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March 30
1822 - Florida becomes a United States territory.
1842 - Dr. C. Long first uses ether as an anesthetic during a minor operation.
1853 - Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for a pencil with an ERASER!
1867 - Secretary of State Seward purchases Alaska for $7.2 million.
1870 - 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race.
1870 - Texas is readmitted into the Union.
1909 - Queensboro Bridge is opened, linking Manhattan and Queens.
1932 - Amelia Earhart is first woman to make solo crossing of the Atlantic.
1945 - The Soviet Union invades Austria during World War II.
1950 - Invention of phototransistor announced, Murray Hill, N.J.
1964 - John Glenn withdraws from the Ohio race for the U.S. Senate.
1973 - Ellsworth Bunker resigned as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam.
1981 - President Reagan is shot and wounded by John W. Hinckley Jr.
1982 - Third Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 returns to Earth.
1984 - US ends participation in multinational peace force in Lebanon.
1986 - James Cagney dies at his farm in Stanfordville N.Y. at age 86.
Birthdays
1719 - Sir John Hawkins, wrote first history of music in English.
1746 - Francisco Jose de Goya, artist
1853 - Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear.
1913 - Frankie Laine, Singer
1919 - McGeorge Bundy, National security adviser
1930 - John Astin, Actor
1930 - Peter Marshall, former host of "Hollywood Squares"
1937 - Warren Beatty, Actor
1945 - Eric Clapton, Rocker
-- Anonymous, March 30, 2001