About April 30
April 30, 2025 is the 120th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 245 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 293 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 30
- 1315 –Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon.
- 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.
- 1803 –Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
- 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.
- 1871 –The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
- 1894 –Coxey’s Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
- 1900 –Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
- 1904 –The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1907 –Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
- 1920 –Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1938 –The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.
- 1948 –In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
- 1980 –Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
- 1993 –Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany
- 1999 –Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the number of members to 10.
- 2008 –Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.
- 2009 –Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- 2009 –Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen’s Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
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