Daily Calendar For Tuesday, March 30, 2021

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Born

• Moses Maimonides (rabbi) – 1135
• Anna Sewell (author) – 1820
• Vincent van Gogh (Dutch artist ) – 1853
• Sean O'Casey (playwright) – 1880
• Jo Davidson (sculptor) – 1883
• Warren Beatty (actor) – 1937
• Eric Clapton (musician) – 1945
• Tracy Chapman (musician) – 1964
• Celine Dion (singer) – 1968
• Secretariat (racehorse) – 1970
• Norah Jones (singer) – 1979
• Scott Moffatt (musician, of The Moffatts) – 1983
• Anna Nalick (musician) – 1984

Died

• Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (Britain’s beloved “Queen Mum” was the mother of Queen Elizabeth II) – 2002
• Timi Yuro (singer) – 2004

Events

• President Washington proclaimed boundary of new capital city on Potomac River – 1791
• Dr. Crawford Long of Jefferson, GA, placed an ether-soaked towel over the face of James Venable and removed a tumor from his neck. This was the first recorded use of anesthesia – 1842
• H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, patented the first pencil with eraser – 1858
• America bought Alaska from Russia due to pressure from Secretary of State William Seward (Seward’s Folly). The price was $7.2 million, or slightly more than $0.02 an acre – 1867
• Impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began – 1868
• Texas readmitted to the Union – 1870
• Queensboro Bridge, the first double-decker, opened in New York City – 1909
• Official opening of Canada’s first subway (Toronto) – 1954
• Woody Guthrie’s song This Land is Your Land copyrighted – 1956
• Jeopardy! game show made its television debut – 1964
• The last rum ration was issued in the Royal Canadian Navy – 1972
• President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded outside a Washington, D.C., hotel – 1981
• An anonymous buyer paid over $39 million for Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers – 1987
• Possible UFO seen, Little Fox Lake, Yukon Territory – 2000
• Superathletes Kirill Shimko and Pavel Soroka pulled five railway cars more than 20 feet – 2007

Weather

• Hurricane-force winds uprooted trees and brought high tides to the coast and heavy snows inland from Pennsylvania to Maine – 1823
• In North Dakota, heavy rain and snowmelt around Fargo produced severe flooding – 2006
• A line of thunderstorms and tornadoes tore up homes and knocked down power lines in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska – 2006