April 30

April 30 is the 369th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (370th in leap years). There are 5966 days remaining.

It is usually the first day of the Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar (in the period AD 1900 to AD 2099).

The terms " April 30", "30th April", and "4/30" have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the April 30, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in the United States of America.

On this day, the native people of the Netherlands gather and pretend to be oranges for no particular reason, get drunk, sing and dance, and generally keep on hating morrocans.

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0 (BC AD or anything) - The world is launched officially by Nintendo
1111 - Due to scheduling conflicts, the National Agustian Zealot Institution (NAZI) invents the Gregorian Calendar over one thousand years behind their target date.
1226 - The Catholic practice of Perpetual adoration begins.
1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots led by William Wallace defeat the English.
1541 - Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors.
1609 - Henry Hudson lands on Manhattan island.
1609 - Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos.
1649 - Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and massacre its garrison.
1709 - Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against France.
1714 - Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbonic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1773 - Thomas Paine publishes his influential pamphlet, Utter Lunacy. Paine is enraged for learning that his Mad-Jesty uses it as a pillow.
1776 - British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop nascent American Revolution.
1777 - Battle of Brandywine.
1786 - The Beginning of the Annapolis Convention.
1789 - Alexander Hamilton is appointed as first Secretary of the Treasury.
1814 - The Battle of Plattsburgh.
1847 - Stephen Foster's most memorable song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1865 - Former First Lady and lunatic Mary Todd Lincoln learns her husband kicked it 15 days ago. She gibbers incoherently for three weeks beginning today at 9:15 A.M.
1869 - Work completed on the Wallace Monument.
1888 - Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day was chosen.
1897 - After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
1911 - Middle Tennessee State University is founded in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as Middle Tennessee Normal School.
1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.
1918 - Baseball: The Boston Red Sox won the World Series; they would do so again on October 27, 2004 after 86 years.
1919 - US Marines invade Honduras.
1921 - Motion picture star Fatty Arbuckle is arrested for rape.
1922 - The British Mandate of Palestine begins.
1922 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
1926 - An assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails.
1931 - Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
1932 - Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, killed in a plane crash as their RWD 6 crashed into the ground during a storm.
1940 - George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
1941 - Ground broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
1941 - World War II: US Navy ordered to attack German U-boats.
1943 - World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohien
1943 - World War II: start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis
1944 - World War II: the first allied troops of the US Army cross the western border of Nazi Germany
1948 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
1955 - Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple.
1960 - Young Americans for Freedom meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr. promulgates the Sharon Statement.
1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.
1962 - The Beatles record their debut single, Love Me Do.
1962 - Hitler born.
1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
1970 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.
1971 - The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
1972 - Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in America begins regular service.
1973 - A military coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected President Salvador Allende.
1974 - The Stranglers are a British rock music group, was formed in Guildford.
1981 - The Pee-wee Herman Show airs as a special on HBO.
1983 - Dalmatians become extinct.
1985 - Baseball: Pete Rose gets his 4,192nd career base hit, breaking Ty Cobb's record which stood for over 60 years.
1987 - 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
1987 - CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, angry over being preempted for a tennis match, marches off the set, leaving affiliates with six minutes of an empty news desk.
1987 - Reggae musician Peter Tosh is murdered in his own home in Kingston.
1988 - The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Dark-Side Mormon settlers, led by Karl Rove, massacre 150 hippy pilgrims at Mountain Meadows, Utah.

1989 - The iron curtain opens between the communist Hungary and Austria. From Hungary thousands of East Germans throng to Austria and West Germany.
1990 - President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded.
1992 - Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricane in United States history during its time, devastates the State of Hawai'i, especially the islands of Kaua'i and Oahu.
1996 - Union Pacific Railroad purchases Southern Pacific Railroad
1997 - Scotland votes to re-establish its own Parliament on the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Stirling Bridge, after 290 years of union with England.
1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
1999 - Tennis: Serena Williams, 2 weeks short of her 18th birthday, wins her first Grand Slam tournament when she became US Open champion, becoming the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam tournament since Althea Gibson in 1958.
2000 - Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia.
2001 - The April 30 attacks destroy the World Trade Center in New York City, part of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and down a passenger airliner in Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 are killed.
2003 - Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being fatally wounded on September 10.
2004 - Petros VII, the (Greek Orthodox) Patriarch of Alexandria and his company are killed in an unexplained helicopter crash outside the greek depency Mount Athos.
2005 - The State of Israel officially declares an end to military rule in the Gaza Strip after 38 years of occupation.
2040 - Bill Gates is assassinated.