Today in History
30 April
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| 311 Galerius Valerius Maximianus issued an edict under which Christians were legally recognized in the Roman Empire. | ||
| 1064 German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland | ||
| 1309 Kazimierz III de Great, King of Poland (1333-70) was born | ||
| 1349 Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated | ||
| 1396 Crusaders & earl of Nevers depart from Dijon | ||
| 1492 Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet | ||
| 1492 Spain announces it will expels all Jews | ||
| 1506 Philip of Bourgondy & England sign trade agreement | ||
| 1527 England & France sign treaty of Westminster | ||
| 1563 Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI | ||
| 1602 William Lilly, England, astrologer/author/almanac compiler was born | ||
| 1616 English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen | ||
| 1650 French rebel Henri de la Tour Turenne signs treaty with Spain | ||
| 1651 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theorist/saint was born | ||
| 1661 Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa | ||
| 1725 Emperor Charles VI & King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna | ||
| 1748 Ceasefire at Aken ends | ||
| 1748 French troops occupy Maastricht | ||
| 1763 London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower | ||
| 1770 David Thompson, English/Canadian explorer (Columbia River) was born | ||
| 1774 Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee | ||
| 1777 Johann Karl Freidrich Gauss, regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, was born in Germany. | ||
| 1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US | ||
| 1789 George Washington was inaugurated as America's first president. | ||
| 1790 Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village | ||
| 1803 France agreed to sell Louisiana to America; on the same date in 1812, it joined the United States as the 18th state. | ||
| 1804 Shrapnel, named after the British soldier Henry Shrapnel, was used for the first time in warfare by the British against the Dutch in Suriname. | ||
| 1808 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri | ||
| 1812 Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel van Bathe was born | ||
| 1838 Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation | ||
| 1860 Navaho indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby) | ||
| 1874 Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest/writer | ||
| 1883 Edouard Manet, French painter, died. Originally destined for a legal career, he studied art from 1850 and was heavily influenced by Claude Monet. | ||
| 1888 Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi | ||
| 1900 USA annexes Hawaii | ||
| 1900 American railroad engineer Casey Jones died saving passengers as the Cannonball Express was about to crash. | ||
| 1909 Juliana, queen of the Netherlands, was born; she was queen from 1948 until 1980, when she abdicated in favor of her eldest daughter, Beatrix. | ||
| 1911 Portugal approves woman suffrage | ||
| 1918 Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen | ||
| 1929 Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austria | ||
| 1934 Under a new constitution in Austria, a dictatorship was established. | ||
| 1941 Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia | ||
| 1943 Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms | ||
| 1945 Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolsheviks | ||
| 1945 Red Army occupies Demmin | ||
| 1945 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin | ||
| 1945 Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp | ||
| 1945 US troops attack the Elbe | ||
| 1945 Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin; Russian troops penetrated central Berlin, capturing the Reichstag and other government buildings; Allied troops captured Munich and the French crossed the border into Austria. | ||
| 1946 King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden was born. King since 1973, he had much of his constitutional powers taken away by the Social Democrats who pledged to eventually end the monarchy. | ||
| 1955 Imperial Bank of India nationalized | ||
| 1961 Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize | ||
| 1970 US troops invade Cambodia | ||
| 1973 President Richard Nixon accepted responsibility for the bugging that took place in 1972 at the Watergate apartment complex; on the same date in 1974, he handed over partial transcripts of tape recordings to the impeachment inquiry. | ||
| 1975 Last US helicopter leaves US embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders | ||
| 1975 In South Vietnam, President Minh announced an unconditional surrender to the Vietcong. | ||
| 1980 Beatrix, Wilhelmina Armgard, crowned queen of Netherlands | ||
| 1980 Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, abdicates | ||
| 1980 In London, armed gunmen seized the Iranian embassy demanding the release of political prisoners in Iran; the siege lasted six days. | ||
| 1982 Iranian offensive in Khusistan | ||
| 1982 Alvaro Magana was chosen to succeed Jose Napoleon Duarte as president of El Salvador. | ||
| 1984 1700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are Sweden | ||
| 1985 Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa | ||
| 1988 World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Australia | ||
| 1989 500,000 people attended a papal mass in Madagascar where Pope John Paul II beatified Victoire Rasoamanarivo, a 19th century Madagascar woman. | ||
| 1990 American hostage Frank Reed was freed in Lebanon after nearly four years in the hands of pro-Iranian kidnappers. | ||
| 1991 In Bangladesh a cyclone killed over 131,000 & left 9 million homeless | ||
| 1991 Major-General Justin Lekhanya, Lesotho's military strongman, was ousted in an army coup. | ||
| 1992 NATO appointed U.S. General John Shalikashvili as the new commander of its forces in Europe. | ||
| 1992 Mutinous soldiers in Sierra Leone overthrew President Joseph Momoh in a coup. | ||
| 1997 Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes | ||
| 1997 Tajikistan's President Imomali Rakhmonov survived an assassination attempt in which two other people were killed and 60 were injured. | ||
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