March 30th
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 starts.
1861 | Outlaw Gratton Hanley "Grat" Dalton was born.
1867 | The US bought Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000.
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 opens.
1937 | Actor Warren Beatty was born.
1964 | Entertainer Tracy Chapman was born.
1967 | Writer Jean Toomer died.
1979 | Entertainer Nora Jones was born.
1981 | POTUS: A gunman in Washington, D.C, wounds Republican President Reagan.
1981 | Publisher DeWitt Wallace died.
1986 | Actor James Cagney died.
2005 Activist Fred Korematsu died.
2005 | Poet Robert Creeley died.
2021 | Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy died.
2023 | Satirist Mark Russell died.
2023 | A Grand Jury indicts former President Trump.