This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
04/30/1309 Kazimierz III de Great, King of Poland (1333-70) 
04/30/1602 William Lilly, England, astrologer/author/almanac compiler 
04/30/1651 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theorist/saint 
04/30/1717 Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer 
04/30/1743 Robert Jasper van de Capellen, mister of Marsch/politician 
04/30/1767 Jean Henri Appelius, lawyer/minister of Finance 
04/30/1777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematicians 
04/30/1790 John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrialist 
04/30/1792 Johann Friedrich Schwencke, composer 
04/30/1797 Andreas V Michiels, Dutch military governor of West-Sumatra 
04/30/1797 Paul van Vlissingen, ship owner 
04/30/1805 William Kerley Strong, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1867

04/30/1823 George JD Campbell, Scottish/Brit Minister to Indies (1868-74/80-85)

04/30/1830 Davis Tillson, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 
04/30/1837 Alfred Gaul, composer 
04/30/1851 Indrië Einarsson, Iceland playwright (Nyj rsn¢ttin) 
04/30/1858 Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1893) 
04/30/1864 French Netscher, writer/journalist (Studies of nude model) 
04/30/1870 Franz Lehar, operetta composer (Naughty Marietta) 
04/30/1874 Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest/writer 
04/30/1882 Trijntje 'Nine' van de Schaaf, author (To the Invisible) 
04/30/1883 David John de Lloyd, composer 
04/30/1884 Albert Israel Elkus, composer 
04/30/1885 Luigi Russolo, composer 
04/30/1886 Frank Merrik, composer 
04/30/1888 John Crowe Ransom, US poet/critic (God Without Thunder) 
04/30/1889 Acario Cotapos, composer 
04/30/1889 Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer 
04/30/1893 Joachim von Ribbentrop, German SS fhrer/foreign minister 
04/30/1896 Gary Davis, Laurens SC, blues/folk guitarist (A Little More Faith) 
04/30/1899 Jannetje Fisherman-Roosendaal, author (regional novels) 
04/30/1899 Lucie Mannheim, actress (East Meets West, 39 Steps, High Command) 
04/30/1902 Andre-Francois Marescotti, composer 
04/30/1902 Rudolf Wittelsbach, composer 
04/30/1903 Gnther AR Raphael, German composer (Symphony Breve) 
04/30/1905 Henrich Schl„ppi, Switzerland, 4 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1924) 
04/30/1909 Juliana, Queen of Netherlands (1948-80) 
04/30/1910 Al Lewis, actor (Leo-Car 54, Grandpa-Munsters) 
04/30/1911 Hans Studer, composer 
04/30/1911 John-Baptist J Walgrave, [Henricus/Humanus], Flemish, theologist 
04/30/1912 Eve Arden, Mill Valley Calif, actress (Connie-Our Miss Brooks) 
04/30/1916 Dugo D Schenker, Suriname/Antillian playwright 
04/30/1916 Robert Shaw, Red Bluff Calif, chorale conductor (Robert Shaw Chorale

04/30/1917 Bea Wain, US actress/radio hostess 
04/30/1919 Valeer [Valerius V] van Kerkhove, Flemish writer/producer 
04/30/1920 Leen 't Hart, organist/composer 
04/30/1924 Sheldon Harnick, Broadway songwriter (Fiorello, Fiddler on the Roof)

04/30/1926 Corinne Calvet, France, actress (Apache Uprising) 
04/30/1926 Edmund Cooper, UK, sci-fi author (Seed of Light, All Fool's Day) 
04/30/1927 Lars Hall, Sweden, Pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1952) 
04/30/1929 Peter Carsten, Weissenberg Bavaria, actor (Mr Super Invisible) 
04/30/1930 Raoul de Keyser, [Dekeyser], Flemish painter 
04/30/1931 William L [Bill] Clay, (Rep-D-MO, 1969-  ) 
04/30/1932 Anton Larrauri, composer 
04/30/1933 Willie Nelson, Abbott Texas, country singer (On the Road Again) 
04/30/1936 Zohra Lampert, actress (Doctors' Hospital, Girl With Something Extra

04/30/1938 Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, Queen of Netherlands (1980-  ) 
04/30/1938 Gary Collins, Venice Calif, actor (6th Sense, Home Show) 
04/30/1938 Larry [Van Cott] Niven, US, sci-fi author (5 Hugo, Neutron Star) 
04/30/1939 Ellen Taafe Zwilich, Miami Florida, (1st woman composer Pulitzer 198

04/30/1939 Pieter van Vollenhoven, husband of Dutch Princess Margriet 
04/30/1940 Burt Young, actor (Convoy, Rocky) 
04/30/1941 Wilfried Jentzsh, composer 
04/30/1943 Bobby Vee, Fargo ND, (Devil or Angel, Night has a Thousand Eyes) 
04/30/1943 Robert L Livingston, (Rep-R-Louisiana, 1977-  ) 
04/30/1944 Jill Clayburgh, NY, actress (Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough) 
04/30/1945 Annie Dillard, American writer (An American Childhood) 
04/30/1945 Claude van de Berge, [Rony MF Pauwels], Flemish writer (Graph Theory

04/30/1945 Michael J Smith, Beaufort NC, Cmdr USN, astr (51L-Challenger disaste

04/30/1946 Donald Schollander, Charlotte NC, swimmer (Olympic-4 gold-64) 
04/30/1946 Karl XVI Gustav F H, King of Sweden (1973-  ) 
04/30/1947 Robert Scott, (Rep-D-Virginia) 
04/30/1948 Perry King, actor (Andy Warhol's 'Bad') 
04/30/1951 Panuta Rosani, Poland, discus (Olympic 1976) drug disqualified 
04/30/1952 Tom Pesek, creator of HAL 9000 program for the PC 
04/30/1953 Merrill Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)

04/30/1954 Gnther Tiersch, German DR, 8 man cox (Olympic-gold-1968) 
04/30/1956 Richard Farina, folk singer (Reflections in a Crystal Wind) 
04/30/1959 Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/English/Neth actor 
04/30/1961 Isiah Thomas, NBA forward (Detroit Piston; 1990 NBA playoff MVP) 
04/30/1966 David Meggett, NFL running back (NY Giants) 
04/30/1969 Joey Restivo, Brooklyn, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way, Lies) 
04/30/1971 Matt Martin, Hamden Conn, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994) 
04/30/1975 Johnny Galecki, actor (Danny-American Dreamer) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
04/30/ 313 Gaius G V Maximus, [Daia], Emperor of Rome, dies 
04/30/ 535 Amalaswintha, queen of Ostrogoten, murdered 
04/30/1030 Mohammud van Ghazna, Turkish mayor (G'widen)/Islamic ruler, dies 
04/30/1196 Boudewijn II, bishop of Utrecht (1178-96), dies 
04/30/1214 Huguccio/Hugo van Pisa, Italian bishop, dies 
04/30/1328 ... Eckhard, German theologist/mystic, dies 
04/30/1630 Ercole Porta, composer, dies at 44 
04/30/1632 Jean de Tilly, field marshal, dies 
04/30/1632 Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden, dies at 65 
04/30/1660 Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 84 
04/30/1671 P‚ter Zrinyi, Hungarian banished to Croatia, beheaded at 49 
04/30/1708 Simon de Vries, book seller/writer (Unequal), dies 
04/30/1743 Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian playwright/poet, dies 
04/30/1784 Franz K earl von Velbruck, German free mason, dies 
04/30/1785 Frederick Philipse 3, land owner (Bronx, Westch & Putnam), dies at 6

04/30/1792 Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer, dies at 36 
04/30/1793 Lorenzo Fago, composer, dies at 88 
04/30/1795 Jean-Jacques Barth‚lemy, French historian (Ancient Greece), dies 
04/30/1800 John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, dies at 46 
04/30/1828 Shaka, the great Zulu King, killed 
04/30/1829 George Washington Adams, son of John Q Adams, dies on City Is NYC 
04/30/1847 Charles L J, archduke of Austria/gov-gen (Austria-Netherland), dies 
04/30/1848 Friedrich Freiherr Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant, dies at 53 
04/30/1855 Henry Rowley Bishop, composer, dies at 68 
04/30/1859 Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Bagrova-vnuka), dies at 67 
04/30/1887 Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer, dies at 71 
04/30/1893 Edouard Manet, French painter (Olympia), dies at 61 
04/30/1893 Gyula Beliczay, composer, dies at 57 
04/30/1896 Antonio Cagnoni, composer, dies at 68 
04/30/1900 John Luther (Casey) Jones, dies in Cannonball Express train wreck 
04/30/1912 Frantisek Kmoch, composer, dies 
04/30/1922 David M Chumaceiro, Cura‡aos poet, dies 
04/30/1929 Friedrich Lienhard, German publisher (Trmer), dies at 63 
04/30/1933 Luis Sanchez Cerro, Pres of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza

04/30/1934 William Henry Welch, dies at 75 
04/30/1942 Catherine Murphy Urner, composer, dies at 51 
04/30/1943 Beatrice Potter Webb, British writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85

04/30/1943 Etty Hillesum, diary writer (Auschwitz), dies 
04/30/1945 Adolph Hitler, German dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56 
04/30/1945 Eva Braun, girlfriend/wife of Hitler, dies 
04/30/1952 Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer, dies 
04/30/1956 Alben W Barkley, (VP-D-1949-53), dies at 78 
04/30/1957 Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven), dies at 80 
04/30/1959 Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 81 
04/30/1963 Bryant Washburn, actor (Nabonga, Millionaire Kid), dies at 74 
04/30/1965 Helen Chandler, actress (Dracula, Salute, Last Flight), dies at 56 
04/30/1968 Frankie Lymon, rocker, dies of a heroin overdose 
04/30/1970 Hall Johnson, composer, dies at 82 
04/30/1970 Inger Stevens, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide at 

04/30/1970 Jacob Presser, historian/writer (Doom, Ondergang), dies 
04/30/1971 Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll), dies at 70 
04/30/1972 Gia Scala, actress (Garment Jungle, I Aim at the Stars), dies at 38 
04/30/1972 Ntare V, king of Burundi, murdered 
04/30/1973 Josie Sedgwick, actress (White Moth), dies at 75 
04/30/1974 Agnes Moorehead, actress (Endorra-Bewitched), dies at 67 
04/30/1976 Edvard Fliflet Braein, composer, dies at 51 
04/30/1977 Clive Martin Douglas, composer, dies at 73 
04/30/1980 Mary McCarty, actress (French Line), dies 
04/30/1982 Albert TLCA Bird, lecture artist, dies 
04/30/1982 Herman Tholen, cabaretier (Juveniles), dies 
04/30/1982 Taisen Deshimaru, founder of several Zen centers in France, dies at 

04/30/1983 George Balanchine, Russian composer, dies at 79 
04/30/1983 Jerry Hatsuo Fujikawa, actor (Uncle Matsu-Mr T & Tina), dies at 71 
04/30/1984 Arthur T 'Bomber' Harris, bombed nazi-Germany, dies 
04/30/1984 Muddy Waters, blues singer/guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man), dies at 

04/30/1985 George Pravada, actor (Felscher-Holocaust), dies at 66 
04/30/1987 Hugh Dempster, actor (Anna Karenina, Candles at Nine), dies 
04/30/1988 James McCracken, US tenor, dies at 61 
04/30/1989 Sergio Leone, Italian director (Good, Bad & Ugly), dies 
04/30/1991 George Sperti Sperti, inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91 
04/30/1991 Michael G Hagerty, actor (Overboard), dies 
04/30/1992 Dan van Driel, cartoonist (Nervous Cop), dies 
04/30/1993 Dave Waymer, NFLer, dies at 34 
04/30/1994 Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at 

04/30/1994 Richard Scarry, US kid book illustrator/writer, dies at 74 
04/30/1994 Roland Ratzenberger, Austria Formula 1-cyclist, dies in accident at 

 
 
Significant Events:  
 
04/30/ 311 Roman emperor Galerius delegates tolerance edict of Serdica 
04/30/1006 Brightest supernova in recorded history is observed 
04/30/1064 German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland 
04/30/1349 Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated 
04/30/1396 Crusaders & earl of Nevers depart from Dijon 
04/30/1492 Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet 
04/30/1492 Spain announces it will expels all Jews 
04/30/1562 1st French colonists in US: Jean Ribaut & Hugenot 
04/30/1563 Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI 
04/30/1598 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande) 
04/30/1616 English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen 
04/30/1661 Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa 
04/30/1722 Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant 
04/30/1725 Emperor Charles VI & King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna 
04/30/1774 Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee 
04/30/1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US 
04/30/1790 Colonial troops occupy Booni's bosnegerdorp Arouku Suriname 
04/30/1798 Dept of Navy established 
04/30/1803 US doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase ($15 million) 
04/30/1804 Hague's Theater opens 
04/30/1808 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri 
04/30/1812 (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state 
04/30/1838 Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation 
04/30/1857 San Jose State University forms 
04/30/1859 Paul Morphy returns from 10-mo chess tour of Europe, retires 
04/30/1860 Navaho indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby) 
04/30/1861 Federal Troops, under orders from Lincoln, evacuate Indian Territory

04/30/1862 Swift Run Gap, WV skirmishes 
04/30/1864 Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; Gen W R Scurry is killed 
04/30/1864 New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee 
04/30/1865 -5/1] Gen Shermans 'Haines's Bluff' at Snyder's Mill, Virginia 
04/30/1869 Hawaiian YMCA organized 
04/30/1871 Apaches in Arizona surrender to white & Mexican adventurers; 144 die

04/30/1888 Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi 
04/30/1889 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration 
04/30/1889 George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ opens 
04/30/1898 Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl 
04/30/1900 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match 
04/30/1900 USA annexes Hawaii 
04/30/1903 Highlanders (Yankees) 1st home opener; Chesbro beats Senators 6-2 
04/30/1905 1st offical soccer game between Belgium-Netherland (1-4) 
04/30/1911 Portugal approves woman suffrage 
04/30/1913 Neujmin & Belyavskij discover asteroids #752 Sulamitis & #753 Tiflis

04/30/1919 Phillies beat Bkln Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings 
04/30/1921 American Professional Football Assn reorganizes in Akron 
04/30/1921 Pope Benedict XV encyclical 'On Dante' 
04/30/1922 Chic White Sox Charles Robertson perfect games Detroit Tigers, 2-0 
04/30/1927 Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State 
04/30/1928 Cherkess Autonomous Region established in RSFSR (until 1957) 
04/30/1929 Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austrian 
04/30/1934 Austrian gets 'Austrian facist' constitution 
04/30/1935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1355 Magoeba & #1368 Numidia 
04/30/1935 World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul 
04/30/1937 General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth 
04/30/1939 NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of NY World's Fair 
04/30/1939 Tropicana ballet of Havana Cuba, forms 
04/30/1940 Bkln Dodger Tex Carleton no-hits Cin Reds, 3-0 
04/30/1941 Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia 
04/30/1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi 
04/30/1943 Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews established 
04/30/1943 Dutch strike against obligatory Labor camps 
04/30/1944 NY Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs 
04/30/1944 NY Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th ti

04/30/1945 'Arthur Godfrey Time' begins a 27 year run on CBS radio 
04/30/1945 Concentration camp Mnchen-Allag freed 
04/30/1945 Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolshevics 
04/30/1945 Red army storms German parliament 
04/30/1945 Russian Army frees Ravensbrck concentration camp 
04/30/1946 Cleve Indian Bob Feller's 2nd no-hitter beats NY Yankees, 1-0 
04/30/1947 Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover 
04/30/1948 Org of American States charter signed at Bogot , Colombia 
04/30/1955 Element 101, Mendelevium, announced 
04/30/1955 Perez Prado's 'Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White' goes #1 for 10 wee

04/30/1955 West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & more wages 
04/30/1961 1st shuttle flights between Wash DC, Boston & NYC begin (Eastern) 
04/30/1961 Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk USSR 
04/30/1961 Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize 
04/30/1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m 
04/30/1962 Willie Mays hits 4 HRs 
04/30/1967 Highest tower to the world finished, 537m (USSR) 
04/30/1967 Orioles' Stu Miller & Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Tiger

04/30/1968 3 Oriole pitchers walk 14 NY Yankees in a 9 inning game 
04/30/1969 Cin Red Jim Maloney 3rd no-hitter beats Houston Astros, 10-0 
04/30/1969 WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting 
04/30/1970 US troops invade Cambodia 
04/30/1971 Milwaukee Bucks sweep Balt Bullets for NBA championship 
04/30/1972 'Arthur Godfrey Time' ends a 27 year run on radio 
04/30/1973 Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al 
04/30/1973 Paul McCartney releases 'Red Rose Speedway' including 'My Love' 
04/30/1973 Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments 
04/30/1975 US civilian forces evacuate Vietnam; Saigon surrenders 
04/30/1976 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Jimmy Young in Landover Md 
04/30/1976 Wings release 'Silly Love Songs' 
04/30/1977 Billy Graham beats Bruno Sammartino in Baltimore, to become WWF cham

04/30/1980 Beatrix, Wilhelmina Armgard, crowned queen of Netherlands 
04/30/1980 Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London 
04/30/1982 Iran offensive in Khusistan 
04/30/1983 Bruins 3-Isles 7-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 2-1 lead 
04/30/1984 1700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are, Sweden 
04/30/1984 Strong winds cause a 30 min delay in Toronto Blue Jays game 
04/30/1985 Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa 
04/30/1986 Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles 
04/30/1987 NY Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game 
04/30/1988 NJ Devils beat Caps 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final 
04/30/1988 NY Knights 1st arena football game beats Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in LA)

04/30/1988 NY Yank Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets AL & ties ML R

04/30/1988 World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Australia 
04/30/1989 Critics Siskel & Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show 
04/30/1989 US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup 
04/30/1990 As Met pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Braves score 
04/30/1990 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from spac

04/30/1991 Cyclone kills 125,000 in Bangladesh 
04/30/1992 208th & final episode of Cosby Show on NBC-TV 
04/30/1994 Soccer superstar Pele marries psychologist Assiria Seixas Lemos 
  
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