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On March 30, 598: 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.

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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.

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Born on March 30

Anastasia Potapova 2001– Russian-born Austrian tennis player (born 2001)
Colton Herta 2000– American racing driver (born 2000)
Kalyn Ponga 1998– Australian rugby league footballer
Cha Eun-woo 1997– South Korean singer and actor (born 1997)
Ryan Noda 1996– American baseball player (born 1996)
Zay Jones 1995– American football player (born 1995)
Alex Bregman 1994– American baseball player (born 1994)
Jetro Willems 1994– Dutch footballer (born 1994)
Anitta 1993– Brazilian singer-songwriter (born 1993)
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Palak Muchhal 1992– Indian singer, philanthropist (born 1992)
NF 1991– American rapper and singer-songwriter (born 1991)
Thomas Rhett 1990– American country singer (born 1990)
Michal Březina 1990– Czech figure skater
Chris Sale 1989– American baseball player (born 1989)
João Sousa 1989– Portuguese tennis player (born 1989)
Will Matthews 1988– Australian rugby league footballer
Thanasis Papazoglou 1988– Greek footballer (born 1988)
Richard Sherman 1988– American football player (born 1988)

People

Died on March 30

Chan Santokhi President of Suriname from 2020 to 2025
Tim McGovern American visual effects artist (1955–2024)
Chance Perdomo American and British actor (1996–2024)
Doug Mulray Australian media presenter (1951–2023)
G. Gordon Liddy American FBI agent, lawyer and Watergate criminal (1930–2021)
Myra Frances British actress (1942–2021)
Manolis Glezos Greek journalist, politician, and folk hero (1922–2020)
Bill Withers American musician (1938–2020)
Bill Maynard English comedian and actor (1928–2018)
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Helmut Dietl German film director and author
Roger Slifer American comic book writer, screenwriter, and television producer (1954–2015)
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld Dutch astronomer (1921–2015)
Kate O'Mara English actress (1939–2014)
Alice Raftary American educator
Daniel Hoffman American poet and essayist
Bobby Parks American basketball player (1961–2013)
Phil Ramone South African-born American record producer (1934–2013)
Edith Schaeffer American author

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Every March 30 on record

  1. 598 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.

    Battles conducted by the Byzantine Emperor (582 to 602)

    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.

  2. 1282 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. 2 million in and around the capital city of Palermo, it is both the largest and most populous island in the Mediterranean Sea.

  3. 1296 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.

  4. 1699 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.

  5. 1815 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.

  6. 1818 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.
  7. 1822 The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
  8. 1841 The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.
  9. 1842 Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
  10. 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.
  11. 1855 Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
  12. 1856 The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
  13. 1861 Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium.
  14. 1863 Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
  15. 1867 Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about two cents/acre ($4.19/km2), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
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  1. 1870 Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
  2. 1885 The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empires.
  3. 1899 German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
  4. 1900 Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover the first clay tablet with hieroglyphic writing in a script later called Linear B.
  5. 1912 Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
  6. 1918 Beginning of the bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate.
  7. 1939 The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745 km/h).
  8. 1940 Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.
  9. 1944 World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
  10. 1944 World War II: In a raid on Nuremberg, RAF Bomber Command suffers its greatest loss of the war, losing 95 bombers from a force of 795.
  11. 1945 World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna. Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig.
  12. 1949 Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
  13. 1959 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
  14. 1961 The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
  15. 1965 Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.

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