March 30

On This Day In History
	1981: Failed assassination attempt against U.S. President Ronald Reagan In Washington, D.C., on this day in 1981, barely two months after his inauguration as the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously wounded by would-be assassin John W. Hinckley, Jr.
U.S. government agents attending to the wounded after the assassination attempt on President Ronald
Biography Of The Day
	Vincent van Gogh Works of one of the greatest Post-Impressionists—Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, born this day in 1853—convey not only keen observations of nature but the anguish of a mental illness that eventually led to his suicide.
Detail of Sunflowers, oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, 1888
More Events On This Day In History
	2003 A law banning cigarette smoking in all places of employment, including restaurants and bars, went into effect in New York City.
2002	2002 Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who was queen consort of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1936–52), died in her sleep at Windsor Castle at age 101.
	1914 American blues vocalist and harmonica virtuoso Sonny Boy Williamson was born in Jackson, Tennessee.
1912	1912 The Treaty of Fès established the French protectorate in Morocco.
	1867 William H. Seward, secretary of state under U.S. President Andrew Johnson, signed the Alaska Purchase, a treaty ceding Russian North America to the United States for a price—$7.2 million—that amounted to about two cents per acre.
1856	1856 The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Crimean War.
	1840 The English dandy Beau Brummell died, destitute and mad, in Caen, France.
1282	1282 The people of Palermo massacred 2,000 French residents in the Sicilian Vespers, a revolt against the Angevin king Charles I.