- On This Day

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