On this day in History - March 30

1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States.

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

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.

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

2023 – Donald Trump becomes the first former United States president to be indicted by a grand jury.