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Events

• 1844 (182 years ago) One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
• 1912 (114 years ago) Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
• 1949 (77 years ago) Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
• 1959 (67 years ago) Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
• 1981 (45 years ago) 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.
• 2006 (20 years ago) Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the Australian region makes landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.
• 2019 (7 years ago) Pope Francis visits Morocco.
• 2023 (3 years ago) Donald Trump becomes the first former United States president to be indicted by a grand jury.

Births

• 1135 (891 years ago) Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (April 6 also proposed, d. 1204)
• 1432 (594 years ago) Mehmed the Conqueror, Ottoman sultan (died 1481)
• 1746 (280 years ago) Francisco Goya, Spanish-French painter and sculptor (died 1828)
• 1844 (182 years ago) Paul Verlaine, French poet (died 1896)
• 1853 (173 years ago) Vincent van Gogh, Dutch-French painter and illustrator (died 1890)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Eric Clapton, English guitarist and singer-songwriter
• 1968 (58 years ago) Celine Dion, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1986 (40 years ago) Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer

Deaths

• 1842 (184 years ago) Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter (born 1755)
• 1912 (114 years ago) Karl May, German author (born 1842)
• 1925 (101 years ago) Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher and author (born 1861)
• 1949 (77 years ago) Friedrich Bergius, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)
• 1950 (76 years ago) Léon Blum, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1872)
• 1986 (40 years ago) James Cagney, American actor and dancer (born 1899)
• 2002 (24 years ago) Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Queen Consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom, Empress Consort of India (born 1900)
• 2003 (23 years ago) Michael Jeter, American actor (born 1952)

All 388 events, births and deaths of March 30