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• ...that the Piner Creek watershed is home to a historic round barn (pictured), one of the early architectural features of Sonoma County, California?
• ...that the British colonial Administrator Sir Robert Codrington was influential in establishing British colonial government in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland and making them different in character from white-settler-led Southern Rhodesia?
• ...that rhymed prose has been popular in various cultures, ranging from medieval Arabic maqamat to modern rap?
• ...that Polish general Józef Zając held military decorations from Poland, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austro-Hungary, and the short-lived state of Central Lithuania?
• ...that a 1968 court challenge to the right of Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, born "Elizabeth", to inherit his family baronetcy rested on the question of his gender?
• ...that Kolkata West International City has one of the largest foreign direct investments in township projects in India?
• ...that Brigadier General Mihiel Gilormini, founder of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, the UK's Royal Air Force, and the United States Army Air Corps during World War II?

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• Following a provincial general election that saw no party win more than 39% of the seats, the Liberal Party retains power in Quebec (flag pictured) as the province's first minority government in 129 years.
• Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi is declared the winner of the Mauritanian presidential election.
• In Northern Ireland, members of the DUP and Sinn Féin, led respectively by Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams, meet face-to-face for the first time, and agree on a timetable for implementing the St Andrews Agreement.
• Iran's Revolutionary Guards detain fifteen British Royal Navy personnel assigned to HMS Cornwall, alleging they illegally entered Iranian waters.
• Jamaican police are treating the death of Pakistan cricket team coach Bob Woolmer during the ongoing Cricket World Cup as a case of murder.

March 30: Education and Sharing day in the United States (2007); Spiritual Baptist Shouter Liberation Day in Trinidad and Tobago.

• 1867 - U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska for US$7.2 million from Russia.
• 1912 - Sultan Abdelhafid signed the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
• 1940 - World War II: Wang Jingwei (pictured) was installed by Japan as head of the puppet government in China.
• 1961 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, an international treaty aimed against the illicit manufacture and trafficking of narcotic drugs, was signed.
• 1981 - John Hinckley, Jr. shot and wounded U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three others outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Recent days: March 29 – March 28 – March 27

March 31: Mawlid in Sunni Islam (2007); César Chávez Day in various U.S. states, Freedom Day in Malta.

• 1854 - Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy signed the Treaty of Kanagawa, forcing the opening of Japanese ports to American trade.
• 1889 - The Eiffel Tower (pictured) was inaugurated in Paris.
• 1903 - New Zealand inventor Richard Pearse reportedly flew in one of the first flying machines.
• 1917 - The Danish West Indies became the U.S. Virgin Islands after the United States paid Denmark US$25 million for the Caribbean islands.
• 1930 - Hollywood movie studios instituted the Production Code to avoid government censorship.

Recent days: March 30 – March 29 – March 28