At A Glance

30 March 2023 at a glance

Day of the week
30 March 2023 was a Thursday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus.
Top Film of 2023
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2023 was Barbie.
Star sign
The star sign for 30 March is Aries.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 30 March 2023 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
Birthstone
The birthstone for March is Aquamarine.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 30 March 2023 was Waxing Gibbous.

On this day: 30 March

  • 2008 Drolma Kyi arrested by Chinese authorities.
  • 2011 Min Aung Hlaing is appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces.
  • 2017 SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.
  • 2019 Pope Francis visits Morocco.
  • 2023 Donald Trump becomes the first former United States president to be indicted by a grand jury.

Famous people born on 30 March

  • Warren Beatty, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1937)
  • Celine Dion, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1968)
  • Eric Clapton, English guitarist and singer-songwriter (born 1945)
  • Vincent van Gogh, Dutch-French painter and illustrator (1853–1890)

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Events of 2023 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '2023 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 22 April – Sunak holds an emergency COBRA meeting to discuss the evacuation of British nationals caught up in the Sudan conflict.
  • 13 May – The final of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Liverpool. The contest is won by Sweden's Loreen with the song "Tattoo", who becomes only the second person and the first woman to win the contest twice.
  • 20 June – British businessmen Hamish Harding and Shahzada Dawood, along with Dawood's son, Suleman, are confirmed as being aboard the missing submersible that disappeared during a voyage to see the wreck of the RMS Titanic two days earlier.

Life in 2023

Prime Minister

Rishi Sunak

Monarch

Charles III

Pint of Beer

£4.80

Loaf of Bread

£1.95

Average House

£291,228

Weekly Wage

£1,035.00

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