Today is March 30. On this date in:
1814
The European nations allied against Napoleon marched into Paris.
1822
Florida became a U.S. territory.
1842
Dr. Crawford Long performed the first operation while the patient was anesthetized by ether.
1848
Niagara Falls stopped flowing for one day due to an ice jam.
1867
U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward reached agreement with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million, a deal ridiculed by critics as “Seward’s Folly.”
1870
The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited denying citizens the right to vote and hold office on the basis of race, was declared in effect.
1923
The Cunard liner RMS Laconia became the first passenger ship to circle the globe as it arrived in New York.
1939
The comic book “Detective Comics” issue 27 appeared on newsstands, introducing the character Batman, created by Bob Kane.
1964
John Glenn withdrew from the Ohio race for the U.S. Senate because of injuries suffered in a fall.
1964
The game show “Jeopardy!,” created by Merv Griffin and hosted by Art Fleming, premiered on NBC.
1975
As the Vietnam War neared its end, Communist forces occupied the city of Da Nang.
1981
President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr.; also wounded were White House press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and a District of Columbia police officer, Thomas Delahanty.
1991
Patricia Bowman of Jupiter, Florida, told authorities she’d been raped hours earlier by William Kennedy Smith, the nephew of Sen. Edward Kennedy, at the family’s Palm Beach estate. (Smith was acquitted at trial.)
2004
In a reversal, President George W. Bush agreed to let National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testify publicly and under oath before an independent panel investigating the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
2008
The Army said the remains of Sgt. Keith Matthew Maupin of Clermont County, captured in Iraq in 2004, had been found and identified.
2017
North Carolina rolled back its “bathroom bill” in a bid to end a yearlong backlash over transgender rights that had cost the state dearly in business projects, conventions and basketball tournaments.
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