March 30 in History

45 events 598 – 2023

March 30 spans 45 recorded events across recorded history — from 598 – 2023. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date.

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

2017 — SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket

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SpaceX was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs.

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The company is headquartered at the Starbase development site in Starbase, Texas.

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SpaceX has made significant advances in rocket propulsion and reusable launch vehicles since its founding.

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The company works closely with NASA and the United States Armed Forces through governmental contracts.

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As of 2026, SpaceX conducts more orbital launches annually than any other launch provider, including the Chinese space program.


Avar–Byzantine wars: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis.
Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic army is decimated by the plague.
Maurice's Balkan campaigns were a series of military expeditions conducted by Roman Emperor Maurice in an attempt to defend the Balkan provinces of the Roman Empire from the Avars and the South Slavs. Maurice was the only East Roman emperor, other than Anastasius I, who did his best to implement determined Balkan policies during Late Antiquity by paying adequate attention to the safety of the northern frontier against barbarian incursions. During the second half of his reign, the Balkan campaigns were the main focus of Maurice's foreign policies, as a favourable peace treaty with the Persian Empire in 591 enabled him to shift his experienced troops from the Persian front to the region. The refocusing of Roman efforts soon paid off: the frequent Roman failures before 591 were succeeded by a string of successes afterwards.
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598
Sicily
The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
Island in the Mediterranean, region of Italy
Sicily, officially the Sicilian Region, is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea and one of the twenty regions of Italy, situated south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe. With over 4.7 million inhabitants, including 1.2 million in and around the capital city of Palermo, it is both the largest and most populous island in the Mediterranean Sea.
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1282
Edward_I
Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
King of England from 1272 to 1307
Edward I, also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he was Lord of Ireland, and from 1254 to 1306 ruled Gascony as Duke of Aquitaine in his capacity as a vassal of the French king. Before his accession to the throne, he was commonly referred to as the Lord Edward.
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1296
Guru_Gobind_Singh
Guru Gobind Singh establishes the Khalsa in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab.
Tenth Sikh guru from 1675 to 1708
Guru Gobind Singh was the tenth and last human Sikh Guru. He was a warrior, poet, and philosopher. In 1675, at the age of nine, he was formally made the leader of the Sikhs after his father Guru Tegh Bahadur—the ninth Sikh Guru—was executed by the emperor Aurangzeb. His four biological sons died during his lifetime—two in battle and two executed by the Mughal administrator Wazir Khan.
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1699
Joachim_Murat
Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation, among the earliest calls for Italian unification.
French military officer and statesman (1767–1815)
Joachim Murat was a French Army officer and statesman who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Under the French Empire he received the military titles of Marshal of the Empire and Admiral of France. He was the first Prince Murat, Grand Duke of Berg from 1806 to 1808, and King of Naples as Joachim-Napoleon from 1808 to 1815.
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1815
Augustin-Jean_Fresnel
Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.
French optical physicist (1788–1827)
Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, fully supplanting Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s  until the end of the 19th century. He is perhaps better known for inventing the catadioptric (reflective/refractive) Fresnel lens and for pioneering the use of "stepped" lenses to extend the visibility of lighthouses, saving countless lives at sea. The simpler dioptric stepped lens, first proposed by Count Buffon  and independently reinvented by Fresnel, is used in screen magnifiers and in condenser lenses for overhead projectors.
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1818
Florida_Territory
The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
Organized incorporated territory of the United States (1822–1845)
The Territory of Florida was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 30, 1822, until March 3, 1845, when it was admitted to the Union as the state of Florida. Originally the major portion of the Spanish territory of La Florida, and later the provinces of East Florida and West Florida, it was ceded to the United States as part of the 1819 Adams–Onís Treaty. It was governed by the Florida Territorial Council.
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1822
National_Bank_of_Greece
The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.
Large bank in Greece
The National Bank of Greece is a banking and financial services company with its headquarters in Athens, Greece. Founded in 1841 as the newly independent country's first financial institution, it has long been the largest Greek bank, a position it still held in the early 21st century. Following the financial turmoil of the Greek government-debt crisis in the 2010s, it remains one of Greece's four dominant banks together with Alpha Bank, Eurobank Ergasias, and Piraeus Bank. It has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank. NBG offers financial products and services for corporate and institutional clients along with private and business customers. Services include banking services, brokerage, insurance, asset management, shipping finance, leasing and factoring markets.
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1841
Diethyl_ether
Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr.
Crawford Long.
Diethyl ether, or simply ether is an organic compound with the chemical formula (CH3CH2)2O, belonging to the ether class. It is a colourless, highly volatile, sweet-smelling, and extremely flammable liquid. It is a common solvent and was formerly used as a general anesthetic.
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1842
Battle_of_Santiago_(1844)
One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
Part of the Dominican War of Independence
The Battle of Santiago was the second major battle of the Dominican War of Independence and was fought on the 30 March 1844, at Santiago de los Caballeros, Santiago Province. Although outnumbered, Dominican troops, part of the Army of The North and led by General José María Imbert, defeated Haitian Army troops led by General Jean-Louis Pierrot.
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1844
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20 people 1987 – 2001
Anastasia Potapova
Anastasia Potapova
Russian tennis player
Anastasia Sergeyevna Potapova is a Russian-born Austrian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 21 by the WTA, achieved on 19 June 2023, and a doubles ranking of world No. 40, reached…
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2001
Colton Herta
Colton Herta
American race car driver
Colton Thomas Herta is an American racing driver who competes in the FIA Formula 2 Championship for Hitech with support from Cadillac. Herta competed in the IndyCar Series from 2018 to 2025.
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2000
Kalyn Ponga
Kalyn Ponga
Australian rugby league player
Kalyn Ponga is a professional rugby league footballer who captains and plays as a fullback for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League and Queensland in the State of Origin series. He is the recipient of the…
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1998
Cha Eun-woo
Cha Eun-woo
South Korean singer, actor, and model
Lee Dong-min, known professionally as Cha Eun-woo (Korean: 차은우, Korean pronunciation: [t͡ɕʰa ɯn u]), is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Astro, and debuted as a solo artist…
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1997
Ryan Noda
Ryan Noda
American baseball player
Ryan Anthony Noda is an American professional baseball first baseman in the Baltimore Orioles organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics and Chicago White Sox.
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1996
Zay Jones
Zay Jones
American football player
Isaiah Avery "Zay" Jones is an American professional football wide receiver. He played college football for the East Carolina Pirates. Jones is the all-time NCAA Division I career receptions leader with 399 as well as…
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1995
Alex Bregman
Alex Bregman
American baseball player
Alexander David Bregman is an American professional baseball third baseman for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox.
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1994
Jetro Willems
Jetro Willems
Dutch footballer
Jetro Danovich Sexer Willems is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left wing-back or left-back for Eredivisie club NEC.
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1994
Anitta
Anitta
Brazilian singer and entertainer
Larissa de Macedo Machado, known professionally as Anitta, is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and occasional television host. One of Brazil's most prominent artists, she became known for her versatile…
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1993
Palak Muchhal
Palak Muchhal
Indian playback singer
Palak Muchhal is an Indian playback singer and lyricist. Muchhal performs as a playback singer across Hindi films and other Indian film industries. She has rendered her voice in Hindi films such as Ek Tha Tiger (2012),…
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1992
NF
NF
American rapper
Nathan John Feuerstein, known professionally as NF, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He has released three EPs, I'm Free (2012),, a self-titled EP in 2014 with Capitol CMG, and Fear in…
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1991
Thomas Rhett
Thomas Rhett
American country music singer and songwriter
Thomas Rhett Akins Jr. is an American country music singer-songwriter. He is the oldest son of singer Rhett Akins.
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1990
Michal Březina
Michal Březina
Czech figure skater
Michal Březina is a retired Czech figure skater. He is the 2013 European bronze medalist, 2011 Skate America champion, 2009 World Junior silver medalist and four-time Czech national champion. He also won the 2014-15 ISU…
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1990
Chris Sale
Chris Sale
American baseball player
Christopher Allen Sale is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox. He throws…
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1989
João Sousa
João Sousa
Portuguese tennis player
João Pedro Coelho Marinho de Sousa, known as João Sousa, is a Portuguese former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 28 on 16 May 2016 and a doubles ranking of No. 26 on 13…
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1989
Will Matthews
Will Matthews
Australian rugby league player
Will Matthews is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer.
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1988
Thanasis Papazoglou
Thanasis Papazoglou
Greek footballer
Thanasis Papazoglou, commonly known also as Sakis Papazoglou, is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a striker.
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1988
Richard Sherman
Richard Sherman
American football player
Richard Kevin Sherman is an American former professional football cornerback who played 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Stanford Cardinal, beginning his career as a…
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1988
Larisa Yurkiw
Larisa Yurkiw
Canadian alpine skier
Larisa Yurkiw is a Canadian retired World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in the speed events of downhill and super-G.
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1988
Trent Barreta
Trent Barreta
American wrestler
Gregory Marasciulo, better known by the ring name Trent Beretta, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of the Don Callis Family and one-half of RPG Vice…
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1987
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20 people 2012 – 2026
Chan Santokhi
Chan Santokhi
Surinamese politician, 9th President of Suriname (born 1959)
Chandrikapersad "Chan" Santokhi was a Surinamese politician and police officer who served as the ninth president of Suriname from 2020 to 2025. After winning the 2020 elections, Santokhi was the sole nominee for…
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2026
Tim McGovern
Tim McGovern
American visual effects artist (born 1955)
Tim McGovern was an American visual effects artist. He won a Special Achievement Academy Award in the category Best Visual Effects for the film Total Recall.
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2024
Chance Perdomo
Chance Perdomo
British-American actor (born 1996)
Chance Perdomo was an American and British actor. He earned a British Academy Television Award nomination for his performance in the BBC Three film Killed by My Debt (2018). He gained further prominence through his…
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2024
Doug Mulray
Australian radio and television host (born 1951)
Douglas John Mulray was an Australian comedian, radio, and television presenter. Nicknamed Uncle Doug, he grew up in Dee Why on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Mulray was well-known for his bawdy humor and charismatic…
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2023
G. Gordon Liddy
G. Gordon Liddy
chief operative in the Watergate scandal (born 1930)
George Gordon Battle Liddy was an American lawyer and FBI agent who was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration.
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2021
Myra Frances
British actress (born 1942)
Myra Frances was a British actress known for her role in the drama series Survivors and in Doctor Who.
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2021
Manolis Glezos
Manolis Glezos
Greek left-wing politician, journalist, author, and folk hero (born 1922)
Manolis Glezos was a Greek left-wing politician, journalist, author, and guerrilla fighter most famous for his role in the Greek Resistance during World War II. After the end of the war, Glezos became a journalist and…
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2020
Bill Withers
Bill Withers
American singer-songwriter (born 1938)
William Harrison Withers Jr. was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. Born in Slab Fork, West Virginia, and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, he is known for having several hits over a career spanning 18…
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2020
Bill Maynard
Bill Maynard
English actor (born 1928)
Walter Frederick George Williams, better known by his stage name Bill Maynard, was an English comedian and actor. He began working in television in the 1950s, notably starring alongside Terry Scott in Great Scott – It's…
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2018
Helmut Dietl
German director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1944)
Helmut Dietl was a German film director and author from Bad Wiessee.
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2015
Roger Slifer
Roger Slifer
American author, illustrator, screenwriter, and producer (born 1954)
Roger Allen Slifer was an American comic book writer, screenwriter, and television producer who co-created the character Lobo for DC Comics. Among the many comic-book series for which he wrote was DC's Omega Men for a…
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2015
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1921)
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld was a Dutch astronomer.
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2015
Kate O'Mara
Kate O'Mara
English actress (born 1939)
Kate O'Mara was an English film, stage and television actress, and writer. O'Mara made her stage debut in a 1963 production of The Merchant of Venice. Her other stage roles included Elvira in Blithe Spirit (1974),…
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2014
Alice Raftary
Alice Raftary
American educator of blind adults (born 1927)
Alice Geisler Raftary was an American educator, based in Detroit, who specialized in education and rehabilitation for newly blind adults.
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2014
Daniel Hoffman
American poet and academic (born 1923)
Daniel Gerard Hoffman was an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973.
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2013
Bobby Parks
American basketball player and coach (born 1962)
Bobby Ray Parks Sr. was an American professional basketball player from Grand Junction, Tennessee. He played for Memphis State University from 1980 to 1984 and played internationally in the Philippines, Indonesia and…
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2013
Phil Ramone
Phil Ramone
South African-American songwriter and producer, co-founded A & R Recording (born 1934)
Philip Rabinowitz, better known as Phil Ramone, was a South African-born American recording engineer, record producer, violinist and composer, and co-founder of A & R recording studio. Its success led to expansion into…
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2013
Edith Schaeffer
Chinese-Swiss religious leader and author, co-founded L'Abri (born 1914)
Edith Rachel Merritt Schaeffer was a Christian author and co-founder of L'Abri, a Christian organization which hosts guests. She was the wife of Francis Schaeffer, and the mother of Frank Schaeffer and three other…
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2013
Bob Turley
Bob Turley
American baseball player and coach (born 1930)
Robert Lee Turley, known as "Bullet Bob", was an American professional baseball player and financial planner. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a pitcher from 1951 through 1963. After his retirement from…
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2013
Janet Anderson Perkin
Janet Anderson Perkin
Canadian baseball player and curler (born 1921)
Janet Margaret Anderson was a Canadian pitcher and outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) during the 1946 season. She batted and threw right handed. Anderson was one of the…
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2012
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Reagan Assassination Attempt — March 30, 1981
Reagan Assassination Attempt — March 30, 1981

1981: President Ronald Reagan shot by John Hinckley Jr. outside Washington Hilton Hotel, a bizarre act to impress actress Jodie Foster

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What happened on March 30?

A featured event on this date is 2017: SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket. This page also lists 45 events from other years on the same day.

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March 30 brings together events, births, and deaths across many eras, which makes it useful for seeing how one calendar date connects different historical turning points.

Who was born on March 30?

Notable birthdays on this date include Anastasia Potapova, Colton Herta, Kalyn Ponga.

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Notable deaths on this date include Chan Santokhi, Tim McGovern, Chance Perdomo.

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What happened on March 30 in history?

On March 30, one notable event in history was 2017: SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket..

This date currently highlights 45 recorded events on thisDay.info, spanning 598 – 2023.

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