Today in History
30th March
Peter I "the Great" Romanov
Mary Evans Picture Library. In Jackson J. Spielvogel, Western Civilization 2nd ed., (New York: West Publishing, 1994), p. 603
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| 1135 Moses Maimonides, Jewish philosopher, born in Spain. Regarded as the foremost intellectual figure of medieval Judaism, his works have been translated into many languages. | ||
| 1282 Furious inhabitants of Palermo attack French occupation force | ||
| 1406 On his way to France, James I of Scotland was captured at Flamborough Head and imprisoned by King Henry IV of England. |
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| 1422 Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple | ||
| 1456 Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege | ||
| 1474 Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland | ||
| 1492 King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree expelling Jews from Spain | ||
| 1533 Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon | ||
| 1533 Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury | ||
| 1603 Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish | Peter I "the Great" Romanov |
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| 1672 Peter I "the Great" Romanov, great tsar of Russia (1682-1725) was born | ||
| 1746 Spanish painter Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes born. At first influenced by Tiepolo and the Neapolitans, he turned to painting realistic scenes from everyday Spanish life. | ||
| 1778 Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath | ||
| 1790 Joseph Smith, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877 was born | ||
| 1806 Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, was proclaimed king of Naples. | ||
| 1814 Britain and its allies against Napoleon Bonaparte marched in triumph into Paris. | |
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| 1830 Julius F A Bahnsen, German philosopher was born | ||
| 1842 The first surgical operation using an anaesthetic was carried out by Dr. Crawford Long of Jefferson, Georgia. | ||
| 1853 Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter associated with post-impressionism, was born. The Provencal landscape was the focus of many of his best works, "Sunflowers," "The Bridge" and "The Chair and the Pipe." | ||
| 1856 The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Crimean War and guaranteeing the integrity of Ottoman Turkey. | ||
| 1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Phila) | ||
| 1863 William, Prince of Denmark, was recognized as king of Greece and took the title George I. | Voltaire Mary Evans Picture Library. In Jackson J. Spielvogel, Western Civilization 2nd ed., (New York: West Publishing, 1994), p. 603 |
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| 1864 Skirmish at Mount Elba, Arkansas | ||
| 1864 Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist/politician was born | ||
| 1867 A treaty for the purchase of Alaska from Russia for the sum of $7.2 million, approximately two cents an acre, was submitted to the U.S. Senate. | ||
| 1870 U.S. Congress readmitted Texas to the Union after it had seceded in 1861 to join the Confederate States. | ||
| 1870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race | ||
| 1893 Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain | ||
| 1894 Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin) was born | ||
| 1895 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge | ||
| 1909 Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens | ||
| 1911 L”tschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed | ||
| 1912 French protectorate in Morocco established | ||
| 1917 The Russian provisional government accepted the idea of an independent Poland. | ||
| 1919 Belgian Army occupies Dusseldorf | ||
| 1919 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act | ||
| 1925 Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians | ||
| 1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic | ||
| 1941 German counter offensive in North-Africa | ||
| 1942 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau | ||
| 1943 British 1st army recaptures Sejenane | ||
| 1944 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg | ||
| 1945 289 anti-fascists murdered by nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund | ||
| 1945 the Baltic Sea port of Danzig, or Gdansk, was captured by the Russians. | ||
| 1945 USSR invades Austria during WW II | ||
| 1950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ | ||
| 1950 Leon Blum, French statesman and prime minister, died. France's first socialist premier, he presided over the Popular Front coalition government in 1936-37. | ||
| 1953 Einstein announces revised unified field theory | ||
| 1956 USSR performs nuclear test | ||
| 1964 Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race | ||
| 1966 Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami resigned because of protests that he was the only member of the government in parliament. | ||
| 1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia | ||
| 1972 North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam | ||
| 1972 The Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act came into force decreeing direct rule from London. Brian Faulkner, prime minister of Northern Ireland, resigned. | ||
| 1973 The U.S. military role in Vietnam came to a formal end when the last U.S. prisoner was released and the last soldier withdrew. | ||
| 1976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation | ||
| 1979 Airey Neave, opposition Conservative spokesman on Northern Ireland, died when a bomb exploded in his car in the House of Commons car park. | ||
| 1979 In a two-day referendum, the people of Iran voted overwhelmingly in favor of establishing an Islamic Republic. | ||
| 1981 U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by John Hinckley as he left a Washington hotel. | ||
| 1986 James Cagney, U.S. screen actor, died. Famed for his roles in the films "Public Enemy" and "Angels with Dirty Faces," he also starred in "Yankee Doodle Dandy" for which he won an Oscar. | ||
| 1987 "Sunflowers" by Vincent van Gogh was sold at auction in London for $39.7 million. | ||
| 1988 Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns & 144 to win Ranji Trophy | ||
| 1993 French govt of Balladur forms | ||
| 1993 Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election | ||
| 1993 Israel ordered the closure of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip after Arabs shot dead two policemen. | ||
| 1993 Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy | ||
| 1994 the Bosnian parliament voted unanimously to set up a Croat-Muslim federation, ending over a year of war between two of Bosnia's three ethnic factions. | ||
| 1996 Prince Edward & girl-friend Sophie visited Graystoke Castle | ||
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