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Today in History: March 30

240 BC 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1492 King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella sign a decree expelling all Jews from Spain.

1856 The Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Great Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Paris ending the Crimean War

1867 Alaska Purchase: US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 ($109 million in 2018), roughly 2 cents an acre

1870 The 15th amendment, guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race, passes.

1916 Mexican bandit Pancho Villa kills 172 at the Guerrero garrison in Mexico.

1950 President Harry S Truman denounces Senator Joe McCarthy as a saboteur of U.S. foreign policy.

1981 President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded in Washington, D.C. by John W. Hinckley Jr.

1987 Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers is bought for $39.85 million.

2020 Russian city Moscow begins a city-wide lockdown after 4 hours notice due to COVID-19

2020 Three out of four Americans now ordered to stay home due to COVID-19 as states of Virginia, Maryland, Arizona and Florida issue lockdowns

2023 Key figures in Artificial Intelligence including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak sign open letter warning the race to develop AI systems is out of control, asking for suspension for at least six months


Born on March 30

1853 Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch impressionist artist.

1883 Jo Davidson, American sculptor.

JOTD
A 7 yr old and a 4 yr old are in their bedroom...

The 7 yr old looks at his brother and says, "I think it's time we start swearing"
The brother nods in agreement.
"When we go downstairs, I'll be the first to swear and then you swear" says the 7 yr old.
The two brothers go downstairs and the mother asks what they want for breakfast.
"I'll have a bowl of cocoa puffs, bitch!"
The mother smacks the kid so hard that he flies out of his chair.
The mother asks the 4 yr old what he wants. Stunned, the 4 yr old says, "I don't know, but it won't be fricking cocoa puffs!"