March 30......

March 30 is the 89th (90th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 276 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Animal Rights & Vegetarianism "The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor 'Can they talk?' But rather, 'Can they suffer?'" — Jeremy Bentham

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Environmental Abandonment "God says, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'" — Ann Coulter

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 240 BC - 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.

● 804 - Liudger becomes 1st bishop of Münster

● 988 - Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders

● 1135 - Birth of Moses Maimonides, medieval Jewish scholar. Considered the foremost Talmudist of the Middle Ages, his most important writing was "Guide to the Perplexed" (1190), in which he tried to harmonize Rabbinic Judaism with the increasingly popular Aristotelianism of his day.

● 1282 - Sicilian Vespers Massacre - Sicilians launch a successful revolt against the French occupation with a riot at a Palermo church, killing 2000 on the first day.

● 1296 - Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.

● 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 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign the Alhambra decree aimed at expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.

● 1492 - The Jews were expelled from Spain by Inquisitor-General Tom's Torquemada (Spanish Inquisition).

● 1533 - Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.

● 1533 - Henry VIII divorces his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.

● 1536 - Strangulation of Ibrahim, Grand Vizier of Turkey.

● 1603 - Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish

● 1771 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'Suffer all, and conquer all.'

● 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.

● 1822 - Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory

● 1842 - Ether was used as an anesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Jefferson GA)

● 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.

● 1853 - Birth of Vincent Van Gogh.

● 1855 - Bands of proslavery "Ruffians" from Missouri cross the Kansas border to intimidate "free-soil" voters, and to cast illegal ballots themselves. The result - the election of legislators that strongly supported slavery in the territory.

● 1856 - The Treaty of Paris (1856) is signed, ending the Crimean War.

● 1858 - Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.

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

● 1863 - Ownership of Wilberforce University in Ohio was transferred to the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The school had been founded seven years earlier by the Methodist Episcopal Church.

● 1864 - Skirmish at Mount Elba AR

● 1865 - Battle at 5 Forks Virginia

● 1867 - Birth of Jessie Hodder, prison reformist.

● 1867 - Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this Seward's Folly.

● 1869 - Birth of anarchist, feminist writer/activist Emma Goldman, Kaunas, Lithuania.

● 1870 - African-American men win the right to vote. Poll taxes and ridiculous literacy tests to subvert the 15th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution soon follow.

● 1870 - Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union following Reconstruction.

● 1880 - Sean O'Casey, the noted Irish playwright, was born.

● 1893 - Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain

● 1895 - British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge

● 1900 - Birth of Nicolas Faucier, in Orleans. French anarchist, trade unionist, pacifist, and anti-war organizer.

● 1900 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law

● 1903 - Revolutionary activity in the Dominican Republic brought U.S. troops to Santo Domingo to protect American interests.

● 1905 - U.S. President Roosevelt was chosen to mediate in the Russo-Japanese peace talks.

● 1906 - National Federation of Women Workers formed in Edinburgh, Scotland.

● 1909 - The Queensboro bridge in New York opened linking Manhattan and Queens. It was the first double decker bridge.

● 1909 - In Oklahoma, Seminole Indians revolted against meager pay for government jobs.

● 1910 - Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi.

● 1911 - Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 meter) completed

● 1912 - Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.

● 1915 - Birth of Francisco Sabate (El Quico), Spanish anarchist guerilla, in Barcelona.

● 1916 - Pancho Villa killed 172 at the Guerrero garrison in Mexico.

● 1917 - All imperial lands, as well as lands belonging to monasteries, were confiscated by the Russian provisional government.

● 1919 - Belgian Army occupies Düsseldorf

● 1919 - Closure of shops in protest against Rowlatt Bills begins, New Delhi, India.

● 1923 - Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard University in 1920, incorporates

● 1925 - Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians

● 1932 - Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic

● 1935 - Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hours W of Greenwich, repeats 44 seconds

● 1936 - Britain announced a naval construction program of 38 warships.

● 1940 - Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking to be the capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.

● 1941 - The German Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel began its first offensive against British forces in Libya.

● 1942 - 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau

● 1942 - SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp

● 1943 - British 1st army recaptures Sejenane

● 1944 - 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg

● 1944 - The U.S. fleet attacked Palau, near the Philippines.

● 1945 - 289 anti-fascists murdered by Nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund

● 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna, Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdańsk.

● 1946 - The Allies seized 1,000 Nazis attempting to revive the Nazi party in Frankfurt.

● 1947 - Lord Mountbatten arrived in India as the new Viceroy.

● 1950 - U.S. President Truman denounced Senator Joe McCarthy as a saboteur of U.S. foreign policy.

● 1950 - Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill NJ

● 1951 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.

● 1953 - Einstein announces revised unified field theory

● 1954 - The first subway in Canada opens after five years of construction, in Toronto.

● 1956 - USSR performs nuclear test

● 1957 - Tunisia and Morocco signed a friendship treaty in Rabat.

● 1961 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 meter)

● 1961 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.

● 1963 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria

● 1964 - Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race

● 1965 - Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.

● 1967 - Gurindji people occupy part of Wave Hill Station, Northern Territory, Australia.

● 1968 - Italy - Independently conducted Fiat strike of all 100,000 workers leads to new forms of independent struggle nationwide in '68-'69.

● 1968 - General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia

● 1970 - After decades of struggle and a five-year national boycott, United Farm Workers signs first table grape contract. By 1974, the union is threatened not only by growers but by more powerful unions. The mob-controlled International Brotherhood of Teamsters will muscle its way into the fields and sign sweetheart contracts with growers who haven't signed with United Farm Workers. The combined wealth and political power of the Teamsters and the growers nearly destroys the UFW.

● 1972 - The British government assumed direct rule over Northern Ireland.

● 1972 - Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.

● 1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1973 - Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam

● 1975 - As the North Vietnamese forces moved toward Saigon South Vietnamese soldiers mob rescue jets in desperation.

● 1976 - Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation

● 1978 - Philippines - Ten thousand demonstrate against U.S.-backed Marcos dictatorship.

● 1978 - Tories recruit advertisers to win votes; Saatchi & Saatchi gets the job of revamping the Conservative Party image ahead of the General Election.

● 1979 - Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The INLA claims responsibility.

● 1980 - Henry Poulaille dies. French author, anarchist.

● 1981 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in Washington, DC, by John W. Hinckley Jr., in a vain attempt to impress Jodie Foster. Also wounded were White House news secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent and a District of Columbia police officer. {Despite this, Reagan opposed handgun control legislation that Brady proposed. It was more important to court votes from the NRA than support one of your closest aides that had basically taken a bullet meant for you.}

● 1982 - West Germany - Eighty thousand demonstrate against nuclear power, Wackersdorf.

● 1982 - 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands NM

● 1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1984 - US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force

● 1986 - Eighty thousand again demonstrate against nuclear power, Wackersdorf, West Germany.

● 1986 - Actor James Cagney died at age 86.

● 1991 - William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty)

● 1992 - John Major climbs onto his soapbox; Prime Minister John Major gets onto his soapbox to persuade Conservatives to come out and vote.

● 1992 - PJ Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica

● 1993 - French government of Balladur forms

● 1993 - Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election

● 1993 - In Sarajevo, two Serb militiamen were sentenced to death for war crimes committed in Bosnia.

● 1994 - Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end their war in Croatia while Bosnian Muslims and Serbs continued to fight each other.

● 1995 - Pope John Paul II issued an encyclical condemning abortion and euthanasia as crimes that no human laws could legitimize.

● 1996 - Five hundred march in Sunnyside, Wash. in a United Farm Workers-sponsored commemoration of Cesar Chavez.

● 1999 - A jury in Portland, Ore., ordered Philip Morris to pay $81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades.

● 2002 - An unmanned U.S. spy plan crashed at sea in the Southern Philippines.

● 2002 - Suspected Islamic militants set off several grenades at a temple in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Four civilians, four policemen and two attackers were killed and 20 people were injured.

● 2002 - The Queen Mother Elizabeth of England died at age 101.

● 2006 - American reporter Jill Carroll, a freelancer for The Christian Science Monitor, was released after 82 days as a hostage in Iraq.

● 2006 - Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space.

● 2006 - UK Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.

BIRTHS

● 1135 - Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (d. 1204)

● 1326 - Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)

● 1432 - Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1481)

● 1640 - John Trenchard, English politician (d. 1695)

● 1746 - Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (d. 1828)

● 1750 - John Stafford Smith, English composer (d. 1836)

● 1793 - Juan Manuel de Rosas, Argentine military and political leader and governor of Buenos Aires (1835-52) (d. 1877)

● 1820 - Anna Sewell, British author ("Black Beauty") (d. 1878)

● 1840 - Charles Booth, English ship owner and sociologist (d. 1916)

● 1844 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)

● 1853 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)

● 1857 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)

● 1864 - Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (d. 1943)

● 1879 - Coen de Koning, Dutch ice skater (d. 1954)

● 1880 - Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist (d. 1964)

● 1882 - Melanie Klein, Austrian-born English psychoanalyst (d. 1960)

● 1891 - Arthur Herrington, American engineer and manufacturer; developed the World War II jeep (d. 1970)

● 1892 - Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d. 1960)

● 1892 - Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d. 1972)

● 1894 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (d. 1977)

● 1895 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1975)

● 1902 - Ted Heath, British musician and band leader (d. 1969)

● 1902 - Brooke Astor, American philanthropist

● 1903 - Countee Cullen, American poet (d. 1946)

● 1904 - Ripper Collins, baseball player (d. 1970)

● 1910 - Józef Marcinkiewicz, mathematician (d. 1940)

● 1913 - Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)

● 1913 - Richard Helms, American CIA director (d. 2002)

● 1913 - Frankie Laine, American singer

● 1913 - Censu Tabone, President of Malta

● 1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d. 1948)

● 1919 - McGeorge Bundy, American National Security Advisor (d. 1996)

● 1922 - Turhan Bey, Turkish actor

● 1923 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986)

● 1926 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrepreneur

● 1927(30? NYT) - Peter Marshall, American game show host (''Hollywood Squares'')

● 1928 - Robert Badinter, French politician

● 1929 - Richard Dysart, American actor

● 1930 - John Astin, American actor (''Addams Family'')

● 1930 - Rolf Harris, Australian artist and entertainer

● 1932 - Ted Morgan, Swiss-born writer

● 1935 - Willie Galimore, American football player (d. 1964)

● 1937 - Warren Beatty, American actor and director

● 1940 - Jerry Lucas, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1941 - Graeme Edge, British musician (Moody Blues)

● 1941 - Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan

● 1945 - Eric Clapton, British guitarist/singer

● 1949 - Lene Lovich, American singer

● 1949 - Naomi Sims, American fashion model and businesswoman

● 1950 - Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian

● 1952 - Peter Knights, Australian footballer and coach

● 1956 - Bill Butler, Scottish politician

● 1957 - Paul Reiser, American actor (''Mad About You'')

● 1958 - Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor

● 1959 - Peter Ellis, convicted child abuser

● 1959 - Sabine Meyer, German clarinetist

● 1962 - MC Hammer, American rapper

● 1963 - Eli-Eri Moura, Brazilian composer and conductor

● 1964 - Tracy Chapman, American singer

● 1964 - Ian Ziering, American actor

● 1964 - Dave Ellett, Canadian hockey player

● 1966 - Joey Castillo, American drummer (Queens of the Stone Age)

● 1966 - Efstratios Grivas, Greek chess grandmaster and author

● 1967 - Hayashibara Megumi, Japanese voice actress and singer

● 1968 - Donna D'Errico, American actress and model

● 1968 - Celine Dion, Canadian singer

● 1970(71? NYT) - Mark Consuelos, American actor

● 1970 - Secretariat, American racehorse (d. 1989)

● 1971 - Adam Bennett, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1973 - Jan Koller, Czech footballer

● 1975 - Bahar Soomekh, American actress

● 1976 - Jessica Cauffiel, American actress

● 1976 - Ty Conklin, American ice hockey player

● 1976 - Obadele Thompson, Barbadian athlete

● 1978 - Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player

● 1978 - Fabian Basabe, American reality series star

● 1979 - Norah Jones, American singer and pianist

● 1979 - Simon Webbe, English singer

● 1980 - Yalin, Turkish singer and songwriter

● 1980 - Paul Wall, American rapper

● 1983 - Jérémie Aliadière, French footballer

● 1983 - Zach Gowen, American professional wrestler

● 1984 - Anna Nalick, American singer and songwriter

● 1984 - Mario Ancic, Croatian tennis player

● 1986 - Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer

● 1986 - Beni Arashiro, Japanese singer

● 1988 - Stephen McLeod Blythe, Scottish singer (The RipOffs)

DEATHS

● 1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury

● 1526 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)

● 1540 - Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469)

● 1559 - Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)

● 1587 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)

● 1662 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)

● 1707 - Vauban, French architect (b. 1633)

● 1764 - Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695)

● 1783 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)

● 1804 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b. 1718)

● 1840 - Beau Brummell, English celebrity and dandy (b. 1778)

● 1842 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755)

● 1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)

● 1912 - Karl May, German author (b. 1842)

● 1925 - Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher

● 1936 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish oper singer (b. 1895)

● 1943 - Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (b. 1921)

● 1943 - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)

● 1949 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)

● 1950 - Léon Blum, French prime minister (b. 1872)

● 1959 - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)

● 1965 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)

● 1966 - Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b. 1870)

● 1967 - Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)

● 1968 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)

● 1970 - Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)

● 1972 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (b. 1890)

● 1977 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)

● 1981 - DeWitt Wallace, American publisher (b. 1889)

● 1984 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (b. 1904)

● 1985 - Harold Peary, American actor and singer (heart attack) (b. 1908)

● 1986 - James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)

● 1992 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (b. 1919)

● 1999 - Gary Morton, American film and television producer (b. 1924)

● 2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)

● 2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)

● 2003 - Valentin Pavlov, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1937)

● 2004 - Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (b. 1908)

● 2004 - Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster (b. 1914)

● 2004 - Michael King, New Zealand historian (b. 1945)

● 2004 - Timi Yuro, American singer (b. 1940)

● 2005 - Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)

● 2005 - Milton Green, American athlete (b. 1913)

● 2005 - Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (b. 1919)

● 2005 - O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist (b. 1930)

● 2005 - Derrick Plourde, American drummer (b. 1971)

● 2006 - Red Hickey, American football coach (b. 1917)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Clinius
● St. Domninus
● St. Fergus
● St. John Climacus (d. 649)
● St. Leonard Murialdo, Italian priest/educator
● St. Mamertinus
● St. Osburga
● St. Pastor
● St. Peter Regulatus
● St. Quirinus (d. 117)
● St. Regulus
● St. Tola
● St. Veronus
● St. Zosimus
● Bl. Amadeus IX of Savoy

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 17 (Civil Date: March 30)
● St. Alexius the Man of God.
● St. Macarius, abbot and wonderworker of Kalyazin.
● Martyr Marinus.
● Monk-martyr Paul of Cyprus.
● St. Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland.

● Greek Calendar:
● St. Theocteristus the Confessor.

● Roman Empire - Festival devoted to Salus.

● Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day - Public holiday in Trinidad and Tobago.

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Alaska: Seward Day (1867) - (Monday)
● US Virgin Island: Transfer Day (1917) - (Monday)


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from "The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right" Compiled by William P. Martin 2004

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