About April 30
April 30, 2023 is the 120th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 245 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 286 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.
- 1812 –The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
- 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.
- 1900 –Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
- 1920 –Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1925 –Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 1967 –The Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ’s Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station.
- 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.
- 1980 –Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
- 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
- 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 –Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen’s Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
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