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Historical Events on March 30

  • Sicilian Vespers

    1282

    The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.

  • Border Ruffian

    1855

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

  • Reconstruction Era

    1870

    Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.

  • Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China

    1940

    Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.

  • Handley Page Halifax

    1944

    Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.

  • Vienna

    1945

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

  • United States Embassy, Saigon

    1965

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

  • Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan

    1981

    U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.

  • Reusable launch system

    2017

    SpaceX conducts the world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket.[1][2]

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