Almanac for March 30th

Erin O'Riordan's almanac for March 30th: https://ko-fi.com/post/March-30-Van-Gogh-Z8Z81CNLUV

Beatles Trivia

March 30, 1967: The Beatles photograph the album cover photo of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Artists Jann Haworth and Peter Blake have designed the image, which portrays the group in colorful pseudo-military uniforms, surrounded by wax sculptures of themselves and numerous cardboard cutouts of famous people. Among those depicted by the cutouts are Lenny Bruce, William S. Burroughs, Lewis Carroll, Stephen Crane, Bob Dylan, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Carl Jung, Marilyn Monroe, Edgar Allan Poe, Dylan Thomas, H.G. Wells, Mae West, and Oscar Wilde.

Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Vincent Van Gogh

Bummer March 30th

March 30, 1968: Former Disney child actor Bobby Driscoll, who appeared in Song of the South and Treasure Island, is found dead in an abandoned apartment in the East Village of New York City. He is 31 years old. He has died of heart failure related to his use of heroin. 

March 30, 1981: In an assassination attempt, U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot by an assailant who also wounds Press Secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent, and a Washington, D.C. police officer in the attack. Brady is severely injured, and when he dies in 2014, his death is classed as a homicide since it is directly related to his injuries. Police officer Thomas Delahanty suffers nerve damage that ends his career. Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, shot in the liver, diaphragm, and lung, makes a full recovery. 

Reagan’s extremely low blood pressure when he reaches the hospital indicates he almost certainly would have died, had he not been rushed into emergency surgery so promptly. Special Agent Jerry Parr most likely saved Reagan’s life by ordering Reagan’s driver to take the president to George Washington University Hospital.

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