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On this day April 30

2014


A bomb blast in Ürümqi kills three people and injures 79 others.

2012


An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.

2009


Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.

2009


Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

2008


Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.

2004


U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

2000


Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.

1997


Ellen DeGeneres came out as gay. Her sitcom, Ellen, became one of first major television shows featuring an openly gay main character.

1994


Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy.

1993


CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.

1992


Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida bury a time capsule to be opened in 2042; 50 years after its burial.

1982


The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta.

1980


The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London.

1975


Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.

1973


Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.

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.

1961


K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.

1957


Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.

1956


Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

1948


In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.

1947


In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam for the second time.

1945


World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9000 American and British airmen.

1945


World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.

1943


World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.

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.

1939


The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opens.

1938


The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).

1937


The Commonwealth of 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.

1927


Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

1927


The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

1925


Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity.

1907


Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.

1905


Albert Einstein writes his thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen ("A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions").

1904


The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.

1900


Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.

1897


J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.[1]

1885


Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.

1871


The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.

1863


A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.

1838


Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.

1812


The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.

1803


Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.

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.

1671


Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.

1636


Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.

1598


Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.

1598


Juan de Oñate makes a formal declaration of his Conquest of New Mexico.

1557


Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.

1513


Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.

1492


Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.

1315


Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.

642


Chindasuinth is proclaimed king by the Visigothic nobility and bishops.

313


Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.

311


The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.

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