April 30

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April 30 is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 245 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule.
• 711 - Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
• 1006 - Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, appears in the constellation Lupus.
• 1483 - Orbital calculations suggest that on this day Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503.
• 1492 - Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
• 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.
• 1794 - The Battle of Boulou is fought, in which French forces defeated the Spanish under General Union.
• 1803 - Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling – overnight – 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
• 1856 - Battle of Rivas, Nicaragua, against North American mercenaries.
• 1863 - Mexican forces attacked the French Foreign Legion in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
• 1871 - 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.
• 1920 - Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1925 - Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for USD $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.
• 1938 - The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit.
• 1938 - The first televised FA Cup Final took place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End
• 1939 - The 1939 New York World's Fair opens.
• 1939 - RCA owned NBC begins regularly scheduled television service from its New York station with the opening ceremonies of the 1939 New York World's Fair broadcast.
• 1939 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to appear on television during the World Fair's opening ceremonies broadcast.
• 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, the Boulder Dam is officially renamed Hoover Dam again.
• 1948 - In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
• 1966 - The Church of Satan is founded.
• 1973 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aids H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and others have resigned.
• 1975 - Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gains 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.
• 1988 - French-Canadian singer Céline Dion wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Ireland in front of 600 million TV-viewers, representing Switzerland with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi"
• 1991 - A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh killing an estimated 138,000 people.
• 1993 - The World Wide Web was born at CERN.
• 1993 - During a tennis match between #1 female tennis player Monica Seleš and Magdalena Maleeva, Günter Parche plunged a steak knife between Seleš's shoulderblades. Seleš did not return to competitive tennis for over two years.
• 1993 - Virgin Radio (then Virgin 1215) launches in the UK at 12:15pm.
• 1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. President to visit Northern Ireland.
• 1999 - Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the total members to 10.
• 2001 - The Mitchell Report on the Arab-Israeli conflict is published.
• 2002 - A referendum in Pakistan overwhelmingly approves the Presidency of Pervez Musharraf for another five years.
• 2006 - Trapped miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell at Beaconsfield, Tasmania are found alive after being unaccounted for for five days.

Births

• 1623 - François de Laval, first bishop of New France (d. 1708)
• 1651 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer, Catholic saint (d. 1719)
• 1662 - Queen Mary II of England (d. 1694)
• 1664 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709)
• 1710 - Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (d. 1795)
• 1721 - Roger Sherman, American statesman (d. 1793)
• 1723 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806)
• 1770 - David Thompson, Canadian explorer (d. 1857)
• 1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician (d. 1855)
• 1803 - Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (d. 1879)
• 1829 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (d. 1884)
• 1857 - Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1940)
• 1864 - Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet (d. 1913)
• 1865 - Max Nettlau, German anarchist (d. 1944)
• 1869 - Hans Poelzig, German architect (d. 1936)
• 1870 - Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (d. 1948)
• 1874 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian clergyman (d. 1949)
• 1876 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (d. 1937)
• 1877 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion of Gertrude Stein (d. 1967)
• 1883 - Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (d. 1923)
• 1893 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (d. 1946)
• 1895 - Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (d. 1960)
• 1896 - Hans List, Austrian inventor (d. 1996)
• 1897 - Humberto Mauro, Brazillina director and screenwriter (d. 1983)
• 1901 - Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
• 1902 - Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
• 1908 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (d. 1970)
• 1909 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
• 1909 - F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (d. 1992)
• 1916 - Claude Shannon, American engineer and mathematician (d. 2001)
• 1916 - Robert Shaw, American conductor (d. 1999)
• 1921 - George Crowe, American baseball player
• 1923 - Percy Heath, American jazz musician (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 2005)
• 1923 - Al Lewis, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1924 - Kenneth Kaunda, former Zambian president (1964-1991)
• 1925 - Corinne Calvet, French actress (d. 2001)
• 1925 - Johnny Horton, American musician (d. 1960)
• 1926 - Cloris Leachman, American actress
• 1930 - Lawton Chiles, American politician (d. 1998)
• 1933 - Willie Nelson, American musician
• 1938 - Larry Niven, American author
• 1940 - Burt Young, American actor
• 1941 - Johnny Farina, American musician (Santo and Johnny)
• 1943 - Frederick Chiluba, former Zambian president (1991-2001)
• 1943 - Bobby Vee, American singer
• 1944 - Jill Clayburgh, American actress
• 1945 - Annie Dillard, American writer
• 1945 - Michael Smith, American astronaut (d. 1986)
• 1946 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
• 1946 - Don Schollander, American swimmer
• 1947 - Leslie Grantham, English actor
• 1947 - Finn Kalvik, Norwegian singer
• 1947 - Mats Odell, Swedish politician
• 1948 - Perry King, American actor
• 1949 - Phil Garner, baseball manager
• 1949 - Antonio Guterres, Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1952 - Jacques Audiard, French film director
• 1954 - Jane Campion, New Zealand film director
• 1955 - Nicolas Hulot, French journalist
• 1956 - Jorge Chaminé, Portuguese baritone
• 1956 - Lars von Trier, Danish film director
• 1958 - Charles Berling, French actor, director and screenwriter
• 1959 - Paul Gross, Canadian actor, director, and writer
• 1959 - Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
• 1959 - W. Thomas Smith Jr., American author and columnist
• 1960 - Kerry Healey, American politician
• 1961 - Isiah Thomas, American basketball player
• 1963 - Michael Waltrip, American race car driver
• 1964 - Ian Healy, Australian cricketer
• 1964 - Barrington Levy, Jamaican musician
• 1965 - Adrian Pasdar, American actor
• 1966 - Jeff Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 - Paulo Jr., Brazilian musician (Sepultura)
• 1969 - Warren Defever, Amercian musician, composer

• 1969 - Clark Vogeler, American musician (The Toadies)
• 1971 - John Boyne, Irish novelist
• 1971 - Darren Emerson, English DJ (Underworld)
• 1974 - Mikey Chan, Australian musician
• 1975 - Elliott Sadler, American race car driver
• 1975 - Mike Chat, American actor
• 1976 - Amanda Palmer, American musician (The Dresden Dolls)
• 1977 - Jeannie Haddaway, American politician
• 1979 - Gerardo Torrado, Mexican footballer
• 1981 - John O'Shea, Irish footballer
• 1982 - Lloyd Banks, American rapper
• 1982 - Kirsten Dunst, American actress
• 1982 - Cleo Higgins, British singer and actress
• 1982 - Andrew Seeley, Canadian actor and singer
• 1983 - Jae Millz, Dominican African American Rapper
• 1983 - Troy Williamson, American football player
• 1984 - Shawn Daivari, Persian-American professional wrestler and manager
• 1985 - Miss Alex White, American musician
• 1987 - Nikki Webster, Australian entertainer
• 1991 - Andrew Liddell, The Greatest Person That Ever Lived
• 2002 - Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal

Deaths

• 65 - Lucan, Roman poet (b. 39)
• 1063 - Emperor Renzong of China (b. 1010)
• 1341 - John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1285)
• 1439 - Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English military leader (b. 1382)
• 1524 - Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473)
• 1544 - Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England
• 1555 - Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501)
• 1632 - Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly, Bavarian general (b. 1559)
• 1642 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (b. 1578)
• 1660 - Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (b. 1576)
• 1655 - Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (b. 1617)
• 1696 - Robert Plot, British naturalist (b. 1640)
• 1712 - Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Protestant theologian (b. 1633)
• 1736 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer (b. 1668)
• 1758 - François d'Agincourt, French composer (b. 1684)
• 1792 - John Montagu, supposed inventor of the sandwich (b. 1718)
• 1795 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (b. 1716)
• 1847 - Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (b. 1771)
• 1865 - Robert Fitzroy, English admiral and meteorologist (b. 1805)
• 1875 - Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
• 1883 - Édouard Manet, French painter (b. 1832)
• 1900 - Casey Jones, American train engineer (b. 1863)
• 1903 - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b.1831)
• 1936 - Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (b. 1859)
• 1943 - Otto Jespersen, Danish philologist (b. 1860)
• 1943 - Beatrice Webb, British economist (b. 1858)
• 1945 - Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's new wife (suicide) (b. 1912)
• 1945 - Adolf Hitler, Austrian Nazi dictator of Germany (suicide) (b. 1889)
• 1956 - Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (b. 1877)
• 1970 - Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (b. 1934)
• 1973 – Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator (b. 1911)
• 1974 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1980 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1898)
• 1982 - Lester Bangs, American music journalist, author, and musician (b. 1949)
• 1983 - George Balanchine, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
• 1983 - Muddy Waters, American musician (b. 1915)
• 1985 - George Pravda, Czechoslovakian actor (b. 1918)
• 1989 - Yi, Bang-ja, Crown Princess of Korea (b. 1901)
• 1989 - Sergio Leone, Italian filmmaker (b. 1929)
• 1993 - Tommy Caton, English footballer (b. 1962)
• 1994 - Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1960)
• 1994 - Richard Scarry, American author (b. 1919)
• 1995 - Maung Maung Kha, Prime minister of Burma (b. 1920)
• 1996 - David Opatoshu, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1998 - Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet (b. 1926)
• 2002 - Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf. (b. 1928)
• 2003 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1956)
• 2003 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (b. 1923)
• 2003 - Mark Berger, University of Kentucky professor (b. 1955)
• 2005 - Ron Todd, TGWU General Secretary (1985 - 1992) (b. 1927)
• 2007 - Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (b. 1983)
• 2007 - Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b. 1971)
• 2007 - Tom Poston, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2007 - Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances

• Walpurgis Night - Celebrated in Germany, central, and western Europe
• Scandinavia - The arrival of spring.
• Sweden - Birthday of King Carl XVI Gustav, an official flag day.
• The Netherlands - Queen's Day, the largest one-day holiday in the Netherlands.
• Roman Empire - third day of the Floralia in honor of Flora.
• Bealtaine Eve (From either Irish Bealtaine or Scottish Gaelic). Originally a Celtic Druid holiday.
• Vietnam - Liberation Day.
• Mexico - Children's Day.
• Czech Republic - Carodejnice - witches' night

Liturgical Feast days

in the Roman Catholic Church:

• Saint Ciarán of Clonsost
• Saint Eutropius
• Saint Maximus, 3rd century martyr
• Saints Marianus and James, martyrs in Numidia in 259
• Saint Suitbert the Younger (d. 807)
• Saint Joseph Benedict Cottolengo
• Saint Pope Pius V
• Blessed Hildegard
• Blessed Radolf of Affligem
• Blessed Rosemonde

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada
• National Council on Child Abuse & Family Violence
• The Center for Effective Discipline

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