30 March 1294

Donald Trump became the first former U.S. president to be indicted by a grand jury.

The Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan, was attacked and held for several hours by 12 gunmen, resulting in 16 deaths and 95 injuries.

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, widow of King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II, died at Royal Lodge aged 101.

Annie Hall had its first screening at the LA Film Festival; it was voted the funniest screenplay ever by members of the Writers Guild of America.

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

Usmar Ismail began shooting Darah dan Doa, widely recognised as the first Indonesian film.

Four days of inter-ethnic clashes broke out in Baku, Azerbaijan, resulting in about 12,000 deaths.

Sultan Abd al-Hafid signed the Treaty of Fes, making Morocco a French protectorate.

U.S. secretary of state William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for US$7.2 million.

George I (pictured) became King of the Hellenes.

British chemist William Crookes published his discovery of thallium using flame spectroscopy.

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

Joachim Murat, King of Naples, issued the Rimini Proclamation, among the earliest calls for Italian unification.

The Author's Farce, by Henry Fielding, premiered at the Little Theatre in London.

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

Donald Trump becomes the first former United States president to be indicted by a grand jury.

Pope Francis visits Morocco.

The Israeli Army kills 17 Palestinians and wounds 1,400 in Gaza during Land Day protests.

SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.

Min Aung Hlaing is appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces.

Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the Australian region makes landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.

Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.

Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament (MP), is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.