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.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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  Crawford Long
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  William H. Seward
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  Merv Griffin, creator of the game show Jeopardy!
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  Marcos Pontes
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  Ronald Reagan
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  Wang Jingwei

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day in Trinidad and Tobago	stub
1867 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska for US$7.2 million from Russia.	unreferenced section
1912 – Sultan Abdelhafid signed the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.	refimprove, short
1961 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, an international treaty aimed against the illicit manufacture and trafficking of narcotic drugs, was signed.	most of the references are dead links
2006 – Aboard Soyuz TMA-8, on a mission to the International Space Station, Marcos Pontes became the first Brazilian in space.	Refimprove

Eligible

• 1842 – American physician Crawford Long became the first person to use diethyl ether as an anesthetic in a surgical procedure.

• 1954 – The Yonge–University–Spadina line, the first subway in Canada and the busiest in Toronto, opened.

• 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.

• 1972 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces began the Easter Offensive in an attempt to gain as much territory and destroy as many units of the South Vietnamese Army as possible.

• 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 Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

• 2009 – Twelve gunmen attacked the Manawan Police Training School in Lahore, Pakistan, and held it for several hours before security forces could retake it.

March 30: Holy Saturday (Western Christianity, 2013); Land Day (Palestinians)

• 1282 – Sicilians began to rebel against the rule of the Angevin King Charles I of Naples, starting the War of the Sicilian Vespers.

• 1822 – The United States merged East Florida and West Florida to create the Florida Territory.

• 1918 – Bolshevik and Dashnak forces suppressed a Muslim revolt in Baku, Azerbaijan, resulting up to 30,000 deaths.

• 1940 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Wang Jingwei was officially installed by Japan as head of a puppet state in China.

• 1950 – Usmar Ismail (pictured) began filming Darah dan Doa, formally recognised as the first Indonesian film.

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• March 29
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• March 31