30 March 1361

A Monday in history

Weekday

Monday

Season

Spring (N. Hemisphere)

Century

14th century

Records

387

  1. 2023

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

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  2. 2009

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

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  3. 2002

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

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  4. 1977

    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.

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  5. 1972

    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.

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  6. 1964

    Jeopardy!, the popular American game show created by Merv Griffin, made its debut on the NBC television network.

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  7. 1950

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

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  8. 1921

    The Australian Air Corps was disbanded, to be replaced the following day by the Australian Air Force.

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  9. 1918

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

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  10. 1912

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

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  11. 1867

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

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  12. 1863

    George I (pictured) became King of the Hellenes.

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  13. 1861

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

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  14. 1822

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

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  15. 1815

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

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  16. 1730

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

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  17. 1282

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

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