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Crawford Long
Wang Jingwei
Merv Griffin, creator of the game show Jeopardy!
Alex Trebek, longtime host of Jeopardy!
Marcos Pontes
Ronald Reagan
William H. Seward
Usmar Ismail
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day in Trinidad and Tobago | stub |
| 1282 – Sicilians began to rebel against the rule of the Angevin King Charles I of Naples, starting the War of the Sicilian Vespers. | Vespers: refimprove section; War: needs more footnotes |
| 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. | unreferenced section |
| 1912 – Sultan Abdelhafid signed the Treaty of Fes, making Morocco a French protectorate. | Treaty: refimprove, short; Protectorate: missing information |
| 1940 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Wang Jingwei was officially installed by Japan as head of a puppet state in China. | Wang: refimprove section; Regime: refimprove section |
| 1954 – The Yonge–University–Spadina line, the first subway in Canada and the busiest in Toronto, opened. | refimprove section |
| 1961 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, an international treaty aimed against the illicit manufacture and trafficking of narcotic drugs, was signed. | multiple issues |
| 2006 – Aboard Soyuz TMA-8, on a mission to the International Space Station, Marcos Pontes became the first Brazilian in space. | refimprove section |
| James Cagney |d|1986 | If someone wants to confirm the filmography is cited in the article, then we're good to go |
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- 1842 – American physician Crawford Long became the first person to use diethyl ether as an anesthetic in a surgical procedure.
- 1867 – U.S. secretary of state William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for US$7.2 million.
- 1950 – Usmar Ismail began shooting Darah dan Doa, widely recognised as the first Indonesian film.
- 1964 – Jeopardy!, the popular American game show created by Merv Griffin, made its debut on the NBC television network.
- 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.
- Born/died: | Ralph Sadler |d|1587| Kazimierz Łyszczyński |d|1689| Juan Manuel de Rosas |b|1793| Beau Brummell |d|1840| Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun |d|1842| Anna Sewell |b|1820| Stefan Banach |b|1892| Philip Showalter Hench |d|1965| Celine Dion |b|1968| DJ AM |b|1973|
March 30: Land Day in Palestinian communities (1976)
Moments after the attempted assassination of Reagan
- 1822 – The United States merged East Florida and West Florida to create the Florida Territory.
- 1861 – British chemist William Crookes published his discovery of thallium using flame spectroscopy.
- 1918 – Four days of inter-ethnic clashes broke out in Baku, Azerbaijan, resulting in about 12,000 deaths.
- 1981 – John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded U.S. president Ronald Reagan and three others outside the Washington Hilton (immediate aftermath pictured).
- 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.
- Ralph Sadler (d. 1587)
- Beau Brummell (d. 1840)
- Celine Dion (b. 1968)