April
30
Events
311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman
Empire ends.
313 – Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus
II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.
1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows
at Montfaucon.
1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne,
is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.
1557 – Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at
the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.
1671 – Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family,
is executed.
1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New
York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become
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.
1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state
under the name Louisiana.
1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American
Federation.
1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought
a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last
man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
1871 – The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
1894 – Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the
unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with
Sanford B. Dole as governor.
1900 – Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi,
while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens
in St. Louis, Missouri.
1907 – Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
1920 – Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright
treaty.
1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read
& Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity.
1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson,
West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United
States.
1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first
celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's
Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1937 – The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women
on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over
90% would vote in the affirmative.
1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in
movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs
Bunny).
1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between
Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
1939 – The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opens.
1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service
in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's
N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.
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 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers
raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second
time.
1948 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States
is established.
1953 – In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.
1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies
during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming
"I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than
sit in the seats of the mighty."
1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with
nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest
the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian
bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination
in the United Kingdom.
1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House
in San Francisco, California.
1967 – The Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting
down the CNJ's Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring
commuters to Newark Penn Station.
1973 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces
that top White House aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and
others have resigned.
1975 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon.
The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender
of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh.
1980 – Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
1982 – Bijon Setu massacre
1988 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opens World
Expo '88 in Brisbane, Australia.
1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
1993 – Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United
Kingdom.
1993 – Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed
fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in
Hamburg, Germany
1995 – U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first President
to visit Northern Ireland.
1999 – Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) bringing the number of members to 10.
2004 – U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers
abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib
prison.
2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia
are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei
Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.
2009 – Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2009 – Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen's Day
parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
2009 – Terror act in Azerbaijan state oil academy: 13 students
died.
Holidays
and observances
Armed Forces
Day (Georgia)
Birthday of the King Carl XVI Gustav, one of the official flag
days of Sweden.
Last day of classes at universities in India
Camarón Day (French Foreign Legion)
Children's Day (Mexico)
Christian Feast Day:
Adjutor
Aimo
Amator, Peter and Louis
Blessed Miles Gerard
Eutropius of Saintes
Marie Guyart (Anglican Church of Canada)
Maximus of Rome
Pomponius of Naples
Quirinus of Neuss
Suitbert the Younger
Saint Pope Pius V
April 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Consumer Protection Day (Thailand)
Earliest day on which Ascension Day can fall, while June 3 is
the latest; celebrated 40 days after Easter (Christianity),
and its related observances
International Jazz Day, organized by UNESCO, first observed
in 2012, "is intended to raise awareness in the international
community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and
a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation
among people."
May Eve, the eve of the first day of summer (see May 1):
Beltane Fire Festival (Calton Hill, Edinburgh)
Carodejnice (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
Eve of Beltane (Celtic Druidic holiday)
Walpurgis Night (Central and Northern Europe)
National Persian Gulf Day (Iran)
Queen's Day (Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten)
Reunification Day (Vietnam)
Teacher's Day (Paraguay)
International Jazz Day
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