TODAY IN HISTORY - March 30th:

1943 - Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" premieres in NYC
1981 - Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley, Jr.  Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity.    Shortly after his trial he wrote "the shooting was the greatest love offering in the history of the world" and he was upset that actress Jodie Foster did not reciprocate his love.

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I1987 - 59th Academy Awards - "Platoon", Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win
1987 - Vincent van Goghs "Sunflowers" sells for record 22.5M pounds ($39.7 million)
1992 - 64th Academy Awards - "Silence of Lamb", Anthony Hopkins & Jodie Foster win

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1853 - Vincent van Gogh, Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, artist, painter and pioneer of Expressionism
1937 - Warren Beatty, Richmond Va, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Shampoo, Dick Tracy)
2007 - "Little Big Town" singer-guitarist Phillip Sweet (33) weds Rebecca Arthur at Cedarvine Manor in Lebanon, Tennessee

GOODBYE TO:

1986 - James Cagney, actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies in NY at 86
2002 - Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother of the United Kingdom, dies at 101

 

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