Historical Events on April 30

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• 311 Roman Emperor Galerius issues Edict of Toleration, ending persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
• 313 Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule
• 711 Islamic conquest of Iberia: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus)

• 1315 French chamberlain Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon after being convicted of sorcery
• 1349 Jewish community of Radolfzell, Germany, exterminated
• 1396 Crusade of Nicopolis: one of the last large-scale medieval crusades departs from Dijon led by the Count of Nevers, eldest son of the Duke of Burgundy
• 1483 Orbital calculations suggest that on this day, Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503

• 1492 Spain announces it will expel all Jews
• 1506 Philip of Burgundy & England sign trade agreement

• 1562 Jean Ribault and colonists arrive in Florida, the first French colonists in North America
• 1563 Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI
• 1573 The spire of Beauvais Cathedral, France, which made it the tallest human-made monument in the world at the time, collapses (never rebuilt)
• 1598 1st theater performance in America, the Spanish comedy Rio Grande
• 1616 King James I of England leaves Brielle
• 1650 French rebel Henri de la Tour Turenne signs treaty with Spain
• 1661 Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa
• 1665 Naval battle in Bay of Barbados between attacking Dutch fleet led by Michiel de Ruyter damages ships but fails to take the English-held fort [1]
• 1671 Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed for treason
• 1695 William Congreve's Restoration comedy "Love for Love" premieres in London
• 1722 Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant

• 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle drawn up ending the War of the Austrian Succession

• 1774 Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee for the second time

• 1790 Dutch Colonial troops occupy guerilla leader Boni's maroon village in Suriname
• 1794 The Battle of Boulou: French forces defeat a Spanish army under General Union during the War of the Pyrenees
• 1798 US Department of the Navy forms

• 1804 The New Hague Theater opens in The Hague, Netherlands
• 1808 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
• 1812 (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state
• 1838 Nicaragua declares independence from the Federal Republic of Central America

• 1857 San Jose State University forms

• 1860 Navaho indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby)

• 1862 Swift Run Gap skirmishes in West Virginia

• 1863 Mexican forces attacked the French Foreign Legion in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
• 1864 Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; Confederate General William Reid Scurry is killed
• 1864 New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee
• 1869 Hawaiian YMCA organized
• 1871 The Camp Grant Massacre of Apache Indians in Arizona Territory is committed by white and Mexican adventurers, 144 die
• 1880 The Metropolitan Museum's new premises opens at its current site at Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey
• 1885 Henry Lee Higginson starts the "Popular Music" series with the Boston Symphony, which evolves into the Boston Pops Orchestra in 1900
• 1887 1st game played at Broad & Huntingdon St Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Phillies beat Giants 19-10
• 1888 1888 Moradabad hailstorm: hail stones allegedly as big as oranges kill 246 people and some 1600 sheep and cattle in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
• 1889 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration

• 1898 Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl
• 1900 Casey Jones dies heroically in a train wreck at Vaughn, Mississippi, while driving Cannonball Express (immortalized in "Ballad of Casey Jones")
• 1900 The "Hawaiian Organic Act" is enacted by US Congress making Hawaii a US territory

• 1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) inaugural home opener at Hilltop Park, Manhattan; beat Washington Senators, 6-2
• 1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut at St. Louis World's Fair invented by Ernest A. Hamwi (independently of other claimant Italo Marchiony in NY)
• 1905 First official soccer game between neighbouring countries Belgium-Netherlands; Dutch win, 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Antwerp
• 1907 Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes an independent city.
• 1910 Cleveland Naps Addie Joss limits St.Louis Browns to 8 hits in 2-1 victory
• 1911 Portugal approves female suffrage
• 1916 Germany ratifies bill bringing in Daylight Saving Time - first country in the world
• 1918 Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen
• 1919 Phillies beat Brooklyn Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings
• 1920 The British Government ends military conscription
• 1921 1st American Professional Football Association Championship (1920): undefeated Akron Pros awarded inaugural title
• 1921 American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron, Ohio

• 1922 Chicago pitcher Charlie Robertson throws a perfect game as the White Sox beat Detroit Tigers, 2-0 at Navin Field
• 1925 Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity

• 1928 Cherkess Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1957)
• 1929 Ernst Streeruwitz becomes Chancellor of Austria, lasts less than 5 months
• 1934 Austria gets "Austrian fascist" constitution
• 1935 World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul
• 1937 The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative

• 1939 Tropicana ballet of Havana, Cuba, forms
• 1940 Air New Zealand then known as TEAL makes its inaugural flight with a flight from Auckland to Sydney. Later becomes 1st airline in the world to boil hot water in-flight to offer customers hot tea and coffee.
• 1940 Brooklyn Dodger Tex Carleton no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 3-0
• 1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wisconsin
• 1943 Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms
• 1943 Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry

• 1944 NY Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs

• 1945 Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed

• 1945 Record 48 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month
• 1945 Red Army occupies Demmin

• 1945 Soviet Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp
• 1945 US troops attack the Elbe

• 1947 Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
• 1948 Organization of American States charter signed at Bogotá, Colombia
• 1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
• 1952 Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television

• 1955 Cuban bandleader Pérez Prado's mambo version of "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White" goes #1 for 10 weeks
• 1955 Element atomic number 101, Mendelevium, announced
• 1955 Imperial Bank of India nationalized
• 1955 West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & higher wages

• 1961 "Tossin' and Turnin'" single released by Bobby Lewis (Billboard Song of the Year, 1961)
• 1961 1st shuttle flights between Washington, D.C., Boston & NYC begin (Eastern)
• 1961 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Mickey Wright wins her 5th major title by 1 stroke from Patty Berg & Louise Suggs

• 1962 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Mickey Wright wins her 8th major title in a playoff with Ruth Jessen

• 1966 Anton LaVey founds the Church of Satan in San Francisco, California
• 1967 MLB Baltimore Orioles' Stu Miller & Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Tigers

• 1968 3 Oriole pitchers walk 14 NY Yankees in a 9 inning game
• 1969 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jim Maloney records his second MLB no-hitter in 10-0 rout of Houston Astros
• 1969 WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin, New Hampshire (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1970 Cubs Billy Williams is 1st NLer to play in 1,000 consecutive games
• 1970 US troops invade Cambodia
• 1972 "Arthur Godfrey Time" ends a 27 year run on radio

• 1973 Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments

• 1975 North Vietnamese troops capture Saigon, ending the Vietnam War
• 1976 "Silly Love Songs" single released by Wings (Billboard Song of the Year, 1976)

• 1976 Royal Canadian Mint opens a branch in Winnipeg, Manitoba
• 1976 The Betsy Ross Bridge, spanning the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Pennsauken, New Jersey opens

• 1977 Ron Cey sets record of 29 RBIs in April

• 1980 Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, abdicates; Princess Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard (42) becomes Queen Beatrix
• 1980 Ronald Harwood's play "The Dresser" premieres in London with Freddie Jones and Tom Courtenay
• 1980 Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London
• 1982 Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as President of El Salvador
• 1982 Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season
• 1982 Iranian offensive in Khusistan
• 1984 1,700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are, Sweden
• 1984 Strong winds cause a 30 min delay in Toronto Blue Jays game
• 1985 "Shoah", French documentary about the Holocaust, directed by Claude Lanzmann, starring Richard Glazar and Raul Hilberg, premieres in Paris

• 1985 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 1985 Last edition of Brink Daily Mail and Sunday Express in South Africa
• 1985 NFL Draft: Virginia Tech defensive end Bruce Smith first pick by Buffalo Bills
• 1986 Ashrita Furman performs 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles

• 1986 Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games
• 1987 Lou Lamoriello is named NJ Devils President
• 1988 NJ Devils beat Caps 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final
• 1988 NY Knights 1st arena football game beats Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in LA)

• 1988 The then largest banana split ever, at 4.5 miles long, is made along Market Street in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
• 1988 World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Australia
• 1989 Chicago newspaper movie critics Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert film their 500th movie-review television show

• 1989 US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup

• 1990 US hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians

• 1993 The World Wide Web source code is released by CERN, making the software freely available to all
• 1993 Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.
• 1995 After 120 years the last 15 A & S department stores close
• 1996 Dutch Itallian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral
• 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Grand Rapids MI on WKLQ 94.5 FM

• 1997 Atlanta Braves win record 19 games in April
• 1997 Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes
• 1997 President Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College

• 1997 Tajik Prest Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt
• 1997 Tino Martinez hits record 34 RBIs in April
• 1999 Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the total members to 10
• 2000 Pope John Paul II canonizes Polish nun Sister Faustina [Helena Kowalska] as a Catholic saint
• 2001 The Mitchell Report on the Arab-Israeli conflict is published

• 2004 U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison

• 2009 Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
• 2009 Failed attack on the Dutch Royal Family results in 7 deaths and 17 injured
• 2009 The United Kingdom formally ends combat operations in Iraq
• 2012 Manchester City defeat Manchester United 1-0 in what is claimed to be the biggest match in the English Premier League's history

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