SomeFacts | April 30

On this day - April 30

311 — The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ...

1315 — Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, ...

1492 — Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of ...

1513 — Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is ...

1598 — Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing ...

1598 — Juan de Oñate begins the conquest of Santa Fe de Nuevo México.

1636 — Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a ...

1789 — On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York ...

1803 — Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana ...

1812 — The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the ...

1838 — Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American ...

1859 — Charles Dickens publishes the first edition of his literary ...

1863 — A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force ...

1864 — American Civil War: Confederate forces led by General E. Kirby ...

1871 — The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.

1885 — Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating ...

1897 — J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his ...

1900 — Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford ...

1905 — Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the ...

1925 — Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & ...

1927 — The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, ...

1937 — The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for ...

1939 — NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in ...

1939 — The 1939–40 New York World's Fair opens.

1943 — World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near ...

1945 — World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, ...

1945 — World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit ...

1947 — In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.

1948 — In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is ...

1956 — Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley ...

1957 — Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered ...

1961 — K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear ...

1963 — The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the ...

1973 — Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon fires White ...

1975 — Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The ...

1979 — Eruption of Mount Marapi: Mount Marapi, a complex volcano on ...

1980 — The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London.

1980 — Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following ...

1982 — The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta, India.

1989 — The Monkseaton shootings occur in Tyne and Wear, England. One ...

1993 — CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.

1994 — Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a ...

1999 — Neo-Nazi David Copeland carries out the last of his three nail ...

2000 — Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 ...

2004 — U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers ...

2008 — Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg are confirmed by ...

2009 — Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten ...

2009 — Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

2012 — An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India ...

2013 — Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands ...

2014 — A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures ...

2021 — Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in ...