• Today is Sunday, March 30, the 89th day of 2014. There are 276 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously wounded outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by assailant John W. Hinckley Jr. Also wounded in the attack were White House press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, and District of Columbia police officer Thomas Delahanty.
• On this date:
• In 1135, the Jewish philosopher Maimonides was born in Cordoba in present-day Spain.
• In 1822, Florida became a United States territory.
• In 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward reached agreement with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million.
• In 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited denying citizens the right to vote and hold office on the basis of race, was declared in effect by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. Texas was readmitted to the Union.
• In 1909, the Queensboro Bridge, linking the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, opened.
• In 1923, the Cunard liner RMS Laconia became the first passenger ship to circle the globe as it arrived in New York.
• In 1945, the Soviet Union invaded Austria during World War II.
• In 1959, a narrowly divided U.S. Supreme Court, in Bartkus v. Illinois, ruled that a conviction in state court following an acquittal in federal court for the same crime did not constitute double jeopardy.
• In 1964, John Glenn withdrew from the Ohio race for the U.S. Senate because of injuries suffered in a fall. The original version of the TV game show "Jeopardy!," hosted by Art Fleming, premiered on NBC.
• In 1974, the Ramones' first concert took place at Performance Studio in New York.
• In 1984, the adventure-romantic comedy "Romancing the Stone," starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, was released by 20th Century Fox.
• In 2002, Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth died at Royal Lodge, Windsor, outside London; she was 101 years old.

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