This Day in History — March 30

2/3 Burrowed Days from April

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National Days:

- I am in Control Day

- Doctors Day

- Pencil Day (im holding a pipette)

- Virtual Vacation Day

- Take a Walk in the Park Day

- Turkey Neck Soup Day

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What Happened:

— 1282 - The people of Palermo revolt against the Angevin king Charles I by massacring 2,000 French residents in the Sicilian Vespers

— 1791 - President Washington proclaimed boundary of new capital city on Potomac River

— 1822 - Florida Territory created in the U.S.

— 1842 - Dr. Crawford Long of Jefferson, GA used Ether anesthesia for the first time

~placed an ether-soaked towel over the face of James Venable and removed a tumor from his neck

— 1856 - The Treaty of Paris was signed

~ended the Crimean War

— 1858 - Hyman Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser

~explains the national day

— 1867 - Alaska is purchased from Russia due to pressure from Secretary of State William Seward (Seward’s Folly) for $7.2 million

~or slightly more than $0.02 an acre

~”The decision was mocked as “Seward's folly,” because it was a well-known fact that Russia had been attempting to sell Alaska since before the American Civil War. Seward's critics were silenced, however, following the Klondike gold rush, in which ~$50 million was mined—enough to justify the price of the purchase many times over.” -Britannica

— 1868 - Impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began

~3 presidents have been impeached

1. Andrew Jackson in 1868 - for violating the Tenure of Office Act by firing his Secretary of War

2. Bill Clinton in 1998 - on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice stemming from a scandal with a White House intern Lewinsky

~for lying about sleeping with Monica in the Oval Office

• Her famous blue dress with DNA scientifically

proved his guilt

3. Donald Trump twice in 2019 & 2021 - abuse of power and obstruction of Congress and second for incitement of insurrection

~bogus!

4. Richard Nixon in 1974 - resigned before being impeached by the House and conviction by the Senate because of the Watergate scandal (spying on opponents)

— 1870 - Texas readmitted to Union

~last Confederate state

— 1870 - Congress adopts the 15th Amendment

~the right to vote regardless of race

— 1910 - The University of Southern Mississippi is founded

— 1912 - The Treaty of Fès established the French protectorate in Morocco

— 1950 - Bell Telephone Labs announces invention of the phototransistor

— 1961 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in N.Y. City

~regulation on drugs for medical and scientific use

~pharmaceuticals are legal drug dealers

— 1972 - The last rum ration issued in the Royal Canadian Navy

— 1981 - President Ronald Reagan shot and seriously wounded outside Washington Hilton hotel in D.C. by would-be assassin John W. Hinckley, Jr.

~barely two months after his inauguration as the 40th president of the United States

~Special Agent Tim McCarthy was wounded after intentionally stepping into the line of fire

— 1987 - An anonymous buyer purchased Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers

~paid over $39 million

~on Van Gogh’s bday!

— 2003 - A law banning cigarette smoking in all places of employment went into effect in New York City

~including restaurants and bars

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Birth/Death:

— Robert Bunsen (Mar. 1811-1899): German chemist

~observed that each element emits a light of characteristic wavelength

~from Göttingen, Westphalia

— Vincent van Gogh (Mar. 1853-1890): Dutch artist

~cut his ear off bc of ‘ringing’ (mental health crisis) & he delievered it to a lady of the night worker at a brotel

~also bc of arguments with Paul Gauguin over “Yellow House” shared artwork

~famous art works: Starry Nights, Sunflower Series, the Scream, the Potato Eaters, the Bedroom, etc.

~”one of the greatest Post-Impressionists, known for works that convey not only keen observations of nature but the anguish of a mental illness” -Britannica

— Mary Calkins (Mar. 1863-1930): One of the first key females in psychology

~works = informed theory, research of memory, dreams, and the self

— Max Tishler (Mar. 1906-1989): Chemist

~synthesized Vitamin B2 and developed an antibiotic for poultry

— Arthur Wightman (Mar. 1922-2013): Physicist

~co-founder of the axiomatic approach to quantum field theory

— John Astin (Mar. 1930-Still Living): Actor

~remembered as Gomez on OG The Addams Family

~i LOVEEEE THIS MAN AS Gomez

— Naomi Sims (Mar. 1949-2009): first Black supermodel

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Sources: nationaldaycalendar, farmersalmanac, Britannica

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