Today in History: Moments That Shaped Our Lives

03/30/1986 - James Cagney dies at his Stanfordville NY farm at 86

03/30/1984 - US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force

03/30/1982 - 3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 returns to Earth

03/30/1981 - Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley Jr

03/30/1973 - Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to S Vietnam

03/30/1964 - John Glenn withdrew from Ohio senate race

03/30/1961 - P.J Melotte - discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae - dies

03/30/1950 - Phototransistor invention announced - Murray Hill - NJ

03/30/1948 - Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi

03/30/1945 - USSR invades Austria during WW II

03/30/1932 - Amelia Earhart 1st woman to solo cross the Atlantic

03/30/1909 - Queensboro Bridge opens linking Manhattan & Queens

03/30/1870 - Tx readmitted to US after Civil War

03/30/1870 - 15th Amendment passes - guarantees right to vote regardless of race

03/30/1867 - US purchases Alaska for $7 -200 -000 (Seward's Folly)

03/30/1858 - Hyman Lipman of Phila patents a pencil with attached eraser

03/30/1842 - Dr. Crawford Long - 1st physician to use ether as anesthetic

03/30/1822 - Fla became a US territory