Wikipedia: April 30

April 30
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April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years). There are 245 days remaining.

Events

313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire eastern empire under his rule.
1789 - On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office becoming the first elected President of the United States.
1803 - Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million more than doubling the size of the young nation overnight.
1812 - The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
1900 - Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
1900 - Casey Jones is killed attempting to save the runaway train Cannonball Express.
1939 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the first President of the United States to appear on television
1939 - The 1939 New York World's Fair opens.
1943 - World War II: Operation Mincemeat - The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day.
1947 - In Nevada Boulder Dam is officially renamed Hoover Dam again.
1948 - In Bogota, Colombia the Organization of American States is established.
1966 - Anton LaVey founds the Church of Satan.
1973 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aids HR Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and others have resigned.
1975 - North Vietnamese troops occupy Saigon, ending the Vietnam War.
1980 - Accession of Beatrix of the Netherlands.
1991 - A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh killing an estimated 125,000 people.
1992 - CERN announces that World Wide Web will be free to anyone, with no fees due
1993 - During a changeover at a tennis tournament in Hamburg, Germany, Monica Seles is stabbed in the back by a deranged fan of rival Steffi Graf. Seles would not play competitively for more than two years after the incident.
1997 - Ellen DeGeneres comes out of the closet on her sitcom Ellen (which originally aired on ABC this day).
1998 - NATO membership expands by approving the admission of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (the nations will be formally admitted following NATO's 50th anniversary summit next April).
1999 - Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the total members to 10.
2001 - Dennis Tito, the first 'space tourist' in space lifts off in a Russian rocket heading for the International Space Station.
2001 - Chandra Levy, a former intern to California Congressman Gary Condit, is last seen in Washington, DC.
2002 - A referendum in Pakistan overwhelmingly approves the military government under Pervez Musharraf for another five years.

Births

1602 - William Lilly, astrologer († 1681)
1662 - Queen Mary II of England († 1694)
1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, astronomer and physicist († 1855)
1780 - Charles Nodier, French writer († 1844)
1870 - Franz Lehár, composer († 1948)
1877 - Alice B. Toklas, muse († 1967)
1883 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist († 1923)
1893 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister († 1946)
1898 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr, reporter, columnist, author, lecturer
1908 - Eve Arden, actress († 1990)
1909 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
1911 - Luise Rinser, narrator († 2002)
1926 - Cloris Leachman, actress
1929 - Klausjürgen Wussow, actor
1933 - Willie Nelson, country musician, composer
1938 - Larry Niven, science fiction author
1943 - Bobby Vee, singer
1944 - Jill Clayburgh, actress
1945 - Annie Dillard, poet, essayist, novelist
1946 - King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden
1946 - Don Schollander, Olympic gold medalist in swimming
1946 - Ulla Hahn, lyricist
1961 - Isiah Thomas, basketball player, coach, owner
1964 - Barrington Levy, reggae and dancehall musician
1982 - Kirsten Dunst, actress
1988 - Keith Parsons, coolest guy ever

Deaths

65 - Lucan, Roman poet
1865 - Robert Fitzroy, English admiral and meteorologist
1875 - Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer and cartographer, dies at age 109
1883 - Edouard Manet, impressionist painter
1936 - Alfred Edward Housman, poet
1943 - Otto Jespersen, Danish philologist
1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun (suicide)
1956 - Alben W. Barkley, former Vice President of the United States
1970 - Inger Stevens, actress
1974 - Agnes Moorehead, actress
1982 - Lester Bangs, music journalist, author, musician
1983 - George Balanchine, dancer, choreographer
1983 - Muddy Waters, blues musician

Holidays and observances

Scandinavia - The arrival of spring, Walpurgis Night
Sweden - Birthday of King Carl XVI Gustav, an official flag day
The Netherlands - Queens day
Roman Empire - third day of the Floralia in honor of Flora

See Also:

April 29 - May 1 - March 29 - May 29 -- listing of all days

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