Page 8: Historical Events In March - 30
Thursday, 02 July 2026
1993 In this year, Jamaican premier Percival Patterson claims parliamentary election. 

1993 Jeremy Siegrist, actor (Adv of Darly and Samy), dies hiking at 20. 

1994 Albert Goldman, rock biographer (Elvis, John Lennon), dies at 66. 

1995 Graham Anthony Richard Lock, cricketer, dies at 65. 

1996 Prince Edward and girl-friend Sophie Rhys-Jones visited Greystoke Castle 

1996 Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist, dies at 78. 

1999 A jury in Portland, Oregon, orders Philip Morris to pay $US81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades 

2006 The al-Dana capsizes off the coast of Bahrain, killing at least 48 people. 

2006 The inaugural Brazilian astronaut, Marcos Pontes, goes to space in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-8, at 2:29:00 CET. 

2006 The inaugural World Baseball Classic ends in San Diego, California with Japan beating Cuba in the Championship. 

2012 Spanish Government cuts 27 Billion Euros from its budget in one of its toughest austerity driver in history 

2013 North Korea declares it is at a state of war with South Korea 

2017 North Carolina repeals its controversial bathroom law that restricted transgender use. 

2017 Venezuela Supreme Court takes over legislative powers of the National Assembly, opposition calls it a coup. 

2017 Ex-South Korean president Park Geun-hye arrested in corruption investigation. 

2017 SpaceX conducts the world's inaugural reflight of an orbital class rocket. 

2018 Palestinians begin a "Great March of Return", 6 weeks of protests on the Gaza Strip demanding Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to Israel. 19 Palestinians killed, 1416 injured on the inaugural day. 

2019 Pope Francis arrives in Rabat, Morocco, on his inaugural-ever visit to the Magreb region of Northern Africa. 

2019 Swedish gamer and YouTuber PewDiePie overtaken by Indian channel T-Series as YouTube channel with most subscribers (both on 92 million) 

2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war: The price of Brent Crude falls 9% to $23 per barrel, the lowest level since November 2002 

2023 Former US President Donald Trump is indicted by a Manhattan Grand Jury on charges over hush payments paid to porn star Stormy Daniels - 1st US President to face criminal charges [1]. 

2023 Key figures in Artificial Intelligence including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak sign open letter warning the race to develop AI systems is out of control, asking for suspension for at least six months [1] [2] 

2023 The International Court of Justice rules that the United States violated its Treaty of Amity with Iran when it allowed its domestic courts to freeze assets held by Iranian companies.April 2 - The Bulgarian parliamentary election results in a GERB—SDS–PP–DB coalition government headed by Nikolai Denkov as prime minister, and ends two years of political deadlock. 

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