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On this day — March 30

A hand-curated thread of what happened on this date, across centuries.

2023

Politics

Donald Trump becomes the first former United States president to be indicted by a grand jury.

2019

Milestone

Pope Francis visits Morocco.

2018

Milestone

The Israeli Army kills 17 Palestinians and wounds 1,400 in Gaza during Land Day protests.

2017

Milestone

SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.

2011

Milestone

Min Aung Hlaing is appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces.

2009

Milestone

Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore

Pakistan.

2008

Milestone

Drolma Kyi arrested by Chinese authorities.

2006

Milestone

Cyclone Glenda

one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the Australian region makes landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.

2002

Milestone

The 2002 Lyon car attack takes place.

1982

Milestone

Space Shuttle program

STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

1981

Politics

U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.

three others are wounded in the same incident.

1979

Politics

Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament (MP)

is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.

1976

Milestone

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

in the first organized response against Israeli policies by a Palestinian collective since 1948, Palestinians create the first Land Day.

1972

Politics

Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.

1967

Milestone

Delta Air Lines Flight 9877 crashes at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport

killing 19.