April 30th, 2015

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What happened on April 30th?

April 30th, 1803

The United States purchased France's claim to the Louisiana Territory for 80 million francs, or less than US$.03 per acre ($.07/ha).

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 of U.S. citizens, South Vietnamese civilians and others from Saigon, just before North Vietnamese troops captured the city and ended 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 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 (pictured) took the oath of office as the first president of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City.

Public holidays on April 30th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, May Eve, the eve of the first day of summer in the Northern hemisphere) which are celebrated on April 30th.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 2015 is a normal year and no leap year.

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