Birthdays – 30 March
Born on this day:
1930 – John Allen Astin (78) – American actor, best known for Gomez in The Addams Family. Ah, cherie …
1937 - Warren Beatty (71) – American actor, producer, screenwriter, director, husband and a father of 4. Does the name Dick Tracy ring a bell to you? Ask Warren more about Dick. 
1945 – Eric Clapton (53) – British singer, guitarist. He’s also known as Slowhand by the way he plays the guitar.
1853 – Vincent van Gogh – the famous Dutch Post Impressionist painter was born. He died in 1890. Famous for The Potato Eaters
What happened on 30 March back then:
1858 - Hymen Lipman patented the pencil that had an eraser attached to the other end. Wow, that pencil revolutionized the media. The journalists were now able to write and erase their stupidities!
1867 : the state Alaska was purchased for $7.2 million by United States Secretary of State, William H. Seward. All the media called this event the Seward’s Folly. He got himself a nice piece of land. (ironic!)
1981 – President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest outside a Washington hotel. The shooter was John Hinckley Jr. I think that all the maniacs and serial killers live only in America!
