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This day in history: 30 April

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Key facts

374 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 30 April.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2021: Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.

Holidays and observances

Armed Forces Day (Georgia)

Camarón Day (French Foreign Legion)

Children's Day (Mexico)

Christian feast day: Adjutor

Christian feast day: Aimo

Christian feast day: Amator, Peter and Louis

Christian feast day: April 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Blessed Miles Gerard

Christian feast day: Donatus of Evorea

Christian feast day: Eutropius of Saintes

Christian feast day: Marie Guyart (Anglican Church of Canada and Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: Maximus of Rome

Events

2021Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.

2014A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others.

2013Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.

2012An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 108 people. At least 150 more are missing and presumed dead.

2009Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

2009Seven 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.

2008Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg 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

2004U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers committing war crimes against Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

2000Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.

1999Neo-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.

1994Formula 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.

1993CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.

1989The Monkseaton shootings occur in Tyne and Wear, England. One is killed and 16 are injured.

1982The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta, India.

1980Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.

1980The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London.

1979Eruption of Mount Marapi: Mount Marapi, a complex volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, erupts. Between 80 and 100 people are killed.

1975Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.

1973Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon fires White House Counsel John Dean; other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, resign.

1963The 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.

1961K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.

1957Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery enters into force.

1956Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

1948In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.

1947In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.

1945World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours.

1945World War II: Soviet soldiers raise the first Soviet flag over the Reichstag. The Victory Banner will be raised the next day.

1945World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9,000 American and British airmen.

1943World 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.

1939NBC 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.

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

1937The 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.

1927The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

1925Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc, is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity.

1905Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.

1900Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.

1897J. 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.

1885Governor 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.

1871The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.

1864American Civil War: Confederate forces led by General E. Kirby Smith attack federal troops retreating across the Saline at Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas.

Born on this day

2003Emily Carey, British actress

2003Jung Yun-seok, South Korean actor

2002Anna Cramling, Spanish-Swedish chess player

2002Teden Mengi, English footballer

2000Dean James, Indonesian footballer

2000Yui Hiwatashi, Japanese singer

1999Jorden van Foreest, Dutch chess grandmaster

1999Krit Amnuaydechkorn, Thai actor and singer

1998Georgina Amorós, Spanish actress

1997Adam Ryczkowski, Polish footballer

1996Luke Friend, English singer

1994Chae Seo-jin, South Korean actress

1994Wang Yafan, Chinese tennis player

1993Dion Dreesens, Dutch swimmer

1993Martin Fuksa, Czech canoeist

1992Goodnight Chicken, Taiwanese YouTuber

1992Marc-André ter Stegen, German footballer

1992Marcel Bauer, German politician

1991Chris Kreider, American ice hockey player

1991Travis Scott, American rapper and producer

1990Jonny Brownlee, English triathlete

1990Kaarel Kiidron, Estonian footballer

1990Mac DeMarco, Canadian singer-songwriter

1990Paula Ribó, Spanish singer-songwriter and actress

1989Jang Wooyoung, South Korean singer and actor

1988Ana de Armas, Cuban actress

1988Andy Allen, Australian chef

1988Liu Xijun, Chinese singer

1988Oh Hye-ri, South Korean taekwondo athlete

1988Sander Baart, Dutch field hockey player

1987Alipate Carlile, Australian footballer

1987Chris Morris, South African cricketer

1987Rohit Sharma, Indian cricketer

1986Dianna Agron, American actress and singer

1986Martten Kaldvee, Estonian biathlete

1985Ashley Alexandra Dupré, American journalist, singer, and prostitute

1985Brandon Bass, American basketball player

1985Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model

1984Lee Roache, English footballer

1984Risto Mätas, Estonian javelin thrower

Died on this day

2024Paul Auster, American writer and film director (born 1947)

2023Jock Zonfrillo, Scottish television presenter and chef (born 1976)

2022Mino Raiola, Italian football agent (born 1967)

2022Naomi Judd, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1946)

2021Anthony Payne, English composer (born 1936)

2020Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor, film director and producer (born 1952)

2020Tony Allen, Nigerian drummer and composer (born 1940)

2019Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (born 1944)

2017Belchior, Brazilian singer and composer (born 1946)

2016Daniel Berrigan, American priest and activist (born 1921)

2016Harry Kroto, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1939)

2015Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1938)

2014Carl E. Moses, American businessman and politician (born 1929)

2014Ian Ross, Australian journalist (born 1940)

2014Julian Lewis, English biologist and academic (born 1946)

2014Khaled Choudhury, Indian painter and set designer (born 1919)

2013Roberto Chabet, Filipino painter and sculptor (born 1937)

2013Shirley Firth, Canadian skier (born 1953)

2013Viviane Forrester, French author and critic (born 1925)

2012Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer (born 1985)

2012Benzion Netanyahu, Russian-Israeli historian and academic (born 1910)

2012Giannis Gravanis, Greek footballer (born 1958)

2012Tomás Borge, Nicaraguan poet and politician, co-founded the Sandinista National Liberation Front (born 1930)

2011Dorjee Khandu, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (born 1955)

2011Ernesto Sabato, Argentinian physicist, author, and painter (born 1911)

2011Evald Okas, Estonian painter (born 1915)

2009Henk Nijdam, Dutch cyclist (born 1935)

2008Juancho Evertsz, Dutch Antillean politician (born 1923)

2007Gordon Scott, American film and television actor (born 1926)

2007Kevin Mitchell, American football player (born 1971)

Quote of the day

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”

Alan Watts

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