What happened today, and who was born/died

BIRTHS
03/30/1719	Sir John Hawkins, wrote 1st history of music in English
03/30/1853	Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear
EVENTS
03/30/1842	Dr. Crawford Long, first uses ether as an anesthetic.
03/30/1853	Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for a pencil with an ERASER!
03/30/1867	US purchases Alaska for $7,200,000 (Seward's Folly)
03/30/1870	15th Amendment passed, guarantees right to vote to all races
03/30/1932	Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic solo
03/30/1950	Invention of the Phototransistor is announced at Murray Hill, NJ

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