Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 30
This is a list of selected March 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Wang Jingwei -
Merv Griffin, creator of the game show Jeopardy! -
Alex Trebek, longtime host of Jeopardy! -
Marcos Pontes -
Ronald Reagan -
William H. Seward -
Usmar Ismail
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Earth Hour (20:30 local time in various areas, 2019); | lots of CN tags |
| Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day in Trinidad and Tobago | stub |
| 1282 – Sicilians began to rebel against the rule of the Angevin King Charles I of Naples, starting the War of the Sicilian Vespers. | Vespers: refimprove section; War: needs more footnotes |
| 1899 – A committee of the German Society of Chemistry invited other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to form the International Committee on Atomic Weights. | unreferenced section |
| 1912 – Sultan Abdelhafid signed the Treaty of Fes, making Morocco a French protectorate. | Treaty: refimprove, short; Protectorate: missing information |
| 1940 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Wang Jingwei was officially installed by Japan as head of a puppet state in China. | Wang: refimprove section; Regime: refimprove section |
| 1954 – The Yonge–University–Spadina line, the first subway in Canada and the busiest in Toronto, opened. | refimprove section |
| 1961 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, an international treaty aimed against the illicit manufacture and trafficking of narcotic drugs, was signed. | multiple issues |
| 2006 – Aboard Soyuz TMA-8, on a mission to the International Space Station, Marcos Pontes became the first Brazilian in space. | refimprove section |
| · James Cagney (d. 1986) | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1822 – The United States merged East Florida and West Florida to create the Florida Territory.
- 1842 – American physician Crawford Long became the first person to use diethyl ether as an anesthetic in a surgical procedure.
- 1918 – Fighting began during the March Days revolt in Baku, Azerbaijan, resulting in about 12,000 deaths.
- 1964 – Jeopardy!, the popular American game show created by Merv Griffin, made its debut on the NBC television network.
- 2009 – Twelve gunmen attacked the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan, and held it for several hours before security forces could retake it.
- Born/died: Kazimierz Łyszczyński (d. 1689) · Juan Manuel de Rosas (b. 1793) · Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (d. 1842) · Anna Sewell (b. 1820) · Stefan Banach (b. 1892) · Philip Showalter Hench (d. 1965) · DJ AM (b. 1973)
March 30: Land Day (Palestinians, 1976)
- 1861 – British chemist William Crookes published his discovery of thallium, which he had achieved using flame spectroscopy.
- 1867 – U.S. secretary of state William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for US$7.2 million.
- 1950 – Usmar Ismail began shooting Darah dan Doa, widely recognised as the first Indonesian film.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces began the Easter Offensive in an attempt to gain as much territory and destroy as many South Vietnamese units as possible.
- 1981 – Trying to impress actress Jodie Foster, obsessed fan John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded U.S. president Ronald Reagan and three others outside the Washington Hilton hotel (immediate aftermath pictured).
Ralph Sadler (d. 1587) · Beau Brummell (d. 1840) · Celine Dion (b. 1968)