On this day, 30 Mar...
1791 - After a proposal by the Académie des sciences, the French National Assembly finally chose that a metre would be a 1/10 000 000 of the distance between the north pole and the equator.
1842 - Physician Dr Crawford W. Long of Jefferson, Georgia, first used ether as an anaesthetic during a minor operation. He placed an ether-soaked towel over the face of James Venable and removed a tumour from his neck. This event predated Morton's public demonstration of ether by four years.
1843 - The first U.S. patent for an egg incubator was issued to Napoleon E. Guerin of New York City. It described a "mode of distributing steam heat, purifying air, etc." for hatching chickens by artificial heat.
1844 - The 30 Mar issue of the Illustrated London News reported the construction in Paris of a “vast balloon of copper. It was about 10-yards diam, of copper sheets 1/200-inch thick, weighed 800-lb, would contain 100-lb of hydrogen, and the Parisian journals stated that a French aeronaut would ascent with it.
1858 - The first U.S. patent for a combination lead pencil and eraser was issued to Hyman L. Lipman, of Philadelphia.
1899 - Black American inventor James Ricks has issued a patent for “Improvements in the Rough-Shoeing of Horses,” which was an overshoe or sleet shoe clamped with a wide band over the ordinary shoe.
1919 - MK Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act.( The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act, 1919 popularly known as the Rowlatt Act was a legislative act passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in Delhi on March 18, 1919, indefinitely extending the emergency measures of preventive indefinite detention, incarceration without trial and judicial review enacted in the Defence of India Act 1915 during the First World War).
1923 - The Cunard liner Laconia arrived in New York City, becoming the first passenger ship to circumnavigate the world, a cruise of 130 days.
1949 - New Union of Greater Rajasthan was ceremonially inaugurated by Patel when the existing Union of Rajasthan was joined by four premier states of Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur and Jaisalmer. Hiralal Shastri became its first Chief Minister.
1959 - Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India.
1981 - US President Ronald Reagan was shot at close range as he left the Washington Hilton Hotel about one mile from the White House.
The attacker John Hinckley was charged with trying to assassinate the president and in the following June, Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was committed to a hospital.
1987 - Vincent Van Gogh 30th March 1987: An anonymous foreign buyer purchased Vincent Van Gogh's masterpiece 'Sunflowers' for nearly $36.3 million.
1999 - A jury in Portland, Oregon, in a landmark case ordered Philip Morris to pay $81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades.
2002 - England: The Queen Mother died in her sleep today at the age of 101.
2012 - Japan has stated that if North Korea launches a rocket in April and it flies into Japan's territory, the country will not hesitate to shoot it down if necessary. South Korea made a similar statement earlier in the week, saying that if it was necessary they too would shoot the rocket down.
Born
1906 - General KS Thimayya, former Chief of Indian Army.
1908 - Devika Rani, famous film actress. (Devika Rani Chaudhuri, usually known as Devika Rani was active during the 1930s and 1940s. Widely acknowledged as the first lady of Indian cinema).
1913 - B. S. Soman, first Admiral of India.
RIP
2002 - Anand Bakshi, lyricist. (Bakhshi Anand Prakash Vaid was fond of writing poetry since his youth, but he did this mostly as a private hobby. He joined the Indian Army, Corps of Signals
And left after serving little over two years. He got his break writing songs in a Brij Mohan film titled Bhalaa Aadmi in 1958).
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