Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 30
This is a list of selected April 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Seal of the Organization of American States
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George Washington (requires undeletion)
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Hoisting of American Colors over Louisiana by Thure de Thulstrup -
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American Falls -
William McIntosh -
Coxey's Army -
Faustina Kowalska
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Walpurgis Night in various European countries | refimprove section |
| Persian Gulf National Day in Iran; | multiple issues |
| Children's Day in Mexico; | refimprove section |
| 1006 – SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, first appeared in the constellation Lupus. | needs cleanup |
| 1557 – Arauco War: Spanish forces under Governor Francisco de Villagra launched a surprise attack at dawn against the Mapuche, headed by their toqui Lautaro, in present-day Chile. | Date unreferenced, in conflict with date in other articles (April 29 according to Arauco War and Lautaro) |
| 1598 – King Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, granting freedom of religion to the Huguenots. | Date is not mentioned in target article. |
| 1636 – Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recaptured a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege. | unreferenced section |
| 1671 – Petar Zrinski, the Ban of Croatia, was executed for treason for his role in the attempted Croatian-Hungarian rebellion of 1664–70. | refimprove section |
| 1803 – The United States purchased France's claim to the Louisiana Territory for 78 million francs, or less than US$.03 per acre ($.07/ha). | lots of CN tags (6) |
| 1825 - Creek chief William McIntosh was executed by being stabbed in the heart for having signed a treaty ceding much of remaining Creek lands to the United States. | refimprove section |
| 1900 – American railroad engineer Casey Jones became a folk hero when he was the only fatality in a train collision in Vaughan, Mississippi. | refimprove section, trivial pop culture references |
| 1939 – At the New York World's Fair, NBC, the first major broadcast network in the United States, inaugurated its regularly scheduled television service with a broadcast of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's opening day ceremonial address. | refimprove section |
| 1948 – Twenty-one countries signed a charter in Bogotá, Colombia, establishing the Organization of American States. | refimprove section |
| 1980 – Iranian Arab separatists captured the Iranian Embassy in London, beginning a six-day siege. | better saved for May 5 (conclusion of the siege, which is much more famous) |
| 1993 – Monica Seles, the number-one ranked women's tennis player at the time, was stabbed in the back during a match by a man obsessed with her rival Steffi Graf. | refimprove section |
| 2009 – A gunman went on a shooting spree at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, a public university in Baku, killing 12 people before committing suicide. | too many quotes |
Eligible
- 313 – Civil wars of the Tetrarchy: An outnumbered army led by Roman emperor Licinius defeated his rival Maximinus II's forces at the Battle of Tzirallum.
- 1789 – George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City.
- 1894 – A crowd of workers, unemployed due to the Panic of 1893, conducted the first significant popular protest march on Washington, D.C.
- 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opened near Alderson, West Virginia, as the first federal prison for women in the United States.
- 1943 – Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph began Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming invasion of Sicily.
- 1945 – World War II: As Allied forces closed in on Berlin, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide in the Führerbunker one day after their marriage.
- 1963 – The Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews led to a bus boycott in Bristol, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
- 1975 – American forces completed a helicopter evacuation of U.S. citizens, South Vietnamese civilians and others from Saigon, just before North Vietnamese troops captured the city, ending the Vietnam War.
- 1997 – "The Puppy Episode" of Ellen was broadcast, in which the main character came out as lesbian, two weeks after the actor had done so herself.
- 2000 – Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun whose apparitions of Jesus inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, was canonized by Pope John Paul II.
- 2009 – A Dutch man drove his car at high speed into a parade in an attempt to kill the Dutch royal family.
- Born/died: | Jean-Baptiste de La Salle |b|1651| Marie of the Incarnation |d|1672| Robert Plot |d|1696| Eugen Bleuler |b|1857| Dadasaheb Phalke |b|1870| Dorival Caymmi |b|1914| Alben W. Barkley |d|1956| Meredith L. Patterson |b|1977
| Kirsten Dunst |b|1982
Notes
- George Washington's reception at Trenton appears on April 21, so Washington himself should not appear in the same year
April 30: Reunification Day in Vietnam (1975)
Mary Pickford's handprints and footprints
- 1883 – New York governor Grover Cleveland signed legislation that led to the creation of Niagara Falls State Park, the United States' first state park.
- 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first two celebrities to imprint their handprints and footprints in cement (Pickford's pictured) at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.
- 1982 – Sixteen monks and a nun belonging to Ananda Marga in Calcutta, India, were dragged out of taxis by persons unknown in three different locations, beaten to death and then set on fire.
- 2004 – The New Yorker published an online article and photographs detailing accounts of torture and abuse by American military personnel of Iraqi prisoners held at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
- Rodrigo Anes de Sá Almeida e Meneses (d. 1733)
- Luigi Russolo (b. 1885)
- Roger L. Easton (b. 1921)