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What Happened on April 30th This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.[5]
2014	A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others.
2013	Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
2012	An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
2009	Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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.
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 committing war crimes against 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.
1999	Neo-Nazi David Copeland carries out the last of his three nail bombings in London at the Admiral Duncan gay pub, killing three people and injuring 79 others.
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.
1982	The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta, India.
1980	Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.
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.
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.
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.
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	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.
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	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.
1905	Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
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.
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 President of the United States.
1636	Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
1598	Juan de Oñate begins the conquest of Santa Fe de Nuevo México.
1598	Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
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. He is named admiral of the ocean sea, viceroy and governor of any territory he discovers.
1315	Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.
311	The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.

Famous People Born on April 30

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Year	Name
1949	Karl Meiler, German tennis player (d. 2014)
1981	Kunal Nayyar, British-Indian actor
1988	Liu Xijun, Chinese singer
1969	Paulo Jr., Brazilian bass player
1994	Chae Seo-jin, South Korean actress
1943	Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (d. 2011)
1857	Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist (d. 1940)
1884	Olof Sandborg, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
1947	Mats Odell, Swedish economist and politician, Swedish Minister for Financial Markets
1965	Adrian Pasdar, American actor

Famous People Deaths On April 30

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on April 30. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1875	Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
2021	Anthony Payne, English composer (b. 1936)
1891	Joseph Leidy, American paleontologist and author (b. 1823)
1865	Robert FitzRoy, English admiral, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (b. 1805)
1736	Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and author (b. 1668)
1945	Eva Braun, German photographer and office and lab assistant, wife of Adolf Hitler (b. 1912)
2008	Juancho Evertsz, Dutch Antillean politician (b. 1923)
2020	Tony Allen, Nigerian drummer and composer (b. 1940)
1986	Robert Stevenson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
2013	Roberto Chabet, Filipino painter and sculptor (b. 1937)