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30-March-1853 Vincent Van Gogh born
30-March-1856 Crimean war ends
Essentially a war between the major empires of europe with Britain, France, Turkey and Austria on one side and Russia on the other. Russia was the loser in the end.
For further information see: http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_crimean.html
30-March-1913 Frankie Laine born
30-March-1930 John Astin born
30-March-1930 Rolf Harris born
30-March-1930 Peter Marshall born
30-March-1937 Warren Beatty born
30-March-1940 Astrud Gilberto born
30-March-1945 Eric Clapton born
30-March-1951 Rosenbergs found guilt of spying in New York
Ethel and Julius Rosenburg were at the centre of a soviet spy ring in the US that passed secrets from the US Atomic Weapons programme to the Soviets and was instrumental in them aquiring the bomb. The Rosenburgs were subsequently executed.
For further information see: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROSENB.HTM
30-March-1957 Paul Reiser born
30-March-1962 M.C. Hammer born
30-March-1964 Ian Ziering born
30-March-1968 Celine Dion born
30-March-1976 Matt Doran born
30-March-1979 Norah Jones born
30-March-1979 MP Airey Neave killed by car bomb
30-March-1981 President Ronald Regan shot
John Hinckley shot the president, along with a press aid, a policeman and a Secret Service office to impress the Actress Jodie Foster. A nice bunch of flowers or box of Cadburys Mini Heros might have been a better idea.
He was eventually found to be insane, John Hinckley that is not the President although......
For further information see: http://www.paperlessarchives.com/reagan_assassination_attempt.html
30-March-1983 Scott Moffatt born
30-March-2002 The Queen mother dies
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