Today in History: Anesthesia Used in a Surgery for the First Time

March 30 is the 89th day of the year (90st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 276.

Railways

• 30 March 1917 The British agent Lavvrence and the accompanying 230 rebel group attacked Ebülnaim Station with two cannons and machine guns, destroyed the 40 meter-long rail and became a martyr in the 4 guard.
• March 30, 1920 Telegraph wires were cut between Eskişehir and Ağaçpınar. March 30, 2005 The locomotives produced for Iraqi Railways by the General Directorate of TÜLOMSAŞ were introduced with a ceremony.

Events

• 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Coalition forces enter Paris.
• 1842 - Anesthesia was applied for the first time in an operation.
• 1856 – Crimean War; The Russian Empire ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris between the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom, and France.
• 1858 - Hymen Lipman patented the eraser pencil.
• 1863 – Darüşşafaka, the first non-governmental organization in the field of education, was established in Turkey.
• 1863 - Prince Wilhelm Georg of Denmark becomes King of Greece.
• 1867 - Alaska was purchased by the US Secretary of State, William H. Seward, from the Russian Empire for $7.2 million. The media reported this event on this purchase, which came to $4.19 per square kilometer. Seward's stupidity described as.
• 1918 – The clashes between the Baku Soviet and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation forces, the Musavat Party and the Caucasian Cavalry Division began in and around Baku. The conflicts, called the March Events, continued until 3 April 1918.
• 1945 – II. World War II: USSR forces enter Vienna, Austria.
• 1951 – In the USA, the couple Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were sentenced to death for allegedly working for the Soviet Union and selling the USA's nuclear secrets to that country. The executions were carried out in June 1953.
• 1951 – The “Remington Rand” company delivers the first commercial computer, the UNIVAC I, to the US Census Bureau. UNIVAC I was developed by the engineers who designed ENIAC.
• 1971 – A proposal was submitted to the Senate for the recitation of the Adhan in Turkish, but the proposal was not accepted.
• 1972 – Kızıldere Incident: Mahir Çayan and nine of his friends were killed in the house where they were hiding in Kızıldere village of Niksar district of Tokat. All three Britons were found dead in the same house. Only Ertuğrul Kürkçü survived the event.
• 1981 - US President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded in an assassination attempt in Washington, DC.
• 1983 – The 12nd execution of the September 42 Coup: Mustafa Başaran, who killed a person for money and another person who tried to catch him while escaping, was executed in 1976.
• 1983 – 12rd execution of the September 43 Coup: Hüseyin, who went to the house of the family he was herding blood one night, closed the doors and windows so that they could not be opened from the inside, poured gas into the chimney on the roof, threw the gas can inside, burned the house and caused the death of a woman and her four children. The member was executed.
• 1998 – EU started membership negotiations with Cyprus.
• 2005 – The Draft Law on Misdemeanors was passed in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
• 2006 - Marcos Pontes becomes the first Brazilian astronaut in space.
• 2014 – Local elections were held. AK Party became the first party with 42,87 percent of the votes. CHP received 26,34 percent and MHP 17,87 percent.
• 2020 – Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war: Brent oil price drops nine percent per barrel to $2002, the lowest level since November 23.

Births

• 1432 – Mehmet the Conqueror, 7th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1481)
• 1551 – Salomon Schweigger, German Protestant pastor and traveler (d. 1622)
• 1674 – Jethro Tull, English agriculturist (d. 1741)
• 1746 Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (d. 1828)
• 1754 – Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, aviator who managed to cross the English Channel for the first time (d. 1785)
• 1776 – Vasily Tropinin, Russian romantic painter (d. 1857)
• 1810 – Ann S. Stephens, American novelist and magazine editor (d. 1886)
• 1820 – Anna Sewell, English novelist (d. 1878)
• 1844 – Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
• 1852 – James Theodore Bent, English explorer, archaeologist, and author (d. 1897)
• 1853 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
• 1863 Joseph Caillaux, French Prime Minister (d. 1944)
• 1864 – Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist and political economist (d. 1943)
• 1868 – Koloman Moser, Austrian painter and designer (d. 1918)
• 1878 – Franz Fredrik Wathén, Finnish speed skater (d. 1914)
• 1880 – Sean O'Casey, Irish writer (d. 1964)
• Melanie Klein, British psychoanalyst (d. 1960)
• Adolf Henryk Silberschein, Polish-Jewish lawyer (d. 1951)
• Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician (d. 1945)
• Erhard Milch, German marshal (d. 1972)
• Lola Cornero, Dutch film actress (d. 1980)
• 1893 – Theodor Krancke, Admiral of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany (d. 1973)
• 1894 – Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1977)
• 1895 – Franz Hillinger, Austrian architect (d. 1973)
• 1910 – Józef Marcinkiewicz, Polish mathematician (d. 1940)
• 1910 – Ziya Osman Saba, Turkish poet and writer (d. 1957)
• 1911 – Ekrem Akurgal, Turkish archaeologist (d. 2002)
• 1922 – Turhan Bey, Turkish-Austrian actor (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman and founder of IKEA (d. 2018)
• 1928 – Tom Sharpe, English writer (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Anna-Lisa, American actress (d. 2018)
• 1930 – Bernadette Isaac-Sabille, French politician (d. 2021)
• 1934 – Hans Hollein, Austrian architect and designer (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Mahmut Atalay, Turkish national wrestler, World and Olympic champion (d. 2004)
• 1937 - Warren Beatty, American actor
• 1942 – Mehmet Ulusoy, Turkish theater director (d. 2005)
• 1945 – Eric Clapton, English musician
• 1950 – Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor
• 1957 – Shen Yi-ming, Taiwanese soldier and politician (d. 2020)
• 1962 – MC Hammer, American singer
• 1964 – Abu Anas al-Libi, chief of Libyan al-Qaeda (d. 2015)
• 1964 – Tracy Chapman, American singer
• 1968 – Celine Dion, Canadian singer
• 1979 – Norah Jones, American pianist and singer
• 1979 – Simon Webbe, English singer
• 1980 – Yalın, Turkish pop music singer
• 1982 – Philippe Mexes, French football player
• 1983 – Jérémie Aliadière, French football player
• Ryan Donk, Dutch football player
• Sergio Ramos, Spanish football player
• 1988 – Alessandro Felipe Oltramari, Brazilian football player
• 1991 – NF, American rapper
• 2000 – İbrahim Ahmed Acar, Turkish fencer

Deaths

• 1486 – Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1404)
• 1526 – Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1470)
• 1540 – Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German politician and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469)
• 1559 – Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)
• 1587 – Ralph Sadler, English politician (b. 1507)
• 1662 – François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)
• 1689 – Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Polish nobleman, philosopher, and soldier (b. 1634)
• 1707 – Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, French architect (b. 1633)
• 1746 – Ignaz Kögler, German Jesuit and missionary (b. 1680)
• 1764 – Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695)
• 1863 – Auguste Bravais, French physicist (b. 1811)
• 1873 – Bénédict Morel, French physician (b. 1809)
• 1873 – Abraham Salomon Kamondo, Italian Jewish financier and philanthropist (b. 1781)
• 1876 ​​– Antoine Jérôme Balard, French chemist (b. 1802)
• 1894 – Drengman Aaker, American politician and businessman (b. 1839)
• 1896 – Harilaos Trikupis, former Prime Minister of Greece (7 times) (b. 1832)
• 1925 – Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher, educator, scientist, artist, writer, and founder of the anthroposophy (b. 1861)
• 1940 – Walter Miller, American silent film actor (b. 1892)
• 1941 – Vasil Kutinchev, Bulgarian soldier (b. 1859)
• 1949 – Friedrich Bergius, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1956 – Mithat Cemal Kuntay, Turkish writer (b. 1885)
• 1956 – Duff Pattullo, 22nd Prime Minister of British Columbia (b. 1873)
• 1957 – Arif Dino, Turkish painter and poet (b. 1893)
• 1965 – Philip Showalter Hench, American physician (b. 1896)
• 1968 – Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)
• 1972 – Ahmet Atasoy, Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader and THKP-C militant (b. 1946)
• 1972 – Cihan Alptekin, Turkish revolutionary and co-founder of THKO (b. 1947)
• 1972 – Ertan Saruhan, Turkish teacher and activist from THKP-C (b. 1942)
• 1972 – Mahir Çayan, Turkish revolutionary and THKP-C leader (b. 1946)
• 1977 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)
• 1978 – Memduh Tağmaç, 14th Chief of General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces (b. 1904)
• 1986 – James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
• 2004 – Timi Yuro, American singer (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b. 1968)
• 2013 – Phil Ramone, American, 14 Grammy-winning arranger and producer (b. 1934)
• 2016 – Anne Aasheim, Norwegian writer (b. 1962)
• 2020 – Ted Monette, American army colonel (b. 1945)