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The 30t o Aprile is the 120t day o the year (121st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 245 days ti come.
Events
1789 : Inauguration o George Washington 1803 : Louisiana Purchase 1812 : Banner o Louisiana 1789 - George Washington becomes the first Preses o the Unitit States .1802 - The Puentes Reservoir Break in Spain kills 608 fowk.1803 - The Unitit States purchases the Louisiana territory frae Fraunce , greatly increasin its laund aurie.1812 - Louisiana becomes a state o the Unitit States .1838 - Nicaragua declares unthirldom frae the Central American Federation.1863 - American Ceevil War : The Battle o Chancellorsville stairts.1900 - Hawaii becomes a Unitit States territory.1907 - Honolulu becomes an independent ceety.1908 - Japanese smaw cruiser "Matsushima" sinks efter a muneetions splosion naur Taiwan , killin 206 oot o 347 men on baird.1941 - Warld War II : Naur Rockall , Breetish passenger an freight steamer "Nerissa" is sunk bi a German U-boat, killin 207 fowk.1945 - Warld War II : Adolf Hitler an Eva Braun commit suicide; The Red Airmy raises the Banner o the Soviet Union ower Berlin 's Reichstag biggin .1945 - Warld War II : Unitit States troops tak Munich .1952 - The Diary o Anne Frank is published in the Inglis leid .1975 - The Faw o Saigon ends the Vietnam War .1980 - Juliana o the Netherlands abdicates the throne in favour o her dochter, Beatrix .1980 - The Siege at the Iranian Embassy in Lunnon stairts.1993 - The Warld Wide Web is released for use.1993 - Tennis : Monica Seles is stabbed at a toornament in Germany bi an obsessed fan o her rival, Steffi Graf .1994 - Austrick racin driver Roland Ratzenberger dees in a crash in practice for the San Marino Grand Prix; Ayrton Senna is kilt in a crash at the Grand Prix the naxt day.1999 - Cambodie jyns ASEAN .2009 - An attemptit attack on the Dutch Ryal Faimily in Apeldoorn results in 7 daiths, efter a car is driven intae a crowd.2012 - A ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in Indie , killin 103 fowk.2013 - Beatrix o the Netherlands abdicates the throne in favour o her son, Willem-Alexander .2019 - Emperor Akihito o Japan abdicates the throne in favour o his son, Naruhito .
Births
Carl Friedrich Gauss Juliana o the Netherlands 1245 - Philip III o Fraunce (d. 1285 )1310 - Casimir III the Great , King o Poland (d. 1368 )1514 - Alexander Stewart, Duke o Ross (d. 1515 )1586 - Saunt Rose o Lima , first Catholic saunt o Americae (d. 1617 )1602 - Robert Baillie , Scots writer (d. 1662 )1662 - Mary II, Queen o Scots (d. 1694 )1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss , German mathemateecian, astronomer an pheesicist (d. 1855 )1823 - George Campbell, 8t Duke o Argyll , Scots peer an politeecian (d. 1902 )1883 - Jaroslav Hasek , Czech humorist, writer, jurnalist an anarchist (d. 1923 )1893 - Joachim von Ribbentrop , Foreign Meenister o Nazi Germany (d. 1946 )1901 - Simon Kuznets , American economist (d. 1985 )1909 - Juliana o the Netherlands (d. 2004 )1916 - Claude Shannon , American mathemateecian an electrical ingineer (d. 2001 )1920 - Captain Tom , Inglis Warld War II veteran an NHS fundraiser1946 - Carl XVI Gustaf o Swaden 1948 - Perry King , American actor1949 - António Guterres , Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions 1954 - Kim Darroch , Breetish diplomat1956 - Lars von Trier , Dens film director1959 - Stephen Harper , 22nt Prime meenister o Canadae 1967 - Philipp Kirkorov , Bulgarie-Roushie sangster1968 - Verona Pooth , German celebrity1969 - Justine Greening , Inglish politeecian 1980 - Sam Heughan , Scots actor1982 - Kirsten Dunst , American actress1985 - Gal Gadot , Israeli actress an model1986 - WP Nel , Sooth African-Scots rugby union player1989 - Baauer , American record producer1994 - Craig Benson , Scots soummer
Daiths
65 - Lucan , Roman poet (b. 39 )1362 - Sigismund III Vasa , King o Poland an Swaden 1883 - Edouard Manet , French penter (b. 1832 )1945 - Eva Braun , mistress an wife o Adolf Hitler (b. 1912 )1945 - Adolf Hitler , Nazi leader (b. 1889 )1956 - Alben W. Barkley , Vice Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1877 )1959 - Alex Venters , Scots fitbawer (b. 1913 )1983 - Muddy Waters , American muisicker (b. 1913 )1985 - Scot Symon , Scots fitbawer (b. 1911 )1989 - Sergio Leone , Italian film director (b. 1929 )1994 - Roland Ratzenberger , Austrick racin driver (b. 1960 )2011 - Eddie Turnbull , Scots fitbawer (b. 1923 )2015 - Ben E. King , American sangster (b. 1938 )2016 - Harry Kroto , Inglis chemist (b. 1939 )
Halidays
Walpurgis Nicht bonfire in Swaden Eat day o the follaein saunts in the Roman Catholic Kirk:
Walpurgis Nicht
Umwhile Koninginnedag (Queen's Day) in the Netherlands
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