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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2016

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  • Published Mar 29, 2016 4:25 pm KST
  • Updated Mar 29, 2016 4:25 pm KST

Today is Wednesday, March 30, the 91st day of 2016. There are 275 days left in the year.

1533 — Henry VIII divorces his first wife, Catherine of Aragon

1533 — Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury

1822 — Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory

1870 — 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race

1870 — Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union

1912 — French protectorate in Morocco established

1919 — Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act

1923 — Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard University in 1920, incorporates