Notable Historical Events on April 30th
April 30th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
311 |
Roman Emperor Galerius isssues Edict of Toleration, ending persercution 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). |
1064 |
German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland |
1315 |
Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon. |
1349 |
Jewish community at Radolszell, Germany, exterminated |
1396 |
Crusaders & Earl of Nevers depart from Dijon |
1483 |
Orbital calculations suggest that on this day, Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit until July 23, 1503. |
1492 |
Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet |
1492 |
Spain announces it will expels all Jews |
1506 |
Philip of Burgundy & England sign trade agreement |
1527 |
England & France sign Treaty of Westminster to end the War of the League of Cognac |
1562 |
1st French colonists in North America: Jean Ribault & colonists arrive in Florida |
1563 |
Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI |
1598 |
1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande) |
1616 |
King James I of England leaves Brielle/Vlissingen |
1650 |
French rebel Henri de la Tour Turenne signs treaty with Spain |
1661 |
Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa |
1671 |
Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed. |
1695 |
William Congreve's "Love for Love" premieres in London |
1722 |
Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant |
1725 |
Emperor Charles VI & King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna |
1748 |
Ceasefire at Aken ends |
1763 |
Member of Parliament and journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower of London, charged with seditious libel |
1772 |
John Clais patents 1st scale |
1774 |
Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee |
1789 |
George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of the United States of America |
1790 |
Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village |
1794 |
The Battle of Boulou is fought, in which French forces defeated the Spanish under General Union. |
1798 |
US Dept of Navy forms |
1803 |
US doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase ($15 million) |
1804 |
Hague's Theater opens |
1808 |
1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri |
1812 |
(Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state |
1838 |
Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation |
1852 |
Anton Rubinsteins opera "Dmitri Donskoi" premieres in St Petersburg |
1857 |
San Jose State University forms |
1859 |
Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is first published in literary periodical All the Year Round, continues in weekly installments until Nov 26 |
1859 |
Paul Morphy returns from 10-month chess tour of Europe, retires |
1860 |
Navaho indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby) |
1861 |
President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory (US Civil War) |
1862 |
Swift Run Gap, WV skirmishes |
1863 |
-5/1] Battle of Snyder's Bluff, Virginia (part of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War): General Sherman beaten by Confederate forces |
1863 |
Mexican forces attacked the French Foreign Legion in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico. |
1864 |
Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; Gen W R 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 Apaches in Arizona Territory, perpetrated by white & Mexican adventurers; 144 die |
1885 |
Boston Pops Orchestra forms |
1887 |
1st game played at Broad & Huntingdon St Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Phillies beat Giants 19-10 |
1888 |
Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi |
1889 |
1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration |
1898 |
Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl |
1900 |
165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match |
1900 |
USA annexes Hawaii |
1900 |
Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express. |
1902 |
Debussy's opera "Pelléas et Mélissande" premieres in Paris |
1903 |
NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1st home game, (Hilltop Park-168th St & Broadway, Manhattan), they beat Wash Senators, 6-2 |
1904 |
Ice cream cone makes its debut |
1905 |
1st official soccer game between Belgium-Netherlands (1-4) |
1907 |
Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city. |
1910 |
Cleve Indian Addie Joss wins 2nd no-hitter beating White Sox |
1911 |
Portugal approves female suffrage |
1916 |
Chicago Cubs play 1st game at Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) beat Reds |
1918 |
Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen |
1919 |
Phillies beat Bkln Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings |
1921 |
American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron |
1921 |
Pope Benedict XV encyclical "On Dante" |
1922 |
Chicago White Sox Charles Robertson perfect games Detroit Tigers, 2-0 |
1925 |
Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity. |
1927 |
Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State |
1928 |
Cherkess Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1957) |
1929 |
Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austria |
1934 |
Austria gets "Austrian facist" 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. |
1938 |
Bradman scores 258 Aust v Worcs, 293 mins, 33 fours 1 five |
1938 |
The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End. |
1939 |
New York World's Fair opens |
1939 |
NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of NY World's Fair |
1939 |
Tropicana ballet of Havana, Cuba, forms |
1940 |
Bkln Dodger Tex Carleton no-hits Cin Reds, 3-0 |
1941 |
Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia |
1942 |
1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi |
1943 |
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms |
1943 |
Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry |
1943 |
Noel Coward's "This Happy Breed" premieres in London |
1944 |
NY Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs |
1944 |
NY Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th time |
1945 |
"Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio |
1945 |
Concentration camp Munchen-Allag freed |
1945 |
"Lord Haw-Haw" calls for crusade against the bolsheviks |
1945 |
Red Army occupies Demmin |
1945 |
Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin |
1945 |
Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp |
1945 |
US troops attack the Elbe |
1946 |
Cleve Indian Bob Feller's 2nd no-hitter beats NY Yankees, 1-0 |
1947 |
Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover |
1948 |
"Inside USA" opens at Century Theater NYC for 339 performances |
1948 |
Org of American States charter signed at Bogota, Colombia |
1948 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
1950 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA 144-hole Golf Weathervane |
1952 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Stockton Golf Open |
1952 |
Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television |
1953 |
Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League |
1954 |
Darius Milhauds 4th Concert for piano/orch premieres in Haifa |
1955 |
Element 101, Mendelevium, announced |
1955 |
Imperial Bank of India nationalized |
1955 |
Perez Prado's "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White" goes #1 for 10 weeks |
1955 |
West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & more wages |
1958 |
Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits |
1961 |
1st shuttle flights between Washington DC, Boston & NYC begin (Eastern) |
1961 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
1961 |
Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize |
1961 |
SF Giant Willie Mays hits 4 HRs in a game |
1962 |
NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m |
1962 |
Willie Mays hits 4 HRs |
1967 |
Highest tower to the world finished, 537m (USSR) |
1967 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
1967 |
NY Met pitcher Tom Seaver wins hist 1st game |
1967 |
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 |
Cin Red Jim Maloney 3rd no-hitter beats Houston Astros, 10-0 |
1969 |
WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Cubs Billy Williams is 1st NLer to play in 1,000 consecutive games |
1970 |
US troops invade Cambodia |
1971 |
25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee beat Balt Bullets in 4 games |
1972 |
"Arthur Godfrey Time" ends a 27 year run on radio |
1972 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Open |
1973 |
Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al |
1973 |
Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love" |
1973 |
Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments |
1974 |
US President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings |
1975 |
Last US helicopter leaves US embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders |
1976 |
Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1976 |
Royal Canadian Mint opens a branch in Winnipeg, Manitoba |
1976 |
Wings release "Silly Love Songs" |
1977 |
"Party with Comden & Green" closes at Morosco NYC after 92 perfs |
1977 |
Billy Graham beats Bruno Sammartino in Baltimore, to become WWF champ |
1977 |
Ron Cey sets record of 29 RBIs in April |
1978 |
"Elvis: The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace NYC after 101 perfs |
1978 |
Janet Coles wins LPGA Natural Light Lady Tara Golf Classic |
1979 |
Mary Therese Friel, (New York), crowned 28th Miss USA |
1980 |
"Barnum" opens at St James Theater NYC for 854 performances |
1980 |
Ronald Harwood's "The Dresser" premieres in London |
1980 |
Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London |
1980 |
Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, abdicates; Princess Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard becomes Queen |
1981 |
"Can-Can" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances |
1981 |
16th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell & George Jones |
1982 |
Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as pres of El Salvador |
1982 |
Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season |
1982 |
Iranian offensive in Khusistan |
1983 |
Bruins 3-Isles 7-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 2-1 lead |
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 |
Dale Murphy drives in record tying 28th & 29th runs of April |
1985 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1985 |
Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa |
1986 |
Ashrita Furman peformed 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 |
1987 |
NY Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game |
1988 |
Baltimore Orioles win record 14th straight from beginning of season |
1988 |
Largest banana split ever, at 455 miles long, was made in Pennsylvania |
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 |
NY Yank Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets AL & ties ML Rec |
1988 |
World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Australia |
1989 |
Critics Siskel & Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show |
1989 |
Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
1989 |
Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo of Madagascar |
1989 |
US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
1990 |
As Met pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Braves score |
1990 |
Seattle's Brian Holman's perfect game broken up with 2 outs in 9th |
1990 |
US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space |
1990 |
US hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians |
1991 |
In Bangladesh a cyclone killed over 131,000 & left 9 million homeless |
1992 |
208th & final episode of Cosby Show on NBC-TV |
1993 |
The World Wide Web is born at CERN. |
1993 |
Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom. |
1995 |
"Blood Brothers" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 839 perfs |
1995 |
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 24 perfs |
1995 |
"Rose Tattoo" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 80 perfs |
1995 |
After 120 years the last 15 A & S dept stores close |
1995 |
Val Skinner wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship |
1996 |
"Buried Child" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 77 performances |
1996 |
Dutch/Itallian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral |
1996 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Grand Rapids MI on WKLQ 94.5 FM |
1996 |
US President Clinton approves the sale of $227 million of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; US gas prices are at their highest levels in 5 years |
1997 |
"London Assurance" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 72 performances |
1997 |
42 million watch Ellen DeGeneres admit she is gay |
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. |
2001 |
The Mitchell Report on the Arab-Israeli conflict is published. |
2001 |
US Vice-President Cheney calls fors increased domestic production of fossil fuels and increased usage of nuclear power to meet America's energy demand |
2002 |
A referendum in Pakistan overwhelmingly approves the Presidency of Pervez Musharraf for another five years. |
2004 |
U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. |
2008 |
Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia, were confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters. |
2008 |
Heidi Klum launches her clothing line for Jordache |
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 |
The unfinished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State building to become the tallest building in New York |
2012 |
Spain's economy double dips after a 0.3% contraction and 25% unemployment rate |
2012 |
Overloaded ferry in the Brahmaputra River, India, killing 103 people |
2012 |
Manchester City defeat Manchester United 1-0 in what is claimed to be the biggest match in the English Premier League's history |
2013 |
13 people are killed after a bomb explodes in Damascus |
2013 |
Willem-Alexander becomes the first male Monarch of Netherlands in 123 years |
2013 |
Apple offers the largest bond offering from a private company of 17 Billion |
2013 |
Hannah Warren, who was born without a trachea, at 2, becomes the youngest patient to receive a stem cell bioengineered organ |
2015 |
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers select QB Jameis Winston as the #1 pick in the 2015 NFL draft. QB Marcus Mariota is selected second by the Tennessee Titans. |
2016 |
First Zika death in US lived in Puerto Rico |
2016 |
Apple's stock suffers worst week since 2013 |
2017 |
Joshua wins world titles with 11th-round stoppage of Klitschko |
2018 |
25 killed, including 7 journalists, in Kabul suicide bombing |
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