On This Day:
Monday March 30, 2015 This is the 89th day of the year, with 276 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: reverse dictionary A reverse dictionary is unconventional in that it goes from "meaning" or "concept" to the word you want. So if you want to know what the symbol ~ is called, you look under "symbol ~ on a keyboard" and you get the answer: "swung dash".
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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