Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 30
This is a list of selected March 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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March 30: Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day in Trinidad and Tobago
- 1282 – Sicilians began to rebel against the rule of the Angevin King Charles I of Naples, starting the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
- 1912 – Sultan Abdelhafid signed the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
- 1940 – World War II: Wang Jingwei was installed by Japan as head of the puppet government in China.
- 1964 – Jeopardy!, the popular game show created by Merv Griffin where contestants must phrase their responses in the form of a question, made its debut on the NBC television network.
- 1981 – Trying to impress actress Jodie Foster, obsessed fan John Hinckley, Jr. shot and wounded U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three others outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C..
- 2006 – Aboard Soyuz TMA-8, on a mission to the International Space Station, Marcos Pontes (pictured) became the first Brazilian to go into space.