30 April History


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  • 313    -    Licinius unifies the whole of the eastern Roman Empire under his own rule.
  • 1250    -    King Louis IX of France is ransomed.
  • 1527    -    Henry VIII of England and King Francis of France sign treaty of Westminster.
  • 1563    -    All Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI.
  • 1725    -    Spain withdraws from the Quadruple Alliance.
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  • 1789    -    George Washington is inaugurated as the first U.S. president.
  • 1803    -    The United States doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase, which was sold by France for $15 million.
  • 1812    -    Louisiana is admitted into the Union as a state.
  • 1849    -    Giuseppe Garabaldi, the Italian patriot and guerrilla leader, repulses a French attack on Rome.
  • 1864    -    Work begins on the Dams along the Red River, which will allow Union General Nathaniel Banks' troops to sail over the rapids above Alexandria, Louisiana.
  • 1930    -    The Soviet Union proposes a military alliance with France and Great Britain.
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  • 1931    -    The George Washington Bridge, linking New York City and New Jersey, opens.
  • 1943    -    The British submarine HMS Seraph drops 'the man who never was,' a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain.
  • 1945    -    Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker. Karl Donitz becomes his successor.
  • 1968    -    U.S. Marines attack a division of North Vietnamese troops in the village of Dai Do.
  • 1970    -    U.S. troops invade Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese Army base areas.
  • 1972    -    The North Vietnamese launch an invasion of the South.
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  • 1973    -    Nixon announces the resignation of H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and other top aides.
  • 1975    -    North Vietnamese troops enter the Independence Palace of South Vietnam in Saigon ending the Vietnam War.
  • 1980    -    Terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London.

  • 30 April Birthdays

  • 1777    -    Karl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician.
  • 1858    -    Mary Scott Lord Dimmick, First Lady to President Benjamin Harrison .
  • 1870    -    Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer (The Merry Widow, The Land of Smiles).
  • 1909    -    Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands.
  • 1912    -    Eve Arden (Eunice Quedens), actress.
  • 1933    -    Willie Nelson, country singer.
  • 1945    -    Annie Dillard, writer (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek).
  • 1954    -    Jane Campion, New Zealand film director (The Piano, A Portrait of a Lady).