It happened on this day, April 30
events:
1641 – Moroccan mujahid Muhammad bin Ahmed Al-Ayashi survives the battle against the Dalai and takes refuge among the Khut tribes. They betrayed him and violently killed him, then separated his head from his body and transported him to Salé.
1789 – George Washington assumes the presidency of the United States as its first president.
1812 – Louisiana joins the United States as the 18th state after Napoleon Bonaparte sells it to the United States.
1898 – Founding of a Trappist monastery in Hakodate, considered the first Catholic female monastery in Japan.
1854 – Construction of the first railway in Brazil.
1918 – Tokyo Women's University opens.
(1945–Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun commit suicide one day after their marriage at the end of World War II
1960 – Sales of the world's first transistor television, produced by Sony, begin.
1975 – North Vietnamese forces capture the city of Saigon, ending the Vietnam War.
1978 – Japanese traveler Uemura Naomi reaches the North Pole for the first time in history aboard a dog cart.
1980 – Queen Juliana of the Netherlands abdicates the throne in favor of her daughter, Princess Beatrix, known as Queen Beatrix.
1984 – Signing of the first economic cooperation agreement between the United States and China.
1992 – The European Organization for Nuclear Research announces that the WAP service is free and can be used by anyone.
2004 – Indonesia re-arrests Islamic preacher Abu Bakar Ba'asyir after 18 months in prison for his involvement in the Bali bombings.
2008 – Hammam Saeed is elected controller general of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, succeeding Salem Al-Falahat.
2013 – A bomb attack near the former Interior Ministry building in Marjeh Square in Damascus, killing 13 people and injuring 70 others.
2014 – Millions of Iraqis voted in Iraq's 2014 legislative elections, amid tight security measures.
2015 – NASA's Messenger space probe completes its 11-year journey broadcasting images of the planet Mercury and crashes into the planet's surface.
2018 – Sajid Javid (Pakistani origin) was appointed as British Home Secretary following the resignation of Amber Rudd due to the Windrush scandal.
2019 – Failed military coup attempt in Venezuela, pushed by Juan Guaido, President of the National Assembly of Venezuela, and openly supported by the United States of America, aimed at overthrowing President Nicolas Maduro.
✴️ Japanese Emperor Akihito abdicated the imperial throne, becoming the first Japanese emperor to do so in approximately two centuries, followed by his crown prince Naruhito, marking the beginning of the Reiwa period of Japanese history.
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Births:
1662 – Queen Mary II, Queen of England.
1777 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician.
1891 – James Edward Walsh, American priest and missionary.
1901 – Simon Kuznets, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 1971.
1902 – Theoder Schultz, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979.
1909 – Queen Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands.
1916 – Claude Shannon, American mathematician.
1938 – Yahya Al-Taher Abdullah, Egyptian writer.
1946 – King Carl XVI Gustav, King of Sweden.
1959 – Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada.
1965 – Adrian Pasdar, American actor.
1967 – Hakim Dakar, Algerian actor.
1979 – Ali Sukkar, Syrian actor.
1981 – John O'Shea, Irish footballer.
1982 – Kirsten Dunst, American actress. Drew Seeley, Canadian singer.
1984 – Sophie Turner, Australian model and actress.
1985 – Brandon Bass, American basketball player. Abdelhafid Douzi, Moroccan singer.
1986 – Dianna Agron, American singer, actress and dancer.
1992 – Ter Stegen, German footballer.
1994 – Wang Yafan, Chinese tennis player
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Death:
10:30 a.m. – Mahmoud Al-Ghaznawi, ruler of the Ghaznavid state.
1632 – Sigismund Vasa, king of Sweden.
1641 – Muhammad bin Ahmed Al-Ayashi, Moroccan mujahid.
1780 – Shaker bin Mustafa Al-Amri, Hanafi jurist, Sufi and Syro-Ottoman poet.
1883 – Edouard Manet, French painter.
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1989 – Sergio Leone, Italian director.
1998 – Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet. Hamad Abdel Mohsen Al-Mishari, former member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly.
2015 – Ben E. King, American singer, songwriter and producer.
2017 – Mbah Gotho, the oldest person in the world at the time of his death.
2020 – Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Liberation Day in Vietnam.
⬅️Walpurgis Night in Germany and Central Europe.
⬅️ Spring day in Scandinavia.
⬅️ Birthday of King Carl XVI Gustav in Sweden.
⬅️ Victoria Day in the Netherlands.
⬅️ Children's Day in Mexico.
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