March 30
Today in America's Present Past
1768 | Alexander Hamilton’s mistress, Maria Reynolds, was born.
1822 | Congress: The bifurcated West and East Florida are combined into a single territory.
1849 | Indian Wars: The Jicarilla War started.
1858 | Entrepreneur Hymen Lipman patented the pencil with an eraser.
1861 | Outlaw Gratton Hanley “Grat” Dalton was born.
1867 | The US bought Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2c per acre).
1870 | Statehood: Texas became the last Confederate state readmitted to the Union.
1873 | The Colfax County, New Mexico War starts.
1883 | Sculptor Jo Davidson was born.
1893 | The US appointed its first ambassador to England, Thomas F. Bayard.
1909 | New York’s Queensboro Bridge opened.
1937 | Actor Warren Beatty was born.
1964 | Entertainer Tracy Chapman was born.
1964 | TV: “Jeopardy” debuted.
1967 | Author Jean Toomer died.
1979 | Entertainer Norah Jones was born.
1981 | POTUS: A gunman in Washington, D.C, wounded Republican President Reagan.
1981 | Publisher DeWitt Wallace died.
1986 | Actor James Cagney died.
2005 Activist Fred Korematsu died. Korematusu challenged Roosevelt’s interment EO (9066) all the way to SCOTUS.
2005 | Poet Robert Creeley died.
2021 | Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy died.
2023 | Satirist Mark Russell died.
2023 | POTUS: A Grand Jury indicted former President Trump.