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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_30" title="March 30">March 30</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Day" title="Land Day">Land Day</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians" title="Palestinians">Palestinian communities</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976" title="1976">1976</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1861" title="1861">1861</a> – British chemist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crookes" title="William Crookes">William Crookes</a> published his discovery of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallium" title="Thallium">thallium</a></b> using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_emission_spectroscopy" title="Atomic emission spectroscopy">flame spectroscopy</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1867" title="1867">1867</a> – U.S. secretary of state <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Seward" title="William H. Seward">William H. Seward</a> negotiated the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase" title="Alaska Purchase">purchase of Alaska</a></b> from Russia for <span class="nowrap">US$7.2 million</span>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921" title="1921">1921</a>  – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Air_Corps" title="Australian Air Corps">Australian Air Corps</a></b> was disbanded, to be replaced the following day by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Australian_Air_Force" title="Royal Australian Air Force">Australian Air Force</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950" title="1950">1950</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usmar_Ismail" title="Usmar Ismail">Usmar Ismail</a> began shooting <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darah_dan_Doa" title="Darah dan Doa">Darah dan Doa</a></b></i>, widely recognised as the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Indonesia" title="Cinema of Indonesia">Indonesian film</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981" title="1981">1981</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinckley_Jr." title="John Hinckley Jr.">John Hinckley Jr.</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ronald_Reagan" title="Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan">shot and wounded</a></b> U.S. president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> and three others outside the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Hilton" title="Washington Hilton">Washington Hilton</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_%C5%81yszczy%C5%84ski" title="Kazimierz Łyszczyński">Kazimierz Łyszczyński</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1689); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth_Vig%C3%A9e_Le_Brun" title="Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun">Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1842); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celine_Dion" title="Celine Dion">Celine Dion</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1968)</p>