03-30-2005, 04:55 AM
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Location: Maryland
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March 30th
1746 ~ Birthday of Francisco Goya, Spanish painter and engraver.
1820 ~ Birthday of Anna Sewell, British author.
1842 ~ Anesthesia (ether) was used for the first time in an operation.
1853 ~ Birthday of Vincent van Gogh, Painter.
1870 ~ Texas was readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
1912 ~ France established a protectorate over Morocco.
1945 ~ World War II: Soviet Union forces invaded Austria and took Vienna.
1951 ~ Remington Rand delivered the first UNIVAC I computer to the U.S. Census Bureau.
1977 ~ Death of Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer.
1987 ~ Vincent Van Gogh's painting Sunflowers was bought for $39.85 million.
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