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
- 311 –The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
- 313 –Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.
- 1492 –Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
- 1513 –Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.
- 1671 –Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
- 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.
- 1838 –Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
- 1871 –The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
- 1904 –The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1927 –The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women’s federal prison in the United States.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1999 –Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the number of members to 10.
- 2009 –Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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