Daily Calendar for Monday, March 30, 2026

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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (Britain’s beloved “Queen Mum” was the mother of Queen Elizabeth II) – 2002
Timi Yuro (singer) – 2004

President Washington proclaimed boundary of new capital city on Potomac River – 1791
Dr. Crawford Long of Jefferson, GA, placed an ether-soaked towel over the face of James Venable and removed a tumor from his neck. This was the first recorded use of anesthesia – 1842
H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, patented the first pencil with eraser – 1858
America bought Alaska from Russia due to pressure from Secretary of State William Seward (Seward’s Folly). The price was $7.2 million, or slightly more than $0.02 an acre – 1867
Impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began – 1868
Texas readmitted to the Union – 1870
Queensboro Bridge, the first double-decker, opened in New York City – 1909
Official opening of Canada’s first subway (Toronto) – 1954
Woody Guthrie’s song This Land is Your Land copyrighted – 1956
Jeopardy! game show made its television debut – 1964
The last rum ration was issued in the Royal Canadian Navy – 1972
President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded outside a Washington, D.C., hotel – 1981
An anonymous buyer paid over $39 million for Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers – 1987
Possible UFO seen, Little Fox Lake, Yukon Territory – 2000
Superathletes Kirill Shimko and Pavel Soroka pulled five railway cars more than 20 feet – 2007

Hurricane-force winds uprooted trees and brought high tides to the coast and heavy snows inland from Pennsylvania to Maine – 1823
In North Dakota, heavy rain and snowmelt around Fargo produced severe flooding – 2006
A line of thunderstorms and tornadoes tore up homes and knocked down power lines in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska – 2006