About April 30
April 30, 2024 is the 121st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 245 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 274 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 30
- 1006 –Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, appears in the constellation Lupus.
- 1863 –A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
- 1894 –Coxey’s Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
- 1920 –Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1927 –The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women’s federal prison in the United States.
- 1938 –The animated cartoon short Porky’s Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
- 1938 –The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
- 1939 –NBC 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.
- 1939 –The 1939-40 New York World’s Fair opens.
- 1953 –In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.
- 1961 –K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
- 1963 –The 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.
- 1966 –The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California.
- 1993 –CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
- 1995 –U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.
- 1999 –Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the number of members to 10.
- 2004 –U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
- 2008 –Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.
- 2009 –Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- 2009 –Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen’s Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
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