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March 30: This Day in World Military History

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0     Feast of St. Quirinus of Neuss, Patron of Knights, Soldiers, and Cavalrymen
430     Battle of Mold: St. Germanus defeats the Picts and Saxons
988     Boudouin/Baldwin IV "the Bearded" becomes Count of Flanders (988-1037),
1191     King Philip II of France sails from Sicily for the Holy Land (3rd Crusade)
1282     "Sicilian Vespers" begin: Palermitans massacre French occupiers, initiating a successful war to transfer the island to the Catalans
1296     Battle of Berwick: King Edward I defeats Sir William Douglas & the Scottish Nobles
1533     Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon
1603     Battle of Mellifont: English defeat the Irish
1639     Massacre of Aberdeen: Montrose's Scots Covenanters slaughter the Royalists
1814     Battle of Clichy: Austro-Russo-Prussians defeat the French
1844     Battle of Santiago de los Caballeros: Dominicans defeat the Haitians
1856     Triumphal reception at Paris for Napoleon III to welcome the French Army returning from the Crimea.
1863     Pr Wilhelm Georg of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg becomes King George I of Greece (1863-1913)
1942     SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
1944     TF 58 begins raids on Palau, Yap, and Ulithi.
1945     Soviet troops enter Austria
1961     NASA pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 51,690 m
1981     Pres. Ronald Reagan and two others are wounded in an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, Jr.

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