History Events on April 30

On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

#Federal_Hall

Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.

#Willem-Alexander_of_the_Netherlands

K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.

#Soviet_submarine_K-19

Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.

#Albert_Einstein

Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.

#Petar_Zrinski

Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.

#Governor_of_New_York

World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9000 American and British airmen.

#Stalag_Luft_I

Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.

#Watergate_scandal

CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.

#CERN

Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.

#Henry_IV_of_France

An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.

#Assam_ferry_sinking

Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.

#Beatrix_of_the_Netherlands

Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.

#Canonization

World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.

#Führerbunker

J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.

#J._J._Thomson

A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.

#French_Foreign_Legion

Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.

#Eighty_Years'_War

The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.

#Territory_of_Orleans

Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.

#Mapuche

U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

#Iraq

Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.

#Edmund_de_la_Pole,_3rd_Duke_of_Suffolk

In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.

#Nevada

Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.

#Enguerrand_de_Marigny

The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opens.

#1939_New_York_World's_Fair

Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

#Chrysler

Juan de Oñate begins the conquest of Santa Fe de Nuevo México.

#Juan_de_Oñate

World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.

#World_War_II

Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.

#Nicaragua

The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London.

#Iranian_Embassy_siege

The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.

#Camp_Grant_massacre

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

#Douglas_Fairbanks

The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.

#Diocletianic_Persecution

The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.

#Commonwealth_of_the_Philippines

A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others.

#April_2014_Ürümqi_attack

Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy.

#Formula_One

Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.

#Battle_of_Tzirallum

Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.

#Louisiana_Purchase

Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.

#Sanford_B._Dole

Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.

#Yekaterinburg

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.

#Louisiana_Purchase_Exposition

Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.

#Christopher_Columbus

In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.

#Bogotá

Chindasuinth is proclaimed king by the Visigothic nobility and bishops.

#Chindasuinth

The Church of Satan is formed in The Black House, San Francisco.

#Church_of_Satan

Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.

The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta, India.

Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president D??ng V?n Minh.

The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.

Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.

Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.

The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit, an early version of Bugs Bunny.

The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity.