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Events on March 30

• 1796 Carl Friedrich Gauß uses a compass and straightedge to determine a construction method for a seventeen-sided polygon.
• 1867 The Russian Tsardom sells Alaska to the USA for 7.2 million US dollars. The Alaska Purchase for the acquisition of Russian America is set in motion by US Secretary of State William H. Seward and the Russian ambassador in Washington, Eduard von Stoeckl.
• 1931 Because of an article published more than two years earlier about the secret structure of an air force, author Walter Kreiser and Weltbühne publisher Ossietzky are charged with treason. The Weltbühne trial is regarded as a model example of political justice in the Weimar Republic.
• 1938 The eighth prototype of the German fighter aircraft Heinkel He 100, the He 100 V8, reaches an average speed of 746.61 km/h, which at the time meant the absolute world speed record.
• 1945 In World War II, Soviet troops capture the city of Danzig, and US forces occupy Heidelberg.
• 1954 In Toronto, the first section of the Yonge-University line of the Toronto Subway goes into operation. It is the first subway in Canada
• 1971 The Act Against Aircraft Noise, the first environmental protection law of the Social Liberal coalition, enters into force in the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 1978 Austrian Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky visits East Germany as the first Western head of government.
• 1981 John Hinckley, Jr. injures US President Ronald Reagan in an assassination attempt in Washington, D.C. He wants to gain the attention of the actress Jodie Foster with this attempt.
• 2006 A strongly worded letter from the faculty of the Rütli School in Berlin about untenable conditions and school violence at this Neukölln secondary school becomes public.
• 2010 The CERN nuclear research organization succeeds for the first time in producing a proton collision. In doing so, the conditions that prevailed a few seconds after the Big Bang are simulated.
• 2012 The German pair skaters Aljona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy win the world championship title in figure skating for the fourth time and thereby match the title record of the German pair Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier.

Born on March 30

• 1853 Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter and draughtsman
• 1880 Seán O’Casey, Irish playwright
• 1892 Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician
• 1900 Santos Urdinarán, Uruguayan footballer
• 1940 Astrud Gilberto, American singer and composer
• 1950 Robbie Coltrane, British actor
• 1960 Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, German clergyman
• 1960 Christoph M. Ohrt, German actor
• 1971 Peyman Amin, German booker and model agent
• 1972 Karel Poborský, Czech footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „30. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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