About April 30
April 30, 2025 is the 120th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 245 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 293 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 30
- 313 –Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.
- 1315 –Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon.
- 1513 –Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.
- 1789 –On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become 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.
- 1812 –The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
- 1894 –Coxey’s Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
- 1904 –The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1925 –Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity.
- 1927 –Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
- 1945 –World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
- 1948 –In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
- 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.
- 1973 –Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aids H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and others have resigned.
- 1975 –Fall of Saigon (or Liberation of Saigon from the Communist perspective): Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh.
- 1993 –CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
- 1993 –Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany
- 2009 –Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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