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Daily Calendar for Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Born

  • Moses Maimonides (rabbi) –
  • Anna Sewell (author) –
  • Vincent van Gogh (Dutch artist ) –
  • Sean O'Casey (playwright) –
  • Jo Davidson (sculptor) –
  • Warren Beatty (actor) –
  • Eric Clapton (musician) –
  • Tracy Chapman (musician) –
  • Celine Dion (singer) –
  • Secretariat (racehorse) –
  • Norah Jones (singer) –
  • Scott Moffatt (musician, of The Moffatts) –
  • Anna Nalick (musician) –

Died

  • Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (Britain’s beloved β€œQueen Mum” was the mother of Queen Elizabeth II) –
  • Timi Yuro (singer) –

Events

  • President Washington proclaimed boundary of new capital city on Potomac River–
  • Dr. Crawford Long of Jefferson, GA, placed an ether-soaked towel over the face of James Venable and removed a tumor from his neck. This was the first recorded use of anesthesia–
  • H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, patented the first pencil with eraser–
  • America bought Alaska from Russia due to pressure from Secretary of State William Seward (Seward’s Folly). The price was $7.2 million, or slightly more than $0.02 an acre–
  • Impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began–
  • Texas readmitted to the Union–
  • Queensboro Bridge, the first double-decker, opened in New York City–
  • Official opening of Canada’s first subway (Toronto)–
  • Woody Guthrie’s song This Land is Your Land copyrighted–
  • Jeopardy! game show made its television debut–
  • The last rum ration was issued in the Royal Canadian Navy–
  • President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded outside a Washington, D.C., hotel–
  • An anonymous buyer paid over $39 million for Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers–
  • Possible UFO seen, Little Fox Lake, Yukon Territory–
  • Superathletes Kirill Shimko and Pavel Soroka pulled five railway cars more than 20 feet–

Weather

  • Hurricane-force winds uprooted trees and brought high tides to the coast and heavy snows inland from Pennsylvania to Maine–
  • In North Dakota, heavy rain and snowmelt around Fargo produced severe flooding–
  • A line of thunderstorms and tornadoes tore up homes and knocked down power lines in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska–

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