On March 30

Donald Trump became the first former U.S. president to be indicted by a grand jury.

The Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan, was attacked and held for several hours by 12 gunmen, resulting in 16 deaths and 95 injuries.

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, widow of King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II, died at Royal Lodge aged 101.

Annie Hall had its first screening at the LA Film Festival; it was voted the funniest screenplay ever by members of the Writers Guild of America.

Vietnam War: North Vietnamese forces began the Easter Offensive in an attempt to gain as much territory and destroy as many South Vietnamese units as possible.

Jeopardy!, the popular American game show created by Merv Griffin, made its debut on the NBC television network.

Usmar Ismail began shooting Darah dan Doa, widely recognised as the first Indonesian film.

The Australian Air Corps was disbanded, to be replaced the following day by the Australian Air Force.

Four days of inter-ethnic clashes broke out in Baku, Azerbaijan, resulting in about 12,000 deaths.

Sultan Abd al-Hafid signed the Treaty of Fes, making Morocco a French protectorate.

U.S. secretary of state William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for US$7.2 million.

George I (pictured) became King of the Hellenes.

British chemist William Crookes published his discovery of thallium using flame spectroscopy.

The United States merged East Florida and West Florida to create the Florida Territory.

Joachim Murat, King of Naples, issued the Rimini Proclamation, among the earliest calls for Italian unification.

The Author's Farce, by Henry Fielding, premiered at the Little Theatre in London.

Sicilians began to rebel against the rule of the Angevin King Charles I of Naples, starting the War of the Sicilian Vespers.