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  • 311 Roman Emperor Galerius issues the Edict of Toleration, ending the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
  • 711 Islamic conquest of Iberia: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus)
  • 1562 Jean Ribault and colonists arrive in Florida, the first French colonists in North America
  • Allyn Cox's famous mural in the U.S. Capital Building of George Washington being sworn in as the nation's first president on the balcony of Federal Hall in NYC

    George Washington's Inauguration

    1789 George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America at Federal Hall in NYC
  • 1859 Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" is first published in the literary periodical "All the Year Round" in weekly installments until November 26
  • 2009 Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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  • 1952 Mr. Potato Head is the first toy advertised on television
  • 1902 Claude Debussy's only completed opera "Pelléas et Mélisande" premieres at the Salle Favart in Paris, performed by the Opéra-Comique and conducted by André Messager
  • 2012 Manchester City defeats Manchester United 1-0 in what is claimed to be the biggest match in English Premier League history

Germany ratifies a bill introducing Daylight Saving Time, the first country in the world to do so

April 30, 1916

  • Mary II

    1662 - 1694

  • David Thompson

    1770 - 1857

  • Carl Friedrich Gauss

    1777 - 1855

  • Queen Juliana

    1909 - 2004

  • Claude Shannon

    1916 - 2001

  • António Guterres

    76 Years Old
More Birthdays on April 30

  • Jane Campion

    71 Years Old

  • Paul Gross

    66 Years Old

  • Johnny Galecki

    50 Years Old

  • Kirsten Dunst

    43 Years Old

  • Gal Gadot

    40 Years Old

  • Franz Lehár

    1870 - 1948

  • Sheldon Harnick

    1924 - 2023

  • Isiah Thomas

    64 Years Old

Hailstones allegedly as big as oranges kill 246 people and some 1,600 sheep and cattle in Moradabad, India

April 30, 1888

  • 1290 Joan of Acre (18), daughter of Edward I marries (1) Gilbert de Clare, Duke of Hertford at Westminster Abbey.
  • 1923 Golfer champion Walter Hagen (30) weds Edna Straus at the Hotel Biltmore in New York
  • 1932 Australian Test cricket batsman Don Bradman (23) weds Jessie Martha Menzies at St Paul's Anglican Church in Burwood, Sydney
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  • Sigismund III Vasa

    1566 - 1632

  • Edouard Manet

    1832 - 1883

  • Bessie Coleman

    1892 - 1926

  • Adolf Hitler

    1889 - 1945

  • Agnes Moorehead

    1900 - 1974

  • Muddy Waters

    1913 - 1983
More April 30 Deaths
  • Hitler and Eva Braun dining together in the early 1940s

    What Happened to the Body of Adolf Hitler?

    There is no doubt that Adolf Hitler shot himself on this day and that his body was burned by loyal staff. But what happened to his remains is still a mystery. April 30, 1945
  • South Vietnamese civilians scramble to board a CIA helicopter during the evacuation of the US embassy in Saigon

    The Fall of Saigon

    South Vietnamese civilians scramble to board a CIA helicopter during the evacuation of the US embassy in Saigon April 30, 1975
  • The Penny Black stamp featured Queen Victoria

    Weekly Quiz for April 27 - May 3

    Who led the mutiny on HMS Bounty in 1789? What is the name of the world's 1st adhesive stamp? When did Peter Mark Roget 1st publish his Roget's Thesaurus?
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  • Oscar Wilde's trial as recorded in The Illustrated Police News, May 4, 1895

    Oscar Wilde Presses Self-Destruct Button

    April 26, 1895
  • Sheila Scott in the cockpit of her Piper PA-24-260B Comanche G-ATOY in 1966

    Record-Breaking Sheila, the High-Flying Aviator

    April 27, 1922
  • One of several commemorative plaques to the victims in today’s Eyam

    Great Sacrifice of a Plague-Ridden Village

    April 28, 1639
  • William Randolph Hearst at his prime in 1905

    WR Hearst – The Master of Fake News

    April 29, 1863
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