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30th March

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The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empires.

The Panjdeh incident was an armed engagement between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the Russian Empire in 1885 that led to a diplomatic crisis between the United Kingdom and the Russian Empire…

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Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.

The origins of the American Civil War were rooted in the desire of the Southern states to preserve and expand the institution of slavery. Historians in the 21st century overwhelmingly agree on the…

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World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.

World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and aircraft played major…

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SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, doing business as SpaceX, is an American spaceflight, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development…

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One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.

The Battle of Santiago was the second major battle of the Dominican War of Independence and was fought on the 30 March 1844, at Santiago de los Caballeros, Santiago Province. Although outnumbered,…

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The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.

The Treaty of Paris of 1856, signed on 30 March 1856 at the Congress of Paris, brought an end to the Crimean War (1853–1856) between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the…

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World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna. Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig.

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often referred by its shortened name as the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was…

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World War II:  In a raid on Nuremberg, RAF Bomber Command suffers its greatest loss of the war, losing 95 bombers from a force of 795.

The bombing of Nuremberg was a series of air raids carried out by allied forces of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). It caused heavy damage throughout the city…

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The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.

The National Bank of Greece is a banking and financial services company with its headquarters in Athens, Greece. Founded in 1841 as the newly independent country's first financial institution, it has…

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At 07:31 on 30 March 2009, the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan, was attacked by an estimated 12 gunmen. The perpetrators were armed with automatic weapons and grenades or rockets and some…

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Maurice's Balkan campaigns were a series of military expeditions conducted by Roman Emperor Maurice in an attempt to defend the Balkan provinces of the Roman Empire from the Avars and the South…

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Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.

The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while…

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S. M. Pandit
1993S. M. Pandit

Sambanand Monappa Pandit was an Indian painter from Karnataka, popular in the school of Realism in contrast to the contemporaneous net-traditionalist Bengal Renaissance and other…

1955Harl McDonald

Harl McDonald was an American composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. McDonald was born in Boulder, Colorado, and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, the…

Jean Toomer
1967Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the latter association. His reputation…

Rudolf Steiner
1925Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian New Age guru, philosopher, occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial…

2005Chrysanthos Theodoridis

Chrysanthos Theodoridis, or simply Chrysanthos was a Greek singer and songwriter. He was born in Oinoi, Kozani to a Pontic Greek family from Kars and he wrote several songs for…

Anitta (singer)
1993
Anitta (singer)
Larissa de Macedo Machado, known professionally as Anitta, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and occasional television host. One of…
Sonny Boy Williamson I
1914
Sonny Boy Williamson I
John Lee Curtis "Sonny Boy" Williamson was an American blues harmonica player and singer-songwriter. He is often regarded as the pioneer of the blues…
Cha Eun-woo
1997
Cha Eun-woo
Lee Dong-min, known professionally as Cha Eun-woo (Korean: 차은우, Korean pronunciation: [t͡ɕʰa ɯn u]), is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a…
Tracy Chapman
1964
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter. She was signed to Elektra Records by Bob Krasnow in 1987. The following year she released her…
Chunseong
1891
Chunseong
Lee Chang-rim, also known by his Dharma name Chunseong and the art name Muaedoin, was a Korean Buddhist monk, scholar, poet, writer, and philosopher.
Piers Morgan
1965
Piers Morgan
Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan is an English broadcaster, journalist, television personality, and writer. He began his career in 1988 at the tabloid The…
Francisco Goya
1746
Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th…
André Fontaine
1921
André Fontaine
André Fontaine was a French historian and journalist. He started working at Temps Présent, and then was director at Le Monde in 1947, at the official…
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