All Events

Historical Events on March 30

  • Sicily

    1282

    The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.

  • Origins of the American Civil War

    1855

    Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.

  • Texas

    1870

    Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.

  • Second Sino-Japanese War

    1940

    Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.

  • Allies of World War II

    1944

    World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.

  • Soviet Union

    1945

    World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna; Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig.

  • Vietnam War

    1965

    Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.

  • Ronald Reagan

    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.

  • SpaceX

    2017

    SpaceX conducts the world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket.[1][2]

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