Category: This Day In History March 30

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This Day in History for March 30

Historic Events:<be>

1842 - Ether was used as an anesthetic for the first time during an operation to remove a patient's neck tumor.
1867 - Seward's Folly: U.S. purchases the territory of Alaska from Russia.
1981 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot outside of a Washington D.C. hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr. His press secretary James Brady became partially paralyzed from his gunshot wounds.

Famous Birthdays:

1853 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter.
1863 - Mary Whiton Calkins, American psychologist. First female president of the American Philosophical Association and the American Psychological Association.
1858 - Jeremiah Jones, extraordinary Black-Canadian soldier.
1940 - Momoko Iko, Japanese-American playwright.
1945 - Eric Clapton, English rock and blues guitarist.
1968 - Celine Dion, Canadian singer.

Famous Deaths:<be>

1986 - James Cagney, Academy award-winning American actor.
2005 - Fred Korematsu, Challenged his incarceration as a Japanese American during World War II to the United States Supreme Court.
2018 - Anna Chennault, Washington D.C. socialite and Republican Party activist.

Person Profiles (8)

幹雄 (織田) Oda 30 Mar 1905 Kaitacho, Aki-gun, Hiroshima-ken, Japan - 02 Dec 1998

James Cagney 17 Jul 1899 Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA - 30 Mar 1986

Mary Calkins 30 Mar 1863 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States - 26 Feb 1930

Anna (Chen) Chennault 23 Jun 1923 Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China - 30 Mar 2018

Momoko Iko 30 Mar 1940 Wapato, Yakima, Washington, United States - 19 Jul 2020

Jeremiah Jones 30 Mar 1858 Truro, Colchester, Nova Scotia - 23 Nov 1950

Fred Korematsu 30 Jan 1919 Oakland, Alameda, California, United States - 30 Mar 2005

Vincent Willem van Gogh 30 Mar 1853 Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland - 29 Jul 1890

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