Did you know that today is the anniversary of the assassination attempt on President Regan's life? Other interesting facts about March 30th are: in 1974 the Ramones played their first gig at CBGB's. The game show Jeopardy debuted in 1964. In 1867 Alaska was purchased for 7.2 million dollars by the Secretary of State William Seward(a New Yorker by birth), the media at the time called it Seward's Folly, but for 2 cents an acre I would say he had a keen eye for real estate! Some of those celebrating a birthday today: Eric Clapton- 60, Norah Jones, far from 60. Also artist Francisco Goya was born today in 1746. And Vincent Van Gogh was born in 1853, and incidentally Van Gogh's painting Sunflowers sold on this day in 1987 for $39.85 million. So the challenge for you the reader is to calculate what the cost of the painting is per square inch, or centimeter! Email us with your answer!

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