This Day In History – April 30th
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There have been thousands of these days in the past and more to come.
Each day of the week we look in the rearview mirror for a look back in time. Let’s go back in time to all the events, birthdays and more that have happened on April 30th in the past.
We’re here to help you remember everything you forgot so what could be better than a history of events that have happened on this day!
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Let’s go back in time to see everything that happened on this day in history
1789 – George Washington was sworn in in NY as the first elected President of the United States
1803 – The U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million
1812 – Louisiana became the 18th state
1859 – “A Tale Of Two Cities” is first published in weekly installments
1889 – 100 years after George Washington became the first President of the U.S., this day became the first U.S. national holiday
1900 – Hawaii became an official U.S. territory
1910 – Grandpa from the Munsters, also Hanging Judge Harrison in Used Cars, Al Lewis was born, he passed in 2006
1912 – Born Eunice Mary Quedens, actress, radio personality, comedienne, Eve Arden was born, she passed in 1990
1916 – One time Bond villain (From Russia With Love) and Jaws skipper (Quint), Robert Shaw was born, he passed in 1978
1926 – Multiple Emmy-award winning Actress Cloris Leachman was born.
She has also won an Academy award (The Last Picture Show)
1938 – Actor, television host Gary Collins Gary Collins was born, he also won a daytime Emmy, passed in 2012
1938 – Actor Burt Young (Back To School, Rocky and more) was born
1938 – “Happy Rabbit” was featured in the cartoon “Porky’s Hare Hunt.” In the near future, he’d become “Bugs Bunny”
1939 – Lou Gehrig played his last game with Yankees
1940 – Belle Martell became the first American female boxing referee in California
1941 – Charlie Parker records his first songs, “Hootie Blues” and “Swingmatism” with the Jay McShann group.
1941 – 50’s teen sensation Bobby Vee was born, passed in 2016
1944 – Actress Jill Clayburgh was born
1945 – After being married for one day, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide
1945 – “Arthur Godfrey Time” debuted on CBS radio in the mornings. It ran until 1972
1947 – Boulder Dam’s name is changed back to the Hoover Dam
1948 – Rockers MC5’s Wayne Kramer was born
1952 – The first toy to be advertised on network television airs, Mr. Potato Head I Made You”
1961 – The worm, Chicago native, NBA basketball player Isiah Thomas was born
1953 – Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle teamed up for the first time.
Swing Easy!, would be the first of many hit albums the two would work on together
1957 – Elvis Presley entered the studio to record “Jailhouse Rock”
1960 – Fats Domino was in the studio recording “Walking to New Orleans”
1964 – The FCC ruled that all TV receivers should be equipped to receive both VHF and UHF channels.
1967 – “Rhythm Is A Dancer” and “Power” rapper Turbo B of Snap was born
1969 – 90’s rockers The Todaies’ Clark Vogeler was born
1971 – 90’s R&B group Soul For Real’s Chris “Choc” Dalyrimplewas born
1972 – Modern rock band Dishwalla’s J.R. Richards was born
1973 – Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees was born
1973 – President Nixon told the nation that H.R. Halderman and John Erlichman were resigning along with other aides due to Watergate
1975 – Johnny Galecki was born (Big Bang Theory, Roseanne)
1982 – Actress Kirsten Dunst was born
1991 – A massive cyclone in Bangladesh killed an estimated 125,000 people
1993 – CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain.
1993 – While playing in Hamberg, Germany, tennis great Monica Seles was stabbed in the back by a fan of Steffi Graf
1998 – Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic were allowed to join NATO. They were formally admitted the following April at NATO’s 50th-anniversary summit.
2009 – Chrysler files for bankruptcy, again
2012 – Upon completion, the One World Trade Center became the tallest structure in New York, overtaking the Empire State Building.