April 30

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April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years). There are 245 days remaining.

Events

313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire eastern empire under his rule.
1789 - On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office becoming the first elected President of the United States.
1803 - Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million more than doubling the size of the young nation overnight.
1812 - The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
1900 - Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
1900 - Casey Jones is killed attempting to save the runaway train Cannonball Express.
1939 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the first President of the United States to appear on television
1939 - The 1939 New York World's Fair opens.
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.
1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day.
1947 - In Nevada Boulder Dam is officially renamed Hoover Dam again.
1948 - In Bogota, Colombia the Organization of American States is established.
1966 - Anton LaVey founds the Church of Satan.
1973 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aids HR Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and others have resigned.
1975 - North Vietnamese troops occupy Saigon, ending the Vietnam War.
1980 - Accession of Beatrix of the Netherlands.
1991 - A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh killing an estimated 125,000 people.
1992 - CERN announces that World Wide Web will be free to anyone, with no fees due
1997 - Ellen DeGeneres comes out of the closet on her sitcom Ellen (which originally aired on ABC this day).
1998 - NATO membership expands by approving the admission of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (the nations will be formally admitted following NATO's 50th anniversary summit next April).
1999 - Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the total members to 10.
2001 - Dennis Tito, the first 'space tourist' in space lifts off in a Russian rocket heading for the International Space Station.
2001 - Chandra Levy, a former intern to California Congressman Gary Condit, is last seen in Washington, DC.
2002 - A referendum in Pakistan overwhelmingly approves the military government under Pervez Musharraf for another five years.