Once Upon A Time – March 30 – 1867 – US Buys Alaska From Russia For $7,200,000 ($109 Million In 2018), Roughly 2 Cents An Acre

240 BC 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet

1856 The Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Great Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Paris ending the Crimean War

1867 Alaska Purchase: US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 ($109 million in 2018), roughly 2 cents an acre

1870 15th Amendment to the US constitution is adopted, guarantees right to vote regardless of race

1959 Dalai Lama flees China, granted political asylum in India

1972 Northern Ireland’s Government and Parliament dissolved by the British Government and ‘direct rule’ from Westminster is introduced

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TODAY IN FILM & TV

1981 “Chariots of Fire” directed by Hugh Hudson and starring Ben Cross and Ian Charleson premieres at a Royal Command Film Performance (Best Picture 1982)

TODAY IN MUSIC

1970 Miles Davis’s influential double album “Bitches Brew” released

TODAY IN SPORT

1990 Jack Nicklaus makes his debut on the Senior PGA Tour with a 71 (-1) in the first round of The Tradition at Desert Mountain; wins the event by 4 strokes from Gary Player

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1987 Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” sells for a record 22.5 million pounds ($39.7 million)

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1984 World’s most valuable tip – New York police detective Robert Cunningham offers waitress Phyllis Penzo half of $1 lottery ticket, next day they win $6 million