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Notable anniversaries in history for today: March 30
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of Innis Newton Palmer; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers).
- 80th: 1944 - 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg, Germany.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Gerrit Komrij; Dutch poet/essayist (Happy Schizo).
- 70th: 1954 - Test Cricket debut of Garry Sobers versus England at Kingston.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Corey Millen in Cloquet, Minnesota, USA; NHL center (Calgary Flames).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Dave Ellett in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Tracy Chapman; US singer/songwriter ("Freedom Now", "I Got a Fast Car").
- 60th: 1964 - Willem CN Andriessen, Dutch composer/pianist (Beethoven), dies at age 76.
- 60th: 1964 - NBC-TV debuts game show Jeopardy, hosted by Art Fleming.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Martin Love; cricket player (high scoring Queensland batsman, Australia 1995).
- 50th: 1974 - Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Reborn in Freedom), dies at age 79.
- 40th: 1984 - US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force.
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Karl Rahner in Innsbruck, Austria (born in Freiburg, Germany); Jesuit priest, writer, professor of theology at the universities of Innsbruck, Munich and Münster.
- 40th: 1984 - Fox releases the film Romancing the Stone to theaters.
- 40th: 1984 - Peter Yarrall, strongest Englishman/weighed 826 pounds (374.7kg), dies.
- 30th: 1994 - ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe.
- 30th: 1994 - Albert Goldman, American rock biographer (Elvis Presley, John Lennon), dies at age 66.
- 30th: 1994 - Bombay beats Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy.
- 30th: 1994 - England Cricket all out for 46 at Port-of-Spain.
- 15th: 2009 - General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner is ordered to step down by US President Barack Obama.
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