On This Day:
Sunday March 30, 2014 This is the 89th day of the year, with 276 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: beavers Beavers are furry rodents. They live near water for protection because they have small legs and do not move very well on land. They are very busy creatures, spending most of their time searching for food and for trees to build their dams and lodges. They have long, sharp teeth, which are always growing; it is important for the beavers to keep them trim by continuously gnawing on trees and branches. In fact, beavers' teeth can grow as much as four feet per year. A beaver's tail is wide, hairless, and flat, and is used for steering and balancing, for storing fat, and for sending warning signals. When a beaver senses danger, it beats its tail in the water as a warning, and the sound can be heard up to 1,000 feet away. Beavers can do some damage to the environment when they build their dams; apart from humans, no other creatures have such a dramatic effect on the landscape.
Holidays Feast day of St. Osburga, St. John Climacus, St. Zosimus of Syracuse, St. Ludolf, St. Leonard Murialdo, and St. Rieul.
Trinidad and Tobago: Spiritual Baptist Liberation Shouter Day.
Events 1775 - The British Parliament passed an act forbidding its North American colonies to trade with anyone other than Britain.
1814 - The European forces (Allies) against Napoleonic France captured Paris, formally ending a decade of French domination on the Continent.
1822 - Florida became a United States territory.
1842 - Dr. Crawford W. Long of Georgia, was the first to use ether as an anesthetic during an operation.
1856 - The Crimean War was brought to an end by the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
1858 - Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patented the pencil with an eraser attached on one end.
1867 - U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward reached agreement with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million. At the time, many called it "Seward's Folly."
1870 - Texas was readmitted to the Union, the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted.
1870 - The 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, went into effect.
1909 - The Queensboro Bridge -- the first double-decker bridge -- linking the New York boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, opened.
1945 - The Soviet Union invaded Austria during World War II.
1964 - "Jeopardy" developed by Merv Griffin, aired on TV for the first time.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John W. Hinckley, Jr. White House press secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent, and a District of Columbia police officer were also wounded.
1998 - Rolls-Royce was purchased by German automaker BMW.
Births 1746 - Francisco de Goya (Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes), Spanish painter.
1853 - Vincent (Willem) van Gogh, Dutch Post-Impressionist painter.
1880 - Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright.
1937 - Warren Beatty, American actor, director, producer.
Deaths 2002 - Queen Mother Elizabeth of England.
2004 - Alistair Cooke, British-born journalist and television and radio host.
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