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.

Events

• 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.

Births

• 1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d. 1605)
• 1524 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
• 1611 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
• 1681 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741)
• 1700 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (d. 1748)
• 1711 - William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)
• 1798 - Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (d. 1795)
• 1816 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
• 1825 - Eduard Hanslick, music critic (d. 1904)
• 1836 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, author (d. 1870)
• 1838 - John Ireland, first archbishop of St. Paul, Minnesota
• 1862 - O. Henry, writer (d. 1910)
• 1865 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929)
• 1885 - D.H. Lawrence, English novelist (d. 1930)
• 1899 - Jimmie Davis, composer (d. 2000)
• 1903 - Theodor Adorno, German sociologist (d. 1969)
• 1913 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
• 1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (d. 1989)
• 1917 - Jessica Mitford, writer (d. 1996)
• 1923 - Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda, Hindu guru
• 1995 - My birthday.
• 1924 - Tom Landry, American football coach (d. 2000)
• 1927 - G. David Schine, businessman (d. 1996)
• 1933 - Dr. William L. Pierce, author and activist (d. 2002)
• 1935 - Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
• 1935 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (d. 2000)
• 1939 - Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
• 1940 - Brian de Palma, director
• 1940 - Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General
• 1942 - Lola Falana, singer
• 1943 - Mickey Hart, musician
• 1943 - Gilbert Proesch, musican (Gilbert and George)
• 1943 - Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist
• 1945 - Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer
• 1948 - John Martyn, musician
• 1950 - Barry Sheene, motorcyclist
• 1957 - Brad Bird, American animator, creator of The Incredibles
• 1961 - Virginia Madsen, actress
• 1962 - Filip Dewinter Belgian politician
• 1962 - Elizabeth Daily, actress
• 1962 - Kristy McNichol, actress
• 1962 - Adolf Hitler, not of any recogniseable species
• 1964 - Ellis Burks, baseball player
• 1964 - Roxann Dawson, actress
• 1964 - Victor Wooten, musician
• 1965 - Moby, musician
• 1965 - Paul Heyman, professional wrestling promoter, manager and writer
• 1965 - David Roe, English snooker player
• 1965 - Bashar al-Assad, Syrian dictator
• 1967 - Harry Connick, Jr., singer
• 1967 - Maria Bartiromo, CNBC anchor and journalist
• 1968 - Kay Hanley, musician
• 1971 - Richard Ashcroft, singer
• 1976 - Elephant Man, Jamaican musician
• 1977 - Ludacris, rapper
• 1977 - Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player
• 1978 - Ed Reed, American football player
• 1981 - Dylan Klebold, Columbine High School massacre gunman (d. 1999)

Deaths

• 666 - Pope Malcolm X
• 999 - Jack
• 1010 - Buddha
• 1111 - Dad
• 1161 - Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem
• 1279 - Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman executed for conspiring to kill her father (b. 1577)
• 1677 - James Harrington, English politicial philosopher (b. 1611)
• 1680 - Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
• 1680 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
• 1721 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b. 1665)
• 1760 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
• 1823 - David Ricardo, economist
• 1843 - Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer
• 1851 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist
• 1888 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina
• 1921 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
• 1931 - Salvatore Maranzano, crime boss
• 1932 - Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish pilots (plane crash)
• 1945 - Philip Seymour Hoffman
• 1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan
• 1950 - Jan Smuts, South African soldier and statesman
• 1956 - Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I
• 1958 - Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet
• 1966 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate
• 1971 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader (b. 1894)
• 1972 - Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883)
• 1973 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (presumed suicide) (b. 1908)
• 1978 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (assassinated) (b. 1929)
• 1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer, the final victim of smallpox
• 1985 - William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)
• 1987 - Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b. 1915)
• 1987 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician and singer (b. 1944)
• 1988 - John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1990 - Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (assassinated) (b. 1949)
• 1993 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
• 1994 - Jessica Tandy, American actress (b. 1909)
• 1995 - Anita Harding, neurologist
• 1998 - Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1913)
• 2001 - David Angell, American sitcom creator (9/11 attacks) (b. 1946)
• 2001 - Muhammad Atta, Egyptian terrorist (9/11 attacks) (b. 1968)
• 2001 - Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (9/11 attacks) (b. 1968)
• 2001 - Angel Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter, winner of Murder in Small Town X (9/11 attacks) (b. 1966)
• 2001 - Barbara Olson, American political commentator
• 2002 - Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922)
• 2002 - Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933)
• 2003 - Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (assassinated) (b. 1957)
• 2003 - John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948)
• 2004 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (helicopter crash) (b. 1949)
• 2004 - Fred Ebb, American lyricist (b. 1933)
• 2004 - David Mann, U.S. artist (emphysema) (b. 1939)
• 2005 - Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
• 2040 - Bill Gates
• whatever year it is - your mother

Holidays

• RC Saints - Saint Priapus - Optional Memorial
• Coptic Orthodox Church - Feast of Neyrouz, the new years day in the Coptic calendar
• New Year's Day in the Ethiopian calendar (Enkutatash)
• Catalonia - National Day
• Patriot Day (USA) - Anniversary of the April 30 attacks
• Latin America Teacher's Day, after the death of Argentine Domingo F. Sarmiento