TODAY IN CRIME: March 30

1866: An attacker clubbed to death 55-year-old Janet Henderson Rogers with an axe while she was visiting her brother Charles Henderson on his farm near Perth, Scotland. Police offered an unheard-of 100-pound reward for information and charged ploughman James Crichton with murder, although a jury returned a verdict of not proven. The verdict drove Charles insane.

1945: Gestapo officers shot 289 anti-fascists in Rombergpark, Dortmund, as part of the mass execution ordered by the SS in the closing days of WWII. The USSR invaded Austria the same day.

1949: A riot broke out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joined NATO. Police used tear gas to disperse protestors.

1965: A car bomb exploded in front of the U.S. embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others. Congress immediately appropriated $1 million to construct a new building.

1978: London police arrested Paul Simonon and Topper Headon of the Clash for shooting pigeons from the roof of a rehearsal hall.

1979: A car bomb killed British MP Airey Neave as he exited the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claimed responsibility. On July 2, Parliament declared the INLA illegal across the entire UK as a result of Neave's assassination.

1981: John W. Hinckley Jr. shot and seriously wounded U.S. President Ronald Reagan outside a Washington, D.C., hotel. He also wounded White House Press Secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent, and a District of Columbia police officer. A D.C. court found Hinckley not guilty by reason of insanity.

1991: William Kennedy Smith, member of the prominent Kennedy family, allegedly raped a woman he met the previous night in a bar. A jury acquitted him after a nationally publicized trial.

1992: A man accidentally backed into Oakland A's outfielder Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini.

1993: A Sarajevo court sentenced to death two Serb militiamen for murder, rape, and robbery in the first war crimes trial of the Bosnian conflict.

2002: In the first of a series of anti-Semitic attacks during one weekend in France, a group of hooded men rammed two cars into a Lyon synagogue and set the building on fire. No worshippers were injured. The Muslim community denounced the attack as an act of terrorism.

2006: Sunni Muslim insurgents released Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll after holding her for 82 days. U.S. Marines arrested four Iraqi men on kidnapping charges in August 2006 and the ringleader in 2008.

2009: Twelve Taliban gunmen armed with automatic weapons and grenades attacked the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirteen people were killed and 100 injured before police recaptured the academy.

2012: Global Payments, a third-party services provider for MasterCard, Visa, American Express, and Discover, announced a massive breach in security that compromised more than ten million credit card numbers.

2013: A dogwalker discovered the body of property developer Kevin Lee in a ditch in Cambridgeshire. He’d been stabbed to death, the first of three men killed by Joanne Christine Dennehy with a pocket knife. Two other stabbing victims survived. Dennehy told friends she wanted to be famous like Bonnie and Clyde. She confessed and was given life without parole, a rare sentence for a woman in the UK.

2017: North Carolina repealed parts of its controversial bathroom law that restricted transgender use. The state had been suffering economically in the previous year with many businesses leaving and organizations moving sporting events and concerts to states with more favorable LGBTQ laws.