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• ...that the passing of the Great Comet of 1577 (pictured) caused almost century-long debate, during which Galileo argued that comets were merely optical illusions?
• ...that Cesar Picton, who was enslaved aged six in Senegal, died in England as a wealthy coal-merchant?
• ...that, according to human rights organizations, Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev has been beaten, received death threats and had his father kidnapped due to his criticism of the government?
• ...that three days after a fire gutted the passenger ferry Levina 1, killing at least 49, she sank with a party of journalists and investigators on board, killing at least one more?
• ...that during the Battle of Jarosław in 1939 the Polish Army defended the town for two days before retreating in good order?
• ...that in the 1850s Arnold Guyot measured the elevation of Old Black in the Great Smoky Mountains to within 3 feet (1 m) of the modern value?
• ...that Sir David Robertson initially agreed to mind the constituency of another British parliamentarian who was interned during the Second World War?

• 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.

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