Today in History - Famous Events

🏰 On this day in History - April 30, 2026

1902 Debussy's opera "Pell‚as et M‚lissande," premieres in Paris

1996 Dutch/Itallian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral

1922 Chic White Sox Charles Robertson perfect games Detroit Tigers, 2-0

1990 Seattle's Brian Holman's perfect game broken up with 2 outs in 9th

1945 Concentration camp MЃnchen-Allag freed

1995 "Blood Brothers" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 839 perfs

1987 Lou Lamoriello is named NJ Devils President

1661 Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa

1940 Bkln Dodger Tex Carleton no-hits Cin Reds, 3-0

1946 Cleve Indian Bob Feller's 2nd no-hitter beats NY Yankees, 1-0

1944 NY Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs

1979 Mary Therese Friel, (New York), crowned 28th Miss USA

1905 1st official soccer game between Belgium-Netherlands (1-4)

1985 Dale Murphy drives in record tying 28th & 29th runs of April

1981 16th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell & George Jones

1990 As Met pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Braves score

1928 Cherkess Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1957)

1790 Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village

1997 Atlanta Braves win record 19 games in April

1722 Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant

1977 "Party with Comden & Green" closes at Morosco NYC after 92 perfs

1961 Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize

1916 Chic Cubs play 1st game at Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) beat Reds

1945 Russian Army frees RavensbrЃck concentration camp

1973 Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments

1492 Spain announces it will expels all Jews

1977 Billy Graham beats Bruno Sammartino in Baltimore, to become WWF champ

1967 Orioles' Stu Miller & Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Tigers

1961 SF Giant Willie Mays hits 4 HRs in a game

1927 Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State

1349 Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated

1889 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration

1798 Dept of Navy forms

1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1st home game, (Hilltop Park-168th St & Broadway, Manhattan), they beat Wash Senators, 6-2

1939 NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of NY World's Fair

1990 US hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians

1396 Crusaders & earl of Nevers depart from Dijon

1982 Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season

1978 Janet Coles wins LPGA Natural Light Lady Tara Golf Classic

1986 Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games

1857 San Jose State University forms

1995 "Rose Tattoo" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 80 perfs

1997 Pres Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College

1900 USA annexes Hawaii

1970 Cubs Billy Williams is 1st NLer to play in 1,000 consecutive games

1955 West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & more wages

1996 "Buried Child," opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 77 performances

1995 Val Skinner wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship

1977 Ron Cey sets record of 29 RBIs in April

1808 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri

1861 President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory

1852 Anton Rubinsteins opera "Dmitri Donskoi," premieres in St Petersburg

1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Open

1989 US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup

1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m

1812 (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state

1947 Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover

1945 Red Army occupies Demmin

1910 Cleve Indian Addie Joss wins 2nd no-hitter beating White Sox

1492 Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet

1994 Soccer great Pele (53) weds psychologist Assiria Seixas Lemos (36)

1948 Org of American States charter signed at Bogot , Colombia

1864 New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee

1954 Darius Milhauds 4th Concert for piano/orch premieres in Haifa

1919 Phillies beat Bkln Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings

1989 Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic

1616 English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen

1980 Beatrix, Wilhelmina Armgard, crowned queen of Netherlands

1803 US doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase ($15 million)

1982 Iranian offensive in Khusistan

1986 Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles

1967 Highest tower to the world finished, 537m (USSR)

1984 1700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are Sweden

1952 Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television

1997 Tajik Prest Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt

1887 1st game played at Broad & Huntingdon St Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Phillies beat Giants 19-10

1982 Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as pres of El Salvador

1950 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA 144-hole Golf Weathervane

1948 "Inside USA" opens at Century Theater NYC for 339 performances

1973 Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al

1898 Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl

1748 Ceasefire at Aken ends

1859 Paul Morphy returns from 10-mo chess tour of Europe, retires

1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

1939 Tropicana ballet of Havana Cuba, forms

1962 Willie Mays hits 4 HRs

1945 US troops attack the Elbe

1888 Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi

1527 England & France sign treaty of Westminster

1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Stockton Golf Open

1865 -5/1] Gen Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia

1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Grand Rapids MI on WKLQ 94.5 FM

1838 Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation

1980 Ronald Harwood's "Dresser," premieres in London

1943 Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry

1981 "Can-Can" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances

1988 World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Australia

1955 Element 101, Mendelevium, announced

1997 "London Assurance," opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 72 performances

1918 Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen

1943 Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms

1969 Cin Red Jim Maloney 3rd no-hitter beats Houston Astros, 10-0

1937 General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth

1935 World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul

1968 3 Oriole pitchers walk 14 NY Yankees in a 9 inning game

1980 "Barnum" opens at St James Theater NYC for 854 performances

1943 No‰l Coward's "This Happy Breed," premieres in London

1871 Apaches in Arizona surrender to white & Mexican adventurers; 144 die

1748 French troops occupy Maastricht

1967 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational

1921 Pope Benedict XV encyclical "On Dante"

0311 Emperor Galerius legal recognizes Christians in the Roman Empire

1997 Tino Martinez hits record 34 RBIs in April

1774 Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee

1772 John Clais patents 1st scale

1955 Perez Prado's "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White" goes #1 for 10 weeks

1953 Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League

1064 German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland

1945 "Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio

1961 1st shuttle flights between Wash DC, Boston & NYC begin (Eastern)

1984 Strong winds cause a 30 min delay in Toronto Blue Jays game

1921 American Professional Football Assn reorganizes in Akron

1989 Critics Siskel & Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show

1971 25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee beat Balt Bullets in 4 games

1991 In Bangladesh a cyclone killed over 131,000 & left 9 million homeless

1958 Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits

1862 Swift Run Gap, WV skirmishes

1403 Edward the Confessor crowned king of England

1506 Philip of Bourgondy & England sign trade agreement

1967 NY Met pitcher Tom Seaver wins hist 1st game

1945 Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolsheviks

1763 London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower

1972 "Arthur Godfrey Time" ends a 27 year run on radio

1938 Bradman scores 258 Aust v Worcs, 293 mins, 33 fours 1 five

1864 Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; Gen W R Scurry is killed

1992 208th & final episode of Cosby Show on NBC-TV

1804 Hague's Theater opens

1988 Baltimore Orioles win record 14th straight from beginning of season

1944 NY Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th time

1980 Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, abdicates

1975 Last US helicopter leaves US embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders

1995 After 120 years the last 15 A & S dept stores close

1983 Bruins 3-Isles 7-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 2-1 lead

1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US

1929 Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austria

1976 Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1934 Austrian gets "Austrian facist" constitution

1725 Emperor Charles VI & King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna

1860 Navaho indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby)

1997 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay

1978 "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace NYC after 101 perfs

1970 US troops invade Cambodia

1598 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)

1985 Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa

1989 Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo of Madagascar

1990 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space

1885 Boston Pops Orchestra forms

1995 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 24 perfs

1911 Portugal approves woman suffrage

1955 Imperial Bank of India nationalized

1973 Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love"

1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut

1980 Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London

1988 NJ Devils beat Caps 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final

1985 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1997 Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes

1650 French rebel Henri de la Tour Turenne signs treaty with Spain

1945 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin

1869 Hawaiian YMCA organized

1976 Royal Canadian Mint opens a branch in Winnipeg Manitoba

1988 Largest banana split ever, at 455 miles long, was made in Penns

1900 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match

1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship

1988 NY Yank Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets AL & ties ML Rec

1961 Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk USSR

1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi

1562 1st French colonists in US: Jean Ribaut & Hugenots at Parris Is NC

1988 NY Knights 1st arena football game beats Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in LA)

1941 Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia

1889 George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ opens

1695 William Congreve's "Love for Love," premieres in London

1976 Wings release "Silly Love Songs"

1987 NY Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game

1563 Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI

1969 WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting

1974 Pres Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings

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