March 30

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March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap years). There are 276 days remaining.

Events:

• 1867 - Alaska is purchased.

Births:

• 1746 - Francisco Goya, painter (+ 1828)
• 1798 - Luise Hensel, poet (+ 1876)
• 1811 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, chemist and inventor of the Bunsen burner (+ 1899)
• 1844 - Paul Verlaine, lyric poet
• 1853 - Vincent van Gogh, painter (+ 1890)
• 1879 - Coen de Koning, speed skater
• 1880 - Sean O'Casey, dramatist (+ 1964)
• 1914 - Sonny Boy Williamson
• 1945 - Eric Clapton, blues guitarist

Deaths:

• 2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of United Kingdom

Holidays and observances:

• Roman Empire - Festival devoted to Salus

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