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What happend on 30. April in History
In our data base we found 329 events happened on 30. April:
• 65: Lucan, Roman poet (b. 39) [category: Deaths]
• 311: The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends. [category: Events]
• 313: Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire. [category: Events]
• 535: Amalasuntha, queen of the Ostrogoths (b. c. 495) [category: Deaths]
• 1030: Mahmud of Ghazni, Indian ruler of the Ghaznavid Dynasty (b. 971) [category: Deaths]
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• 1063: Emperor Renzong of Song (b. 1010) [category: Deaths]
• 1131: Adjutor, Roman Catholic Saint [category: Deaths]
• 1245: Philip III of France (d. 1285) [category: Births]
• 1315: Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon. [category: Events]
• 1331: Gaston III, Count of Foix (d. 1391) [category: Births]
• 1341: John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1285) [category: Deaths]
• 1439: Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English military leader (b. 1382) [category: Deaths]
• 1492: Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. [category: Events]
• 1513: Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk (b. 1471 or 1472) [category: Deaths]
• 1513: Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII. [category: Events]
• 1524: Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473) [category: Deaths]
• 1544: Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England [category: Deaths]
• 1550: Tabinshwehti, King of Burma (b. 1516) [category: Deaths]
• 1553: Louise of Lorraine (d. 1601) [category: Births]
• 1557: Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile. [category: Events]
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• 1623: François de Laval, French bishop (d. 1708) [category: Births]
• 1632: Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly, Bavarian general (b. 1559) [category: Deaths]
• 1632: King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland and Sweden (b. 1566) [category: Deaths]
• 1642: Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (b. 1578) [category: Deaths]
• 1651: Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French educational reformer and Catholic saint (d. 1719) [category: Births]
• 1655: Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (b. 1617) [category: Deaths]
• 1660: Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (b. 1576) [category: Deaths]
• 1662: Mary II of England (d. 1694) [category: Births]
• 1662: Mary II of England (d. 1694) [category: Deaths]
• 1664: François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709) [category: Births]
• 1671: Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed. [category: Events]
• 1672: Marie de l'Incarnation, Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Ursulines of Quebec (b. 1599) [category: Deaths]
• 1696: Robert Plot, Englishnaturalist (b. 1640) [category: Deaths]
• 1710: Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (d. 1795) [category: Births]
• 1712: Philipp van Limborch, Dutch theologian (b. 1633) [category: Deaths]
• 1723: Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (d. 1806) [category: Births]
• 1736: Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (b. 1668) [category: Deaths]
• 1758: François d'Agincourt, French composer (b. 1684) [category: Deaths]
• 1770: David Thompson, Canadian explorer (d. 1857) [category: Births]
• 1777: Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician (d. 1855) [category: Births]
• 1789: 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. [category: Events]
• 1792: John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (b. 1718) [category: Deaths]
• 1795: Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (b. 1716) [category: Deaths]
• 1803: Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and statesman, 10th Prime Minister of Prussia (d. 1879) [category: Births]
• 1803: Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation. [category: Events]
• 1806: Onogawa Kisaburō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 5th Yokozuna (b. 1758) [category: Deaths]
• 1812: Kaspar Hauser, German mystery boy (d. 1833) [category: Births]
• 1812: The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana. [category: Events]
• 1829: Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (d. 1884) [category: Births]
• 1838: Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation. [category: Events]
• 1841: Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (b. 1758) [category: Deaths]
• 1847: Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general (b. 1771) [category: Deaths]
• 1850: George Gibb, British transport administrator (d. 1925) [category: Births]
• 1857: Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1857: Walter Simon, German philanthropist (d. 1920) [category: Births]
• 1863: Jean Danjou, French foreign legion captain (b. 1828) [category: Deaths]
• 1863: A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico. [category: Events]
• 1864: Jean, duc Decazes, French aristocrat and sportsman (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1864: Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet (d. 1913) [category: Births]
• 1865: Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1865: Robert FitzRoy, English admiral and meteorologist (b. 1805) [category: Deaths]
• 1869: Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter, and set designer (d. 1936) [category: Births]
• 1870: Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1870: Thomas Cooke, Canadian bishop (b. 1792) [category: Deaths]
• 1871: The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory. [category: Events]
• 1874: Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish clergyman (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1875: Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766) [category: Deaths]
• 1876: Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1877: Alice B. Toklas, American businesswoman (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1877: Léon Flameng, French cyclist (d. 1917) [category: Births]
• 1879: Emma Hale Smith Bidamon, American religious leader, wife of Joseph Smith (b.1804) [category: Deaths]
• 1880: Charles Exeter Devereux Crombie, Scottish cartoonist (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1883: Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist (d. 1923) [category: Births]
• 1883: Édouard Manet, French painter (b. 1832) [category: Deaths]
• 1885: 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. [category: Events]
• 1891: Joseph Leidy, American paleontologist (b. 1823) [category: Deaths]
• 1893: Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1894: Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893. [category: Events]
• 1895: Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat, and writer (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1896: Hans List, Austrian inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1896: Reverend Gary Davis, American singer and guitarist (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1897: Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1900: David Manners, Canadian-American actor (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1900: Casey Jones, American train engineer (b. 1863) [category: Deaths]
• 1900: Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express. [category: Events]
• 1900: Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor. [category: Events]
• 1901: Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1902: Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1903: Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b. 1831) [category: Deaths]
• 1904: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri. [category: Events]
• 1905: Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician [category: Births]
• 1907: Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city. [category: Events]
• 1908: Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1908: Eve Arden, American actress (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1908: Frank Robert Miller, Canadian airman and politician (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1909: F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1909: Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1910: Levi Celerio, Filipino composer and lyricist (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1910: Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu poet and lyricist (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1914: Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor, and painter (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1916: Claude Shannon, American engineer and mathematician (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1916: Robert Shaw, American conductor (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1920: Duncan Hamilton, English racing driver (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1920: Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. [category: Events]
• 1921: Tove Maës, Danish actress (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1923: Al Lewis, American actor (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1923: Francis Tucker, South African race car driver (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1923: Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1923: Percy Heath, American jazz musician (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1925: Corinne Calvet, French actress (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1925: Johnny Horton, American singer and musician (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1925: Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity. [category: Events]
• 1926: Cloris Leachman, American actress [category: Births]
• 1927: Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. [category: Events]
• 1927: The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States. [category: Events]
• 1928: Hugh Hood, Canadian author (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1930: Félix Guattari, French philosopher and theorist (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1933: Dickie Davies, English television presenter [category: Births]
• 1933: Willie Nelson, American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and activist [category: Births]
• 1934: Don McKenney, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1934: Jerry Lordan, English singer-songwriter and composer (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1936: Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (b. 1859) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: 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. [category: Events]
• 1938: Gary Collins, American actor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1938: Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak director [category: Births]
• 1938: Larry Niven, American author [category: Births]
• 1938: The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny). [category: Events]
• 1938: The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End. [category: Events]
• 1939: Frank Haller, American featherweight boxer (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1939: 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. [category: Events]
• 1939: The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opens. [category: Events]
• 1940: Burt Young, American actor [category: Births]
• 1941: Johnny Farina, American musician and composer (Santo & Johnny) [category: Births]
• 1941: Stavros Dimas, Greek politician [category: Births]
• 1941: Edgar Aabye, Danish tug of war competitor (b. 1865) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: Bobby Vee, American singer [category: Births]
• 1943: Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1943: Beatrice Webb, English economist (b. 1858) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: Otto Jespersen, Danish philologist (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer. [category: Events]
• 1944: Jill Clayburgh, American actress (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1945: Annie Dillard, American writer [category: Births]
• 1945: Michael J. Smith, American astronaut (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1945: Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1945: Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German politician and author, dictator of Nazi Germany (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Eva Braun, German photographer and office and lab assistant, wife of Adolf Hitler (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building. [category: Events]
• 1946: Bill Plympton, American animator [category: Births]
• 1946: Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden [category: Births]
• 1946: Don Schollander, American swimmer [category: Births]
• 1946: Lee Bollinger, American lawyer and educator [category: Births]
• 1947: Finn Kalvik, Norwegian singer and composer [category: Births]
• 1947: Leslie Grantham, English actor [category: Births]
• 1947: Manousos Manousakis, Greek director and producer [category: Births]
• 1947: Mats Odell, Swedish politician [category: Births]
• 1947: Tom Køhlert, Danish footballer [category: Births]
• 1947: In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time. [category: Events]
• 1948: Alexander Onassis, American Greek socialite, son of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1948: Perry King, American actor [category: Births]
• 1948: Pierre Pagé, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive [category: Births]
• 1948: In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established. [category: Events]
• 1949: António Guterres, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal [category: Births]
• 1949: Phil Garner, American baseball manager [category: Births]
• 1952: Jacques Audiard, French director [category: Births]
• 1953: Merrill Osmond, American actor and singer (The Osmonds) [category: Births]
• 1953: In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people. [category: Events]
• 1954: Frank-Michael Marczewski, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1954: Jane Campion, New Zealand director [category: Births]
• 1954: Thom Bray, American actor [category: Births]
• 1955: Dimitra Liani, Greek air hostess, widow of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou [category: Births]
• 1955: Nicolas Hulot, French journalist [category: Births]
• 1956: Lars von Trier, Danish director [category: Births]
• 1956: Alben W. Barkley, American politician, 35th Vice President of the United States (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming "I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty." [category: Events]
• 1957: Aviva Chomsky, American historian, daughter of Noam Chomsky [category: Births]
• 1958: Charles Berling, French actor, director and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1959: Paul Gross, Canadian actor, director, and writer [category: Births]
• 1959: Stephen Harper, Canadian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada [category: Births]
• 1959: W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist [category: Births]
• 1960: David Miscavige, American leader of the Church of Scientology [category: Births]
• 1960: Kerry Healey, American politician [category: Births]
• 1961: Isiah Thomas, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1961: K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned. [category: Events]
• 1963: Michael Waltrip, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1963: Stefan Kisyov, Bulgarian novelist [category: Births]
• 1963: 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. [category: Events]
• 1964: Barrington Levy, Jamaican singer and musician [category: Births]
• 1964: Ian Healy, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1964: Kent James, American singer-songwriter, actor, and actvist [category: Births]
• 1964: Tony Fernandes, Malaysian entrepreneur [category: Births]
• 1965: Adrian Pasdar, American actor [category: Births]
• 1966: Dave Meggett, American football player [category: Births]
• 1966: Jeff Brown, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1966: Richard Farina, American author and singer (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California. [category: Events]
• 1967: Steven Mackintosh, English actor [category: Births]
• 1967: The Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ's Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station. [category: Events]
• 1969: Paulo Jr., Brazilian musician (Sepultura) [category: Births]
• 1969: Warren Defever, American musician and composer (His Name Is Alive) [category: Births]
• 1970: Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Darren Emerson, English DJ (Underworld) [category: Births]
• 1971: John Boyne, Irish novelist [category: Births]
• 1972: JR Richards, American singer-songwriter, and musician (Dishwalla) [category: Births]
• 1972: Gia Scala, English-American actress (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Jeff Timmons, American singer and producer (98 Degrees) [category: Births]
• 1973: Kinna McInroe, American actress [category: Births]
• 1973: Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist, and translator (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and others have resigned. [category: Events]
• 1974: Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Elliott Sadler, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1975: Johnny Galecki, American actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Michael Chaturantabut, Thai-American actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Tomi Joutsen, Finnish metal vocalist (Amorphis) [category: Births]
• 1975: Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh. [category: Events]
• 1976: Amanda Palmer, American singer-songwriter, and musician (The Dresden Dolls and Evelyn Evelyn) [category: Births]
• 1977: Alexandra Holden, American actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Jeannie Haddaway, American politician [category: Births]
• 1977: Pell James, American actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Tom Fulp, American video game programmer [category: Births]
• 1979: Gerardo Torrado, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Jeroen Verhoeven, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Luis Scola, Argentinean basketball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Alfred Hitchcock, English film director and producer (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. [category: Events]
• 1981: Emma Pierson, English actress [category: Births]
• 1981: John O'Shea, Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Kunal Nayyar, Indian-English actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Nicole Kaczmarski, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Cleo Higgins, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Cleopatra) [category: Births]
• 1982: Drew Seeley, Canadian singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Kirsten Dunst, American actress [category: Births]
• 1982: Lloyd Banks, American rapper (G-Unit) [category: Births]
• 1982: Lester Bangs, American journalist and author (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Bijon Setu massacre [category: Events]
• 1983: Marina Tomić, Slovenian athlete [category: Births]
• 1983: Tatjana Hüfner, German luger [category: Births]
• 1983: Troy Williamson, American football player [category: Births]
• 1983: George Balanchine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Muddy Waters, American singer-songwriter, musician, and bandleader (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Lee Roache, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Shawn Daivari, American wrestler and manager [category: Births]
• 1985: Ashley Alexandra Dupré, American call girl, columnist, and singer [category: Births]
• 1985: Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model [category: Births]
• 1986: Dianna Agron, American actress, singer, and dancer [category: Births]
• 1987: Alipate Carlile, Australian rules footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Nikki Webster, Australian singer [category: Births]
• 1987: Rohit Sharma, Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1988: Andy Allen, Australian chef and winner of Masterchef Australia season 4 [category: Births]
• 1989: Jang Wooyoung, South Korean singer (2PM) [category: Births]
• 1989: Bangja, Crown Princess Euimin of Korea (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Sergio Leone, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Marc-André ter Stegen, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1993: Tommy Caton, English footballer (b. 1962) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free. [category: Events]
• 1993: Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany [category: Events]
• 1994: Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1960) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Maung Maung Kha, Myanma politician, 8th Prime Minister of Myanmar (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland. [category: Events]
• 1996: David Opatoshu, American actor (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Darrell Sweet, English musician (Nazareth) (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the number of members to 10. [category: Events]
• 2000: Poul Hartling, Danish diplomat and politician (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón [category: Births]
• 2002: Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, German founder of the Gründerzeit Museum (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Nitsa Tsaganea, Greek actress (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Mark Berger, American economist and educator (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. [category: Events]
• 2005: Phil Rasmussen, American lieutenant (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Ron Todd, English TGWU general secretary (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Lawrence Patrick, American bio-mechanics professor (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian novelist (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (b. 1983) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b. 1971) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Tom Poston, American actor (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Zola Taylor, American singer (The Platters) (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: John Cargher, Australian radio broadcaster (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters. [category: Events]
• 2009: Henk Nijdam, Dutch road bicycle rider (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Venetia Burney, English girl who named Pluto (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. [category: Events]
• 2009: Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. [category: Events]
• 2010: Gerry Ryan, Irish radio broadcaster (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Dorjee Khandu, Indian Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Achala Sachdev, Indian actress (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer (b. 1985) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Benzion Netanyahu, Israeli historian (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Billy Neighbors, American football player (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ernst Bolldén, Swedish wheelchair table tennis player (b. 1966) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Giannis Gravanis, Greek footballer (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Sicelo Shiceka, South African politician (b. 1966) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Tomás Borge, Nicaraguan politician and poet, co-founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
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• _: Aimo [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Amator, Peter and Louis [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: April 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Armed Forces Day (Georgia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Beltane Fire Festival (Calton Hill, Edinburgh) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Beltane begins at sunset in the Northern hemisphere (Celtic Druidic holiday) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Birthday of the King Carl XVI Gustav, one of the official flag days of Sweden. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Blessed Miles Gerard [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Camarón Day (French Foreign Legion) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Carodejnice (Czech Republic and Slovakia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Children's Day (Mexico) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Consumer Protection Day (Thailand) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest day on which Ascension Day can fall, while June 3 is the latest; celebrated 40 days after Easter (Christianity), and its related observances [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Eutropius of Saintes [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: International Jazz Day, organized by UNESCO, first observed in 2012, "is intended to raise awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people." [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Last day of classes at universities in India [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Marie Guyart (Anglican Church of Canada) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Maximus of Rome [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: May Eve, the eve of the first day of summer in the Northern hemisphere (see May 1): [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Persian Gulf Day (Iran) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Pomponius of Naples [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Queen's Day (Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Quirinus of Neuss [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Reunification Day (Vietnam) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Saint Pope Pius V [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Samhain begins at sunset in the Southern hemisphere (Celtic Druidic holiday) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Suitbert the Younger [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Teacher's Day (Paraguay) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Walpurgis Night (Central and Northern Europe) [category: Holidays and observances]