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On this day - March 30
From the Bolton Evening News, first published Tuesday 30th Mar 2004.
1746: Spanish court painter Francisco de Goya was born in Fuendetodos.
1842: Ether was used as an anaesthetic for the first time, by American surgeon Dr Crawford Long.
1853: Artist Vincent van Gogh was born in the Dutch village of Groot-Zundert.
1867: Alaska was bought by America from Russia for 7.2 million - less than two cents an acre.
1880: Playwright Sean O'Casey was born in Dublin.
1964: The seaside resort of Clacton was the scene of pitched battles by gangs of mods and rockers.
1981: US President Reagan was wounded in an assassination bid outside Washington's Hilton Hotel.
1986: James Cagney, American tough-guy actor, died aged 86.
1987: Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh was sold at auction by Christie's for £24,750,000.
1991: Seven million people in Sudan were faced with starvation after drought and crop failure.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: A Territorial Army nurse ordered to Iraq told today how she was forced to pay £85 for her own body armour.
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