On This Day
30 March
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1664 Guru Har Krishan, eighth of the ten Sikh Gurus, died. At the age of five, he became the youngest Guru in Sikhism on 7 October 1661, succeeding his father, Guru Har Rai. He contracted smallpox and died before reaching his eighth birthday.
- 1919 Mahatma Gandhi announced resistance against the Rowlatt Act.
- 1949 The state of Rajasthan was formed when Rajputana was merged into the Dominion of India. Jaipur being the largest city was declared as the capital of the state. Rajasthan Diwas is observed on this day every year to commemorate the formation of the state.
- 1959 India granted political asylum to Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, who had fled the Chinese suppression of a national uprising in Tibet.
- 1992 Satyajit Ray, widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, was awarded the Honorary Oscar Award.
- 2005 Shops kept their shutters down as striking traders said they would step up their protest against a new value-added tax (VAT) due to take effect on April 1.
- 2005 O V Vijayan, author and cartoonist, died. Author of Khasakkinte Ithihasam, he was an important figure in modern Malayalam language literature.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1820 Anna Sewell, English novelist, was born. She is known as the author of the 1877 novel Black Beauty, her only published work, which is considered one of the top ten best selling novels for children, although the author intended the work for an adult audience.
- 1842 Ether used as an anaesthetic for first time by Dr Crawford Long of Georgia, US.
- 1850 Charles Dickens published the first issue of his magazine Household Words.
- 1853 Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch artist, was born in Zundert, Netherlands. He produced an estimated 900 paintings and 1200 drawings but sold virtually none of them during his lifetime. After his death, his work sold for record-breaking sums at auctions around the world and was featured in blockbuster touring exhibitions. In 1997 it was reported that more than 100 of his paintings and drawings might be fakes. 300 of his canvasses were painted in the last 15 months of his life.
- 1981 US President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded when a lone gunman opens fire in Washington.
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