Palestinians and wounds 1,400 in ...

2019 — Pope Francis visits Morocco.

2023 — Donald Trump becomes the first former United States president ...