{"id":4457,"date":"2023-04-30T04:47:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T23:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:20:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:50:32","slug":"history-of-30-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-30-april\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 30 April"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 30 April<\/h2>\n

1900<\/strong> – Hawaii was organized as an official U.S. territory.<\/p>\n

1900<\/strong> – Casey Jones was killed while trying to save the runaway train “Cannonball Express.”<\/p>\n

1930<\/strong> – The Soviet Union proposed a military alliance with France and Great Britain.<\/p>\n

1938<\/strong> – Happy Rabbit appeared in the cartoon “Porky’s Hare Hunt.” This rabbit would later evolve into Bugs Bunny.<\/p>\n

1939<\/strong> – The first railroad car equipped with fluorescent lights was put into service. The train car was known as the “General Pershing Zephyr.”<\/p>\n

1939<\/strong> – Lou Gehrig played his last game with the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n

1940<\/strong> – Belle Martell was licensed in California by state boxing officials. She was the first American woman, prizefight referee.<\/p>\n

1943<\/strong> – The British submarine\u00a0HMS Seraph<\/i>\u00a0dropped ‘the man who never was,’ a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain.<\/p>\n

1945<\/strong> – Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. They had been married for one day. One week later Germany surrendered unconditionally.<\/p>\n

1945<\/strong> – Arthur Godfrey began his CBS radio morning show “Arthur Godfrey Time.” It ran until this day in 1972.<\/p>\n

1947<\/strong> – The name of Boulder Dam, in Nevada, was changed back to Hoover Dam.<\/p>\n

1948<\/strong> – The Organization of American States (OAS) held its first meeting in Bogota, Colombia. The institution’s goal was to facilitate better relations between the member nations and to help prevent the spread of communism in the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n

1952<\/strong> – Mr. Potato Head became the first toy to be advertised on network television.<\/p>\n

1953<\/strong> – The British West Indian colonies agreed on the formation of the British Caribbean Federation that would eventually become a self-governing unit in the British Commonwealth.<\/p>\n

1964<\/strong> – The FCC ruled that all TV receivers should be equipped to receive both VHF and UHF channels.<\/p>\n

1968<\/strong> – U.S. Marines attacked a division of North Vietnamese in the village of Dai Do.<\/p>\n

1970<\/strong> – U.S. troops invaded Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese Army base areas. The announcement by\u00a0U.S. President Nixon led\u00a0to widespread protests.<\/p>\n

1972<\/strong> – The North Vietnamese launched an invasion of the South.<\/p>\n

1973<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Nixon announced the resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and other top aides.<\/p>\n

1975<\/strong> – Communists North Vietnamese troops entered the Independence Palace of South Vietnam in Saigon. 11 Marines lifted off of the U.S. Embassy were the last soldiers to evacuate.<\/p>\n

1980<\/strong> – Terrorists seized the Iranian Embassy in London.<\/p>\n

1984<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Reagan\u00a0signed cultural and scientific agreements with China. He also signed a tax accord that would make it easier for American companies to operate in China.<\/p>\n

1991<\/strong> – An estimated 125,000 people were killed in a cyclone that hit Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

1993<\/strong> – CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain.<\/p>\n

1993<\/strong> – Monica Seles was stabbed in the back during a tennis match in Hamburg, Germany. The man called himself a fan of second-ranked Steffi Graf. He was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm and received a suspended sentence.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> – NATO was expanded to include Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. The three nations were formally admitted the following April at NATO’s 50th-anniversary summit.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> – United and Delta airlines announced their alliance that would give them control of\u00a01<\/sup>\/3<\/sub>\u00a0of all U.S. passenger seats.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> – In the U.S., Federal regulators fined a contractor $2.25 million for improper handling of oxygen canisters on ValuJet that crashed in the Florida Everglades in 1996.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> – Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was overwhelmingly approved for another five years as president.<\/p>\n

2012<\/strong> – One World Trade Center became the tallest structure in New York when it surpassed the height of the Empire State Building.<\/p>\n

2015<\/strong> – NASA’s Messenger spacecraft crashed into the surface of Mercury. The space probe sent back more than 270,000 pictures to earth.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
    \n
  • 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nicole Kaczmarski, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0John O’Shea, Irish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kunal Nayyar, British-Indian actor<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Justin Vernon, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kirsten Dunst, American actress<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Drew Seeley, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chris Carr, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Tatjana H\u00fcfner, German luger<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Marina Tomi\u0107, Slovenian hurdler<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Troy Williamson, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Seimone Augustus, American basketball player<\/sup><\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Shawn Daivari, American wrestler, and manager<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Risto M\u00e4tas, Estonian javelin thrower<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lee Roache, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brandon Bass, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ashley Alexandra Dupr\u00e9, American journalist, singer, and prostitute<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dianna Agron, American actress, and singer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Martin Kaldvee, Estonian biathlete<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Alipate Carlile, Australian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Chris Morris, South African cricketer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rohit Sharma, Indian cricketer<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Andy Allen, Australian chef<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sander Baart, Dutch field hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Liu Xijun, Chinese singer<\/sup><\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Oh Hye-RI, South Korean taekwondo athlete<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jang Wooyoung, South Korean singer and actor<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jonny Brownlee, English triathlete<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mac DeMarco, Canadian singer-songwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kaarel Kiidron, Estonian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chris Kreider, American ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Travis Scott, American rapper and producer<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Marc-Andr\u00e9 Ter Stegen, German footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dion Dreesens, Dutch swimmer<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chae Seo-jin, South Korean actress<\/sup><\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Wang Yafan, a Chinese tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Luke Friend, English singer<\/li>\n
  • 1997<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Adam Ryczkowski, Polish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1999<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jorden van Foreest, Dutch chess grandmaster<\/li>\n
  • 2003<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jung Yun-Seok, South Korean actor<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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