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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Map of South Vietnam -
George Washington (requires undeletion)
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George Washington -
Adolf Hitler -
Map of the United States showing the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase -
"Hoisting of American Colors over Louisiana" by Thure de Thulstrup
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Walpurgis Night in various European countries | refimprove |
| Reunification Day in Vietnam | unreferenced stub |
| National Persian Gulf Day in Iran; | refimprove |
| 313 – By defeating the armies of his rival Maximinus II, Roman emperor Licinius unified the eastern half of the empire under his rule. | needs context |
| 1671 – Croatian Ban Petar Zrinski 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$0.03 per acre. | needs copy editing |
| 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, inappropriate tone |
| 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. | outdated |
| 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) |
| 1986 – Actor Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. | need to verify date |
| 2004 – The New Yorker magazine posted an article and supporting pictures online, postdated May 10, detailing accounts of torture and abuse by American personnel of prisoners held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. | expand section |
Eligible
- 1636 – Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recaptured a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
- 1894 – A crowd of workers unemployed due to the Panic of 1893 conducted the first significant popular protest march on Washington, D.C.
- 1943 – Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph began Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming invasion of Sicily.
- 1948 – Twenty-one countries signed a charter in Bogotá, Colombia, establishing the Organization of American States.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2009 – A Dutch man drove his car at high speed into a parade in an attempt to kill the Dutch royal family.
- 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.
April 30: Children's Day in Mexico; Consumer Protection Day in Thailand
- 1006 – SN 1006 (remnant pictured), the brightest supernova in recorded history, first appeared in the constellation Lupus.
- 1557 – Arauco War: Spanish forces of the Governor Francisco de Villagra launched a dawn surprise attack against the Mapuche headed by their toqui Lautaro in what is now Chile.
- 1789 – George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City.
- 1945 – World War II: As Allied forces were closing in on Berlin, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide in the Führerbunker after being married for one day.
- 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.