Today in History (March 30th)

1981 President Reagan shot

American Revolution
1775 King George endorses New England Restraining Act

Automotive
2009 President Obama announces auto industry shakeup

Civil War
1825 Samuel Bell Maxey born

Cold War
1948 Henry Wallace criticizes Truman’s Cold War policies

Crime
1981 Ronald Reagan is shot by John Hinckley, Jr.

Disaster
1980 Oil workers drown in North Sea

General Interest
1814 Allies capture Paris
1855 Violence disrupts first Kansas election
1867 Seward’s Folly
1870 15th Amendment adopted

Hollywood
1981 Obsessed Jodie Foster fan John Hinckley Jr. shoots President Reagan

Literary
1820 Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty, is born

Music
1974 John Denver has his first #1 hit with “Sunshine On My Shoulders”

Old West
1891 “Sockless” Simpson rallies populist farmers

Presidential
1981 Reagan is shot

Sports
1965 Bill Bradley scores 58 points for Princeton

Vietnam War
1965 Bomb explodes outside U.S. Embassy in Saigon
1972 North Vietnamese launch Nguyen Hue Offensive

World War I
1918 Allied troops halt Germans at Moreuil Wood

World War II
1940 Japanese set up puppet regime at Nanking