Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 30

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  Map of South Vietnam
• George Washington (requires undeletion)
  George Washington (requires undeletion)
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  George Washington
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  Adolf Hitler
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  Hoisting of American Colors over Louisiana by Thure de Thulstrup
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  Remnant of SN 1006
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  American Falls
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  William McIntosh
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  Coxey's Army
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  Faustina Kowalska
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  Mary Pickford's handprints and footprints

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Walpurgis Night in various European countries	refimprove section
Persian Gulf National Day in Iran;	multiple issues
Children's Day in Mexico;	refimprove section
1557 – Arauco War: Spanish forces under Governor Francisco de Villagra launched a surprise attack at dawn against the Mapuche, headed by their toqui Lautaro, in present-day Chile.	Date unreferenced, in conflict with date in other articles (April 29 according to Arauco War and Lautaro)
1598 – King [[Henry IV of France|Template:Nowrap of France]] issued the Edict of Nantes, granting freedom of religion to the Huguenots.	Date is not mentioned in target article.
1636 – Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recaptured a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.	unreferenced section
1671 – Petar Zrinski, the Ban of Croatia, was executed for treason for his role in the attempted Croatian-Hungarian rebellion of 1664–70.	refimprove section
1825 - Creek chief William McIntosh was executed by being stabbed in the heart for having signed a treaty ceding much of remaining Creek lands to the United States.	refimprove section
1900 – American railroad engineer Casey Jones became a folk hero when he was the only fatality in a train collision in Vaughan, Mississippi.	refimprove section, trivial pop culture references
1939 – At the New York World's Fair, NBC, the first major broadcast network in the United States, inaugurated its regularly scheduled television service with a broadcast of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's opening day ceremonial address.	refimprove section
1948 – Twenty-one countries signed a charter in Bogotá, Colombia, establishing the Organization of American States.	refimprove section
1980 – Iranian Arab separatists captured the Iranian Embassy in London, beginning a six-day siege.	better saved for May 5 (conclusion of the siege, which is much more famous)
1993 – Monica Seles, the number-one ranked women's tennis player at the time, was stabbed in the back during a match by a man obsessed with her rival Steffi Graf.	refimprove section
2009 – A gunman went on a shooting spree at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, a public university in Baku, killing 12 people before committing suicide.	too many quotes
* 313 – Civil wars of the Tetrarchy: An outnumbered army led by Roman emperor Licinius defeated his rival [[Maximinus II|Template:Nowrap]]'s forces at the Battle of Tzirallum.	Almost no content on the actual battle (and that which is there is uncited)
: Reunification Day in Vietnam (1975)	Too much uncited for a very short article
Charles S. Fairchild |b|1842|	Ref needed for date

Eligible

• 1006 – SN 1006 (remnant pictured), the brightest supernova in recorded history, first appeared in the constellation Lupus.
• 1789 – George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City.
• 1803 – The United States purchased France's claim to the Louisiana Territory for Template:Nowrap francs, or less than US$.03 per acre ($.07/ha).
• 1883 – New York governor Grover Cleveland signed legislation that led to the creation of Niagara Falls State Park, the United States' first state park.
• 1894 – A crowd of workers, unemployed due to the Panic of 1893, concluded the first significant popular protest march on Washington D.C.
• 1897 – British physicist J. J. Thomson and his team announce the discovery of the electron.
• 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opened near Alderson, West Virginia, as the first federal prison for women in the United States.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1982 – Sixteen monks and a nun of the Hindu organisation Ananda Marga were beaten to death and set on fire in Calcutta, India.
• 1994 - Riverdance was performed for the first time, as the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest.
• 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|Pope John Template:Nowrap]].
• 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.
• 2009 – A Dutch man drove his car at high speed into a parade in an attempt to kill the Dutch royal family.
• Born/died: | Jean-Baptiste de La Salle |b|1651| Robert Plot |d|1696| Rodrigo Anes de Sá Almeida e Meneses |d|1733| Joseph Dart |b|1799| Eugen Bleuler |b|1857| Dadasaheb Phalke |b|1870| Luigi Russolo |b|1885| Dorival Caymmi |b|1914| Roger L. Easton |b|1921| Alben W. Barkley |d|1956| Meredith L. Patterson |b|1977| John O'Shea |b|1981| Ana de Armas |b|1988| Goodnight Chicken |b|1992|

Notes

• George Washington's reception at Trenton appears on April 21, so Washington himself should not appear in the same year

April 30: Yom HaZikaron in Israel (2025) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians officially ended in the eastern Roman Empire.
• 1943 – Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine Template:HMS began Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming invasion of Sicily.
• 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.
• 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 and ended the Vietnam War.
• 2021 – A crowd crush killed 45 people during the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Israel.