On March 30 2011 in history

  1822 - Fla became a US territory
  1842 - Dr. Crawford Long - 1st physician to use ether as anesthetic
  1858 - Hyman Lipman of Phila patents a pencil with attached eraser
  1867 - US purchases Alaska for $7 -200 -000 (Seward's Folly)
  1870 - 15th Amendment passes - guarantees right to vote regardless of race
  1870 - Tx readmitted to US after Civil War
  1909 - Queensboro Bridge opens linking Manhattan & Queens
  1932 - Amelia Earhart 1st woman to solo cross the Atlantic
  1945 - USSR invades Austria during WW II
  1948 - Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi
  1950 - Phototransistor invention announced - Murray Hill - NJ
  1961 - P.J Melotte - discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae - dies
  1964 - John Glenn withdrew from Ohio senate race
  1973 - Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to S Vietnam
  1981 - Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr
  1982 - 3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 returns to Earth
  1984 - US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
  1986 - James Cagney dies at his Stanfordville NY farm at 86
  2006 - The United Kingdom Terrorism Act 2006 becomes a law.