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Historical Events on March 30

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.
1282
The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
1296
Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
1815
Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification.
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 by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
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.
1855
Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
1856
The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
1863
Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
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.
1870
Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
1885
The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.
1899
German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
1912
Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1918
Outburst of bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate.
1939
The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745 km/h).
1940
Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.
1944
World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
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.
1945
World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna; Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig.
1949
A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
1961
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
1965
Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
1972
Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
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.
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.
1982
Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
2009
Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.
2017
SpaceX conducts the world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket.[1][2]

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