March 30<\/p>\n
1822 \u2013 Congress creates the Florida Territory.<\/p>\n
1842 \u2013 Ether is used as an general anesthetic in a surgical operation for the first time, by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia.<\/p>\n
1867 \u2013 Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million by Secretary of State William H. Seward.<\/p>\n
1870 \u2013 Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
\nThe 15th amendment’s ratification to the Constitution is formally certified.<\/p>\n
1900 \u2013 Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover the first clay tablet with hieroglyphic writing in a script later called Linear B<\/em>, the earliest form known of ancient Greek.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 Due to the Tibetan Uprising against communist Chinese oppression;\u00a0 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, fearing arrest at the Chinese National People’s Congress, escapes Tibet and flees to India.<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 The international treaty to control illicit trade in drugs, the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs<\/em> is signed in New York City.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013\u00a0 A car bomb driven by the Viet Cong explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 2 Americans, 1 Filipino U.S. civil servant, 19 Vietnamese and wounding 183 others.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 Delta Air Lines Flight 9877, a Douglas DC-8 on a training flight, crashes at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, killing all 6 crew aboard and 13 more people on the ground.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 President Ronald Reagan and 3 others are wounded by gunfire outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 SpaceX conducts the world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket the Falcon 9.<\/em><\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 G. Gordon Liddy, chief operative in the Watergate scandal dies, age 90,\u00a0at his daughter’s house in Fairfax County, Virginia due to complications of Parkinson’s disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 30 1822 \u2013 Congress creates the Florida Territory. 1842 \u2013 Ether is used as an general anesthetic in a surgical operation for the first time, by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia. 1867 \u2013 Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million by Secretary of State William H. Seward. 1870 \u2013 Texas is readmitted … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91362,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66331\/revisions\/91362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}