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.
- 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.
- 1812 –The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
- 1863 –A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
- 1900 –Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
- 1925 –Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity.
- 1927 –Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
- 1938 –The animated cartoon short Porky’s Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
- 1938 –The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
- 1948 –In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
- 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.
- 1967 –The Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ’s Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station.
- 1980 –Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
- 1993 –CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
- 2009 –Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen’s Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
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