On This Day...

[Skyfire77]

On March 30th:

It's National Doctors' Day

• 1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
• 1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
  
• 1856 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
• 1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km2), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
• 1870 – Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
• 1981 – 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.
• 1982 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
• 2017 – SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket when Falcon 9 B1021, which launched CES-8 on 8 April 2016, was used to launch SES-10.
  

This date marks the birth of:

• 1853 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch-French painter and illustrator (d. 1890)
• 1874 – Charles Lightoller, 2nd officer on the RMS Titanic (d. 1952)
• 1894 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer, founded Ilyushin Aircraft Company (d. 1977)
• 1926 – Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman, founded IKEA (d. 2018)
• 1930 – John Astin, American actor
  
• 1933 – Joe Ruby, American animator, co-founder of Ruby-Spears Productions, co-creator of Scooby-Doo (d. 2020)
• 1937 – Warren Beatty, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1941 – Graeme Edge, English singer-songwriter and drummer, co-founder of The Moody Blues.
• 1945 – Eric Clapton, English guitarist and singer-songwriter
• 1950 – Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor
• 1956 – Paul Reiser, American actor and comedian
• 1958 – Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor and stand-up comedian
• 1962 – MC Hammer, American rapper and actor
• 1964 – Tracy Chapman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 – Piers Morgan, English journalist, talk show host and punching bag
  
• 1968 – Celine Dion, Canadian singer-songwriter

As well as the death of:

• 1986 – James Cagney, American actor and dancer (b. 1899)
• 2020 – Bill Withers, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
  
• 2021 – G. Gordon Liddy, chief operative in the Watergate scandal (b. 1930)

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@Skyfire77

1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.

Which is why doctor's day is today.

[WilliamsSW]

@Skyfire77 John Astin was in a million different show in the 60s and 70s it seems. And he’s still around at 92!

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