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.
- 1492 –Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
- 1671 –Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
- 1871 –The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
- 1900 –Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
- 1904 –The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1907 –Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
- 1927 –Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 1947 –In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.
- 1948 –In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
- 1956 –Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming “I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty.”
- 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.
- 1993 –CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
- 2004 –U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
- 2009 –Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen’s Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
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