About March 30
March 30, 2024 is the 90th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 276 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 305 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 30
- 1814 –Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification.
- 1814 –Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris.
- 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: Bleeding Kansas – “Border Ruffians” from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
- 1863 –Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
- 1870 –Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
- 1909 –The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens.
- 1912 –Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
- 1944 –Allied bombing raid on Nuremberg. Along the English eastern coast 795 aircraft are despatched, including 572 Lancasters, 214 Halifaxes and 9 Mosquitos. The bombers meet resistance at the coasts of Belgium and the Netherlands from German fighters. In total, 95 bombers are lost, making it the largest Bomber Command loss of World War II.
- 1944 –World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
- 1945 –World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna; Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdańsk.
- 1949 –A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
- 1954 –The Yonge Street subway line opens in Toronto. It is the first subway in Canada.
- 1961 –The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
- 1965 –Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the US 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.
- 1981 –President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.
- 1982 –Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
- 2006 –The United Kingdom Terrorism Act 2006 becomes a law.
- 2009 –Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.
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