30 March

Notable Births

Anastasia Potapova

b. 2001

Russian-born Austrian tennis player (born 2001)

Colton Herta

b. 2000

American racing driver (born 2000)

Kalyn Ponga

b. 1998

Australian rugby league footballer

Cha Eun-woo

b. 1997

South Korean singer and actor (born 1997)

Ryan Noda

b. 1996

American baseball player (born 1996)

Zay Jones

b. 1995

American football player (born 1995)

Alex Bregman

b. 1994

American baseball player (born 1994)

Jetro Willems

b. 1994

Dutch footballer (born 1994)

Anitta (singer)

b. 1993

Brazilian singer and musician (born 1993)

Palak Muchhal

b. 1992

Indian singer, philanthropist (born 1992)

NF (rapper)

b. 1991

American rapper and singer-songwriter (born 1991)

Thomas Rhett

b. 1990

American country singer (born 1990)

Michal Březina

b. 1990

Czech figure skater

Chris Sale

b. 1989

American baseball player (born 1989)

João Sousa

b. 1989

Portuguese tennis player (born 1989)

Will Matthews (rugby league)

b. 1988

Australian rugby league footballer

Tracy Chapman

b. 1964

American singer-songwriter (born 1964)

Vincent van Gogh

b. 1853

Dutch painter (1853–1890)

Anna Sewell

b. 1820

English novelist (1820–1878)

Maimonides

b. 1135

Medieval Jewish philosopher (1135/1138–1204)

Notable Deaths

Tim McGovern

d. 2024

American visual effects artist (1955–2024)

Chance Perdomo

d. 2024

American and British actor (1996–2024)

G. Gordon Liddy

d. 2021

American FBI agent, lawyer and Watergate criminal (1930–2021)

Bill Withers

d. 2020

American musician (1938–2020)

Manolis Glezos

d. 2020

Greek journalist, politician, and folk hero (1922–2020)

Bill Maynard

d. 2018

English comedian and actor (1928–2018)

Roger Slifer

d. 2015

American comic book writer, screenwriter, and television producer (1954–2015)

Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld

d. 2015

Dutch astronomer (1921–2015)

Kate O'Mara

d. 2014

English actress (1939–2014)

Alice Raftary

d. 2014

American educator

Phil Ramone

d. 2013

American record producer (1934–2013)

Bob Turley

d. 2013

American baseball player (1930–2013)

Janet Anderson Perkin

d. 2012

Canadian baseball player

Aquila Berlas Kiani

d. 2012

Indian scholar

Leonid Shebarshin

d. 2012

Soviet intelligence chairman

Jaime Escalante

d. 2010

Bolivian educator, teacher and mathematician

Morris R. Jeppson

d. 2010

United States Army Air Forces officer

Martin Sandberger

d. 2010

German Nazi SS officer (1911–2010)

David Leslie (racing driver)

d. 2008

British racing driver (1953–2008)

Dith Pran

d. 2008

Cambodian-American photojournalist (1942–2008)

On This Day in History

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2023

Donald Trump becomes the first former United States president to be indicted by a grand jury.

Donald Trump

2019

Pope Francis visits Morocco.

Pope Francis

2018

The Israeli Army kills 17 Palestinians and wounds 1,400 in Gaza during Land Day protests.

Israel Defense Forces

2017

SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.

SpaceX

2011

Min Aung Hlaing is appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces.

Min Aung Hlaing

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2009

Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.

2009 Lahore police academy attack

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2008

Drolma Kyi arrested by Chinese authorities.

Drolma Kyi

2006

Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the Australian region makes landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.

Cyclone Glenda

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2002

The 2002 Lyon car attack takes place.

2002 Lyon synagogue attack

1982

Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

Space Shuttle program

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.

Ronald Reagan

1979

Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament (MP), is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.

Airey Neave

1976

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: in the first organized response against Israeli policies by a Palestinian collective since 1948, Palestinians create the first Land Day.

Israeli–Palestinian conflict