April 30th, 1939

Born on April 30th, 1939

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What happened on April 30th, 1939?

April 30th, 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.

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What else happened on April 30th?

April 30th, 2021

A crowd crush killed 45 people during the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Israel.

April 30th, 2009

A Dutch man drove his car at high speed into a parade in an attempt to kill the Dutch royal family.

April 30th, 2004

The New Yorker published an online article and photographs detailing accounts of torture and abuse by American military personnel of Iraqi prisoners held at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.

April 30th, 2000

Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun whose apparitions of Jesus inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, was canonized by Pope John Paul II.

April 30th, 1982

Sixteen monks and a nun of the Hindu organisation Ananda Marga were beaten to death and set on fire in Calcutta, India.

April 30th, 1975

American forces completed a helicopter evacuation (aircraft and evacuees pictured) of U.S. citizens, South Vietnamese civilians and others from Saigon, just before North Vietnamese troops captured the city, ending the Vietnam War.

April 30th, 1963

A refusal by the Bristol Omnibus Company and the Transport and General Workers' Union to permit the employment of black bus crews led to a bus boycott in Bristol, England.

April 30th, 1945

World War II: As Allied forces closed in on Berlin, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler committed suicide in the Führerbunker with Eva Braun one day after their marriage.

April 30th, 1943

Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph began Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming invasion of Sicily.

April 30th, 1927

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first two celebrities to make imprints of their hands and feet in cement (Pickford's pictured) at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.

April 30th, 1897

British physicist J. J. Thomson and his team announce the discovery of the electron.

April 30th, 1894

A crowd of workers, unemployed due to the Panic of 1893, concluded the first significant popular protest march on Washington D.C.

April 30th, 1883

New York governor Grover Cleveland signed legislation that led to the creation of Niagara Falls State Park, the United States' first state park.

April 30th, 1789

George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on April 30th

Born on April 30th, 1939

84

William H. Calvin

American academic

*April 30th, 1939, Kansas City

84

Martin Lodewijk

Dutch comic creator

*April 30th, 1939, Rotterdam

84

Bob Hendley

American baseball player

*April 30th, 1939, Macon

84

Tim Waterstone

British businessperson

*April 30th, 1939, Glasgow

84

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

American composer

*April 30th, 1939, Miami

84

Trautl Brandstaller

Austrian journalist and television presenter

*April 30th, 1939, Vienna †January 1st, 2024

84

Tony Godfrey

English footballer (born 1939)

*April 30th, 1939, Pangbourne

84

Pieter van Vollenhoven

Dutch professor and royal

*April 30th, 1939, Schiedam

84

Charles Samoy

Footballer

*April 30th, 1939, Escaudain

84

Tony Bratley

Association football player (born 1939)

*April 30th, 1939, Spalding

84

Kofoworola Bucknor

Nigerian politician and a former Deputy Governor of Lagos State

*April 30th, 1939, Lagos

84

Erik Preben Schmidt

Brazilian Olympic sailor

*April 30th, 1939, Niterói

84

Günther Bauch

German amateur wrestler

*April 30th, 1939, Halle (Saale)

79

Peter Schellenbaum

Swiss author (1939-2018)

*April 30th, 1939, Winterthur †May 25th, 2018, Lugano

78

Wilhelm Krömer

German politician

*April 30th, 1939, Minden †July 23rd, 2017

78

Jochen Baumert

German film actor and stage actor

*April 30th, 1939, Legnica †February 18th, 2018

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82

Fips Asmussen

German comedian (1938–2020)

*April 30th, 1938, Hamburg †August 9th, 2020, Carl-von-Basedow-Klinikum

37

Elena Prus

Badminton player

*April 30th, 1986, Lysychansk

82

Jeroen Brouwers

Dutch writer

*April 30th, 1940, Batavia †May 11th, 2022, Maastricht

73

Pedro Barceló

Spanish historian of classical antiquity

*April 30th, 1950, Vinaròs

74

António Guterres

Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2017

*April 30th, 1949, Lisbon

89

Phil Brown

American actor (1916–2006)

*April 30th, 1916, Cambridge †February 9th, 2006, Woodland Hills

48

Ha Tae-kwon

South Korean badminton player

*April 30th, 1975, Jeonju

96

Tamisuke Watanuki

Japanese politician

*April 30th, 1927, Toyama Prefecture

86

Ron Hall

American-Football-Spieler (1937)

*April 30th, 1937, Granite City

64

Stephen Harper

22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015

*April 30th, 1959, Toronto

77

Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

Current king of Sweden (1973–)

*April 30th, 1946, Haga Palace

83

Burt Young

American actor (1940–2023)

*April 30th, 1940, Queens †October 8th, 2023, Los Angeles

94

Cloris Leachman

American actress and comedian (1926–2021)

*April 30th, 1926, Des Moines †January 27th, 2021, Encinitas

85

Larry Niven

American writer

*April 30th, 1938, Los Angeles

41

Kirsten Dunst

American actress and model

*April 30th, 1982, Point Pleasant

45

Tadashi Ohtsuka

Badminton player

*April 30th, 1978, Nagasaki

22

Lil Tjay

American rapper and singer-songwriter

*April 30th, 2001, The Bronx

78

Klausjürgen Wussow

German actor (1929-2007)

*April 30th, 1929, Kamień Pomorski †June 19th, 2007, Rüdersdorf bei Berlin

77

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)

*April 30th, 1777, Brunswick †February 23rd, 1855, Göttingen

26

Yantoni Edy Saputra

Badminton player

*April 30th, 1997, Samarinda

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Born in 1939

85

Hans Kloft

German historian of classical antiquity

*April 10th, 1939, Düsseldorf

64

João César Monteiro

Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic

*February 2nd, 1939, Figueira da Foz †February 3rd, 2003, Lisbon

77

Dudley Storey

New Zealand rower

*November 27th, 1939, Wairoa †March 6th, 2017, Auckland

84

Thilo Ulbert

German christian archaeologist

*June 20th, 1939, Augsburg

83

Tina Turner

American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)

*November 26th, 1939, Brownsville †May 24th, 2023, Küsnacht

83

Hans-Christian Ströbele

German lawyer and politician (1939–2022)

*June 7th, 1939, Halle (Saale) †August 29th, 2022, Moabit

78

Oscar Fulloné

Argentine association football player and manager (1939-2017)

*April 4th, 1939, La Plata †May 22nd, 2017, Casablanca

84

Helga Piur

German actress and voice actress

*May 24th, 1939, Berlin

84

Yves Meyer

French mathematician

*July 19th, 1939, Paris

84

Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist,pépiniériste and inventor

*November 18th, 1939, Ottawa

56

Peter Aust

1939-1996 German actor

*March 17th, 1939, Bytom †January 26th, 1996, Bad Wildungen

70

Dixie Carter

American actress (1939–2010)

*May 25th, 1939, McLemoresville †April 10th, 2010, Houston

78

Irio De Paula

Brazilian composer

*May 10th, 1939, Rio de Janeiro †May 23rd, 2017, Rome

78

Peter Grünberg

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

*May 18th, 1939, Plzeň †April 7th, 2018, Jülich

59

Dusty Springfield

British singer (1939–1999)

*April 16th, 1939, London †March 2nd, 1999, Henley-on-Thames

74

Karen Black

American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter (1939-2013)

*July 1st, 1939, Park Ridge †August 8th, 2013, Santa Monica

80

Karel Gott

Czech singer and actor

*July 14th, 1939, Plzeň †October 1st, 2019, Prague

84

Brenda Vaccaro

American actress

*November 18th, 1939, Brooklyn

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

*August 22nd, 1939, Suffern †August 30th, 2019, Los Angeles

84

Jane Alexander

American actress (b. 1939)

*October 28th, 1939, Boston

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1939 is a normal year and no leap year.

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