This day in history March 30, 2019
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Started by metmike - March 30, 2019, 12:47 a.m.

Pick one for us or just read em and remember or learn about history. 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_30


1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.

https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/alaska.html


 Treaty with Russia for the Purchase of Alaska

                                     

                           Portrait of Secretary of State William H. Seward, officer of the United States government
Portrait                          of Secretary of State William H. Seward, officer of                          the United States Government.
Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington,                          D.C.), photographer.
[Between 1860 and 1865].
Prints                          and Photographs Division.
Reproduction Number:
LC-DIG-cwpb-04948
                      

                  

On March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement                    to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. The                    Treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by Secretary                    of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the United                    States Edouard de Stoeckl. Critics of the deal to purchase                    Alaska called it "Seward’s Folly” or “Seward’s                    Icebox." Opposition to the purchase of Alaska subsided                  with the Klondike Gold Strike in 1896.


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By metmike - March 30, 2019, 12:50 a.m.
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1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.


President Reagan shot

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-reagan-shot


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Jid5uRFo4


By silverspiker - March 30, 2019, 7:23 p.m.
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....  7.2 Million for

.... ALASKA   ??? ...


that was a worthy purchase..... !!!

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.....    MY TWO =  2 CENTS PER / ACRE WORTH >>><<< !!!


By silverspiker - March 30, 2019, 7:29 p.m.
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 with the Klondike Gold Strike in 1896...


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Miner panning for gold in a stream during the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.

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