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Events on the 30th of April in history

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30 Apr 0311 The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
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30 Apr 0311 Emperor Galerius recognizes Christians legally in the Roman Empire
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30 Apr 0313 Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.
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30 Apr 0642 Chindasuinth is proclaimed king by the Visigothic nobility and bishops.
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30 Apr 1006 Brightest supernova in recorded history is observed
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30 Apr 1064 German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland
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30 Apr 1315 Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon.
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30 Apr 1349 Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated
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30 Apr 1396 Crusaders & earl of Nevers depart from Dijon
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30 Apr 1492 Spain announces it will expels all Jews
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30 Apr 1492 Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
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30 Apr 1492 Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
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30 Apr 1506 Philip of Bourgondy & England sign trade agreement
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30 Apr 1513 Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.
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30 Apr 1527 England & France sign treaty of Westminster
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30 Apr 1557 Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.
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30 Apr 1562 1st French colonists in US: Jean Ribaut and Hugenots at Parris Island, North Carolina
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30 Apr 1563 Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI
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30 Apr 1598 Juan de Oñate makes a formal declaration of his Conquest of New Mexico.
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30 Apr 1598 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
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30 Apr 1616 English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen
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30 Apr 1636 Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
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30 Apr 1650 French rebel Henri de la Tour Turenne signs treaty with Spain
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30 Apr 1661 Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa
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30 Apr 1671 Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
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30 Apr 1695 William Congreve's "Love for Love", premieres in London
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30 Apr 1722 The game of Billiards is mentioned in the New England Courant
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30 Apr 1725 Emperor Charles VI & King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna
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30 Apr 1748 Ceasefire at Aken ends
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30 Apr 1748 French troops occupy Maastricht
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30 Apr 1763 London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower
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30 Apr 1772 John Clais patents 1st scale
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30 Apr 1774 Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
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30 Apr 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.
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30 Apr 1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st President of US
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30 Apr 1790 Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village
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30 Apr 1798 Department of Navy forms
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30 Apr 1798 Department of the Navy is established
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30 Apr 1803 Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
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30 Apr 1803 US doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase ($15 million)
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30 Apr 1804 Hague's Theater opens
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30 Apr 1808 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
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30 Apr 1812 The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
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30 Apr 1812 (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state
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30 Apr 1838 Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
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30 Apr 1852 Anton Rubinsteins opera "Dmitri Donskoi, " premieres in St. Petersburg
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30 Apr 1857 San Jose State University forms
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30 Apr 1859 Paul Morphy returns from 10-month chess tour of Europe, retires
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30 Apr 1860 Navaho Indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby)
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30 Apr 1861 President Abraham Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory
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30 Apr 1862 Swift Run Gap WV skirmishes
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30 Apr 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.
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30 Apr 1864 New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee
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30 Apr 1864 Battle of Jenkins' Ferry AR; General William Read Scurry is killed
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30 Apr 1865 General Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill VA
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30 Apr 1869 Hawaiian YMCA organized
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30 Apr 1871 The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
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30 Apr 1871 Apaches in Arizona surrender to white & Mexican adventurers; 144 die
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30 Apr 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.
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30 Apr 1885 Boston Pops Orchestra forms
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30 Apr 1887 1st game played at Broad and Huntingdon St. Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Phillies beat Giants 19-10
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30 Apr 1888 Hailstones kill about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi India
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30 Apr 1889 George Washington Bridge linking NYC and New Jersey opens
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30 Apr 1889 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
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30 Apr 1894 Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
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30 Apr 1898 Championship wrestling match at the Metropolitan turns into a brawl
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30 Apr 1900 Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughan, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
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30 Apr 1900 Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
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30 Apr 1900 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match
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30 Apr 1900 USA annexes Hawaii
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30 Apr 1902 Debussy's opera "Pell
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30 Apr 1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) 1st home game, (Hilltop Park-168th St. & Broadway, Manhattan), they beat Washingston Senators, 6-2
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30 Apr 1904 The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
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30 Apr 1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut
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30 Apr 1905 1st official soccer game between Belgium-Netherlands (1-4)
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30 Apr 1907 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
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30 Apr 1910 Cleveland Indian Addie Joss wins 2nd no-hitter beating White Sox
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30 Apr 1911 Portugal approves woman suffrage
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30 Apr 1916 Chicago Cubs play 1st game at Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) beat Reds
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30 Apr 1918 Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen
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30 Apr 1919 Philadelphia Phillies beat Brooklyn Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings
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30 Apr 1920 Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
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30 Apr 1921 Pope Benedict XV encyclical "On Dante"
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30 Apr 1921 American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron
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30 Apr 1921 Pope Benedict XV encyclical "On Dante"
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30 Apr 1922 Chicago White Sox Charles Robertson perfect games Detroit Tigers, 2-0
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30 Apr 1925 Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity.
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30 Apr 1927 Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
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30 Apr 1927 The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
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30 Apr 1927 Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State
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30 Apr 1928 Cherkess Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1957)
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30 Apr 1928 Cherkess Autonomous Region is established in RSFSR (until 1957)
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30 Apr 1929 Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austria
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30 Apr 1934 Austrian gets "Austrian facist" constitution
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30 Apr 1934 Austria gets "Austrian facist" constitution
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30 Apr 1935 World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul
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30 Apr 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.
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30 Apr 1937 General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth
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30 Apr 1938 The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
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30 Apr 1938 The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
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30 Apr 1938 Bradman scores 258 Australia vs Worcestershire, 293 minutes, 33 fours 1 five
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30 Apr 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.
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30 Apr 1939 The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opens.
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30 Apr 1939 NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of New York World's Fair
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30 Apr 1939 Tropicana ballet of Havana Cuba, forms
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30 Apr 1940 Brooklyn Dodger Tex Carleton no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 3-0
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30 Apr 1941 Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia
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30 Apr 1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wisconsin
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30 Apr 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.
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30 Apr 1943 Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms
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30 Apr 1943 Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry
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30 Apr 1944 New York Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th time
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30 Apr 1944 New York Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs
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30 Apr 1945 "Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio
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30 Apr 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.
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30 Apr 1945 Concentration camp M
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30 Apr 1945 Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolsheviks
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30 Apr 1945 Red Army occupies Demmin
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30 Apr 1945 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin
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30 Apr 1945 Russian Army frees Ravensbr
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30 Apr 1945 US troops attack the Elbe
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30 Apr 1946 Cleveland Indian Bob Feller's 2nd no-hitter beats New York Yankees, 1-0
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30 Apr 1947 In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed the Hoover Dam a second time.
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30 Apr 1947 Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
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30 Apr 1948 "Inside USA" opens at Century Theater NYC for 339 performances
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30 Apr 1948 In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
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30 Apr 1948 Organization of American States charter signed at Bogot
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30 Apr 1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
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30 Apr 1950 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA 144-hole Golf Weathervane
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30 Apr 1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Stockton Golf Open
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30 Apr 1952 Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television
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30 Apr 1953 In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.
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30 Apr 1953 Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League
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30 Apr 1954 Darius Milhauds 4th Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Haifa
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30 Apr 1955 Element 101, Mendelevium, announced
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30 Apr 1955 Perez Prado's "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White" goes #1 for 10 weeks
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30 Apr 1955 Imperial Bank of India nationalized
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30 Apr 1955 West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & more wages
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30 Apr 1956 Former Vice President and Democratic 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."
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30 Apr 1957 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
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30 Apr 1958 Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits
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30 Apr 1961 K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
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30 Apr 1961 1st shuttle flights between Washington DC, Boston MA & New York NY begin (Eastern)
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30 Apr 1961 Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk USSR
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30 Apr 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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30 Apr 1961 Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize
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30 Apr 1961 San Francisco Giant Willie Mays hits 4 homeruns in a game
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30 Apr 1962 Willie Mays hits 4 HRs
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30 Apr 1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to an altitude of 75,190 meters
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30 Apr 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.
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30 Apr 1966 The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco.
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30 Apr 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.
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30 Apr 1967 Baltimore Orioles' Stu Miller & Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Detroit Tigers
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30 Apr 1967 Highest tower in the world finished, 537 meters (USSR)
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30 Apr 1967 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
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30 Apr 1967 New York Mets pitcher Tom Seaver wins his 1st game
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30 Apr 1968 3 Baltimore Oriole pitchers walk 14 New York Yankees in a 9 inning game
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30 Apr 1969 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 3rd no-hitter beats Houston Astros, 10-0
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30 Apr 1969 WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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30 Apr 1970 US troops invade Cambodia
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30 Apr 1970 Chicago Cubs Billy Williams is 1st National Leaguer to play in 1,000 consecutive games
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30 Apr 1971 25th NBA Championship Milwaukee Bucks beat Baltimore Bullets in 4 games
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30 Apr 1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Open
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30 Apr 1973 Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love"
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30 Apr 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.
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30 Apr 1973 Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al
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30 Apr 1973 Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love"
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30 Apr 1973 Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments
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30 Apr 1974 President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
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30 Apr 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.
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30 Apr 1975 Last US helicopter leaves US embassy groundsin Vietnam, Saigon surrenders
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30 Apr 1976 Wings release "Silly Love Songs"
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30 Apr 1976 Wings release "Silly Love Songs"
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30 Apr 1976 Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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30 Apr 1976 Royal Canadian Mint opens a branch in Winnipeg Manitoba
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30 Apr 1977 "Party with Comden & Green" closes at Morosco NYC after 92 performances
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30 Apr 1977 Billy Graham beats Bruno Sammartino in Baltimore MD, to become WWF champion
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30 Apr 1977 Ron Cey sets record of 29 RBIs in April
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30 Apr 1978 "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace NYC after 101 performances
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30 Apr 1978 Janet Coles wins LPGA Natural Light Lady Tara Golf Classic
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30 Apr 1979 Mary Therese Friel, (New York), crowned 28th Miss USA
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30 Apr 1980 "Barnum" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 854 performances
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30 Apr 1980 Beatrix, Wilhelmina Armgard, crowned Queen of the Netherlands
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30 Apr 1980 The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London.
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30 Apr 1980 Beatrix becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
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30 Apr 1980 Queen Beatrix of Netherlands, Wilhelmina Armgard, ascends to the throne
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30 Apr 1980 Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London
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30 Apr 1980 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, abdicates
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30 Apr 1980 Ronald Harwood's "Dresser", premieres in London
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30 Apr 1981 "Can-Can" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances
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30 Apr 1981 16th Academy of Country Music Awards Barbara Mandrell & George Jones win
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30 Apr 1982 The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta.
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30 Apr 1982 Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as President of El Salvador
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30 Apr 1982 Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season
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30 Apr 1982 Iranian offensive in Khusistan
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30 Apr 1983 Bruins 3-Islanders 7-Wales Conference Championship-Islanders hold 2-1 lead
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30 Apr 1984 Strong winds cause a 30 minute delay in Toronto Blue Jays game
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30 Apr 1984 1700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are Sweden
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30 Apr 1985 Dale Murphy drives in record tying 28th & 29th runs of April
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30 Apr 1985 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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30 Apr 1985 Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa
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30 Apr 1986 Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles
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30 Apr 1986 Seattle Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games
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30 Apr 1987 New York Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game
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30 Apr 1987 Lou Lamoriello is named New Jersey Devils president
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30 Apr 1988 New York Yank Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets AL and ties ML Rec
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30 Apr 1988 New Jersey Devils beat Capitals 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final
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30 Apr 1988 New York Knights 1st arena football game; beat Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in Los Angeles)
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30 Apr 1988 New York Yankee Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets American League & ties major league record
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30 Apr 1988 World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Australia
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30 Apr 1988 Baltimore Orioles win record 14th straight from beginning of season
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30 Apr 1988 Largest banana split ever, at 4.55 miles long, is made in Selinsgrove PA
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30 Apr 1989 Critics Siskel & Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show
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30 Apr 1989 US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
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30 Apr 1989 Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
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30 Apr 1989 Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo of Madagascar
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30 Apr 1990 As New York Mets pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Atlanta Braves score
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30 Apr 1990 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space
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30 Apr 1990 Seattle Mariner's Brian Holman's perfect game broken up with 2 outs in 9th
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30 Apr 1990 US hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians
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30 Apr 1991 In Bangladesh a cyclone kills over 131,000 & leaves 9 million homeless
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30 Apr 1992 208th & final episode of "The Cosby Show" on NBC-TV
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30 Apr 1993 Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany
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30 Apr 1993 CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
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30 Apr 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.
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30 Apr 1994 Soccer great Pele (53) weds psychologist Assiria Seixas Lemos (36)
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30 Apr 1995 "Blood Brothers" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 839 performances
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30 Apr 1995 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 24 performances
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30 Apr 1995 "Rose Tattoo" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 80 performances
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30 Apr 1995 U.S. President Bill Clinton becomes the first President to visit Northern Ireland.
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30 Apr 1995 After 120 years the last 15 A & S department stores close
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30 Apr 1995 Val Skinner wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship
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30 Apr 1996 "Buried Child, " opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 77 performances
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30 Apr 1996 Dutch / Itallian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral
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30 Apr 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Grand Rapids MI on WKLQ 94.5 FM
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30 Apr 1997 "London Assurance, " opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 72 performances
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30 Apr 1997 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay
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30 Apr 1997 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay
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30 Apr 1997 Atlanta Braves win record 19 games in April
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30 Apr 1997 Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes
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30 Apr 1997 President Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College
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30 Apr 1997 Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt
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30 Apr 1997 Tino Martinez hits record 34 RBIs in April
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30 Apr 2004 U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
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30 Apr 2008 Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia, are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, one of his sisters.
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30 Apr 2009 Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting: Twelve people were killed (students and staff members) by an armed attacker.
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30 Apr 2009 Seven people are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.
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30 Apr 2009 Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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30 Apr 2012 An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
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30 Apr 2013 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates and Willem-Alexander becomes King of the Netherlands.
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30 Apr 2014 A bomb blast in Ürümqi kills three people and injures 79 others.
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