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March 30

4 sourced moments from March 30 in history: The first surgery under ether: Crawford Long, March 30, 1842; The pencil with an attached eraser was patented (1858); The US agreed to buy Alaska from Russia (1867), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on March 30

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1981 Society & Economy · Crime

President Reagan Was Shot and Survived

Seventy days into his presidency, Ronald Reagan took a bullet outside a Washington hotel and walked into history by surviving it.

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1867 Geography · Borders & Maps

The US agreed to buy Alaska from Russia

On March 30, 1867, Seward struck a $7.2 million deal for Alaska that critics mocked as a frozen folly.

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1858 Technology · Inventions

The pencil with an attached eraser was patented

On March 30, 1858, a Philadelphia stationer fused two everyday tools into one and changed every desk drawer forever.

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1842 Human Body & Mind · Medicine & Disease

The first surgery under ether: Crawford Long, March 30, 1842

A Georgia country doctor operated painlessly under ether four years before Boston's famous demonstration, then waited seven years to publish.

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