On this day...
March 30: Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day in Trinidad and Tobago
- 1282 – Sicilians began to rebel against the rule of the Angevin King Charles I of Naples, starting the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
- 1912 – Sultan Abdelhafid signed the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
- 1940 – World War II: Wang Jingwei was installed by Japan as head of the puppet government in China.
- 1964 – Jeopardy!, the popular game show created by Merv Griffin where contestants must phrase their responses in the form of a question, made its debut on the NBC television network.
- 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 in Washington, D.C..
- 2006 – Aboard Soyuz TMA-8, on a mission to the International Space Station, Marcos Pontes (pictured) became the first Brazilian to go into space.
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