On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on March 30:
1135 Maimonides [Moses Ben Maimon] Còrodoba Spain, philosopher/physician
1432 Mehmed II [Fâtih] Sultan of Turkey (1451-81)
1672 Peter I "the Great" Romanov great tsar of Russia (1682-1725)
1674 Jethro Tull agricultural writer (Basildon), baptised
1719 Sir John Hawkins England, wrote 1st history of music
1746 Francisco Jose de Goya Fuendetodos Spain, painter/etcher (Naked Maja)
1790 Joseph Smith Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1877
1804 Salomon Sulzer composer
1823 Joseph Farmer Knipe Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1824 Innis Newton Palmer Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1825 Samuel Bell Maxey Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1836 Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg German industrialist/politician
1842 John Fiske [Edmund Fisk Green] US historian/philosopher
1853 Vincent van Gogh Zundert Netherlands, artist who always lent an ear (Irises)
1880 Sean O'Casey Ireland, playwright (Playboy of the Western World)
1886 Stanislaw Lesniewski Poland, logician/mathematician
1888 Anna Q Nilsson Ystad Sweden, actress (Shenandoah, Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1894 Sergei Ilyushin Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin)
1913 Frankie Laine [Frank Paul LoVecchio] Chicago IL, singer (Hey, Good Lookin', That's My Desire)/ actor (Frankie Laine Show, Rawhide)
1913 Richard Helms CIA head (1966-73)
1914 Sonny Boy Williamson [John Lee] blues musician (Down & Out Blues)
1919 McGeorge Bundy Boston MA, national security adviser under JFK
1930 David Staple joint president (Council of Churches for Britain & Ireland)
1930 Peter Marshall [Pierre LaCock] Huntington Long Island NY, TV game show host (Hollywood Squares)
1931 Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin Russian cosmonaut
1937 Warren Beatty Richmond VA, actor (Bonnie & Clyde,Shampoo, Dick Tracy)
1940 Astrud Gilberto Brazil, singer (Girl From Ipanema)
1940 Jerry Lucas Middletown OH, NBA center (New York Knicks, NBA rookie of year 1964, Olympics-gold-60)
1945 Eric Clapton [Eric Patrick Clapp] Ripley England, legendary guitarist/singer (Yardbirds, Cream, Tears in Heaven)
1948 Dave Ball rocker (Procul Harum)
1957 Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM 20, STS 84)
1968 Celine Dion Québec Canada, singer (I'm Your Woman)
1970 Secreteriat race horse, triple crown (1973)
1973 Caroline Ramagos Miss Mississippi-USA (1996)
Deaths which occurred on March 30:
0988 Arnulf II count of Flanders (965-988), dies
1202 Joachim Van Fiore Italian religious founder (Joachimism), dies
1547 François I of Valois-Angoulême King of France (1515-47), dies at 52
1840 George (Beau) Brummell Dandy, dies
1873 Benedict Augustin Morel psychologist (dementia praecox), dies at 63
1910 Jean Moréas [Y Papadiamantopoulos], Greek/French poet, dies at 53
1926 Feliks E Dzerzjinski Lithuanian organizer (KGB), dies at 48
1948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
1950 Léon Blum French premier (People's Front Govt), dies at 77
1961 P J Melotte discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies
1966 Maxfield Parrish US painter, dies at 95
1979 Airey Neave British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb
1981 Dewitt Wallace US founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91
1986 James F Cagney actor (Public Enemy, Angels With Dirty Faces, Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies at his Stanfordville NY farm at 86
1994 Albert Goldman rock biographer (Elvis, John Lennon), dies at 66
2002 Britain’s Queen Mother Elizabeth died at age 101 in her sleep at Royal Lodge, Windsor
2004 Alister Cook journalist (Letters from America)
GWOT Casualties
30-Mar-2003 6 | US: 3 | UK: 3 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Michael Vernon Lalush Southern part Hostile - helicopter crash
US Sergeant Brian Daniel McGinnis Southern part Hostile - helicopter crash
US Captain Aaron Joseph Contreras Southern part Hostile - helicopter crash
UK Major Steve Alexis Ballard Not reported Non-hostile - natural causes
UK Lance Corporal Shaun Andrew Brierley Not reported Non-hostile - vehicle accident
UK Royal Navy Marine Christopher R. Maddison Basra Hostile - hostile fire
30-Mar-2004 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lance Corporal William J. Wiscowiche Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Master Sergeant Richard L. Ferguson Samarra Non-hostile - vehicle accident
Afghanistan
A Good Day
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On this day...
0239 BC 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
0804 Liudger becomes 1st bishop of Münster
1282 Inhabitants of Palermo attack French occupation force in the "Sicilian Vespers." The Mafia appeared in Sicily to revolt against French rule after a drunken soldier attacked a young woman on her wedding day.
1456 Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege
1492 King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree expelling Jews from Spain
1533 Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon
1533 Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1603 Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish
1814 Britain & allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
1822 Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory
1842 Ether was used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Jefferson GA)
1856 Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War
1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)
1864 Skirmish at Mount Elba AR
1865 Battle at 5 Forks Virginia
1867 US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2¢ an acre-Seward's Folly)
1870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
1870 Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union
1889 John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers NY)
1912 French protectorate in Morocco established
1919 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act
1925 Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians
1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic
1935 Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hours W of Greenwich, repeats 44 seconds
1941 Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel began its first offensive against British forces in Libya.
1942 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau
1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
1945 289 anti-fascists murdered by Nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund
1950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill NJ
1953 Einstein announces revised unified field theory
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 meter)
1963 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1964 Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race
1966 Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS
1967 Cover picture of Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper" is photographed
1970 Miles Davis Bitches Brew released
1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam
1980 Mormon Church celebrates its 150th anniversary in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1981 President Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr
1984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
1987 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for record £22.5M ($39.7 million)
1990 Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament
1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman(Patricia Bowman) (found not guilty)
1994 Clinton administration announced it was lifting virtually all export controls on non-military products to China and the former Soviet bloc
1995 Pope John Paul II issued the 11th encyclical of his papacy in which he condemned abortion and euthanasia as crimes that no human laws could legitimize.
1998 In Algeria some 123 people including 58 civilians and many children were reported killed in the west and south in the last 3 days.
1999 Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic insisted that NATO attacks stop before he moved toward peace, declaring his forces ready to fight "to the very end"
2000 Mount Usu (Japan)erupted on Hokaido following 22 years of dormancy
2003 12th day of Operation Iraqi Freedom an Iraqi general, captured by British forces in southern Iraq, was pressed to provide information. A British TV correspondent covering the war in Iraq died after apparently falling from a hotel roof.
2004 Philippine officials reported the arrest of 4 Muslim extremists in the brutal al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Devonshire, England : Blind Days (it is unlucky to sow seed during the last 3 days of March).
Alaska : Seward Day (1867) (Monday)
US Virgin Island : Transfer Day (1917) (Monday)
US : Starry Night
US : Doctor's Day
US : I am in Control Day
US : Take a Walk in the Park Day
National Feminine Empowerment Month
Religious Observances
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Leonard Murialdo, Italian priest/educator
Religious History
1135 Birth of Moses Maimonides, medieval Jewish scholar. Considered the foremost Talmudist of the Middle Ages, his most important writing was "Guide to the Perplexed" (1190), in which he tried to harmonize Rabbinic Judaism with the increasingly popular Aristotelianism of his day.
1492 The Jews were expelled from Spain by Inquisitor_General Tom's Torquemada (Spanish Inquisition).
1771 English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'Suffer all, and conquer all.'
1863 Ownership of Wilberforce University in Ohio was transferred to the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The school had been founded seven years earlier by the Methodist Episcopal Church.
1917 All imperial lands, as well as lands belonging to monasteries, were confiscated by the Russian provisional government.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"Nothing beats fun for having a good time"
She is doing OK as long as she stays laying down, it is tough trying to get up.
She slept pretty good but woke to pain and nausea. She is reading the Limbaugh letter right now and feels better.
I feel uncomfortable at times with preachers who are always saying, "The Lord told me," as if they had just heard from God directly. They give the impression that we must believe that everything they say is true. After all, how can we argue with God. 
