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Monday, March 30, 2020
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| 1430 | Sultan Murad II captures Thessaloniki from the Venetians |
| 1461 | Battle of Towton Field |
| 1836 | Santa Anna orders massacre of c. 350 Texian prisoners near Coleto Creek |
| 1865 | Battle of Quaker Road, VA |
| 1935 | French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage |
| 1942 | British cruiser Trinidad torpedoes itself in the Barents Sea |
| 1943 | Meat, butter & cheese rationing begin in the US |
| 1962 | Argentine Pres Arturo Frondizi flees after a military coup |
| 1969 | Communist New People's Army founded in Philippines |
| 1971 | 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai massacre |
| 1973 | Last US troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after the Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
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| 1282 | The Sicilian Vespers: Uprising against French occupation |
| 1492 | King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree expelling Jews from Spain |
| 1533 | Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon |
| 1942 | SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp |
| 1944 | TF 58 begins several days of raids on Palau, Yap, and Ulithi. |
| 1945 | Soviet troops enter Austria |
| 1961 | NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 m) |
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| 1547 | Henri II succeeds Francois I as king of France |
| 1745 | Jews are expelled from Prague |
| 1808 | French-dominated Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names |
| 1814 | Allies capture Paris |
| 1854 | Commodore Perry forces Japan to open its ports to foreign trade |
| 1862 | Battle of Island No. 10, Mississippi River |
| 1863 | Battle of Grand Gulf MS |
| 1865 | Battle of Boydton/White Oaks Road/Dinwiddie Court House), Va |
| 1900 | Anglo-Boer War: De Wet ambushes Broadwood at Sannah's Post |
| 1907 | Romanian Army puts down Moldavian revolt |
| 1917 | US purchases Virgin Is from Denmark for $25 million |
| 1923 | French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die |
| 1939 | Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany |
| 1941 | Senior Army & Navy air defense officers in Hawaii warn of danger of surprise carrier raid from the north. |
| 1942 | Burma: Japanese troops occupy Toungoo, unhinging the Prome-Toungoo Line. |
| 1943 | US accidentally bombs residential area of Rotterdam, 326 die |
| 1944 | Hollandia bombed by the Fifth Air Force. |
| 1944 | Adm Koga of the Combined Fleet, dies in an airplane crash in the Philippines |
| 1964 | Pres Jango Goulart of Brazil ousted in a military coup |
| 1966 | 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in NYC |
| 1967 | NATO headquarters moves to Casteau-Maisisres, Belgium |
| 1968 | LBJ announces he will not seek re-election |
| 1971 | William Calley sentenced to life for My Lai Massacre |
| 1991 | Georgia votes independence from the USSR |
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