30 Aprile

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 - 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 
 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 fundraiser
 1946 - Carl XVI Gustaf o Swaden
 1948 - Perry King, American actor
 1949 - António Guterres, Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions
 1954 - Kim Darroch, Breetish diplomat
 1956 - Lars von Trier, Dens film director
 1959 - Stephen Harper, 22nt Prime meenister o Canadae
 1967 - Philipp Kirkorov, Bulgarie-Roushie sangster
 1968 - Verona Pooth, German celebrity
 1969 - Justine Greening, Inglish politeecian
 1980 - Sam Heughan, Scots actor
 1982 - Kirsten Dunst, American actress
 1985 - Gal Gadot, Israeli actress an model
 1986 - WP Nel, Sooth African-Scots rugby union player
 1989 - Baauer, American record producer
 1994 - 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 
 Eat day o the follaein saunts in the Roman Catholic Kirk:
Saunt Maximus, 3rd century mairtyr
Saunt Louis, Amator, an Peter, mairtyrt bi the Moors in 855
Saunt Marianus an James, mairtyrs in Numidia in 259
Suitbert the Younger (d. 807)
Catherine o Siena
Joseph Benedict Cottolengo
Pius V, Pape
Robert
 Walpurgis Nicht
 Umwhile Koninginnedag (Queen's Day) in the Netherlands

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