April 30
1517 - Londoners began attacking foreign residents in rioting that carried over into the next day; no deaths were reported from what came to be known as "Evil May Day," but about a dozen rioters, maybe more, ended up being executed.
1789 - George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States.
1803 - France sold Louisiana and adjoining lands to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase for approximately $15 million.
1812 - Louisiana became the 18th state.
1859 - "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens was first published in serial form in a literary magazine.
1900 - Hawaii was organized as a U.S. territory.
1939 - U.S. commercial television made its official debut at the New York World's Fair with a signal transmitted from the Empire State Building.
1945 - As Soviet troops approached his Berlin bunker, Nazi leader Adolf HItler and his newly married bride Eva Braun took their own lives.
1948 - The Organization of American States held its first meeting in Bogota, Colombia.
1958 - The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) was founded in Washington, D.C.
1968 - New York City police forcibly removed student demonstrators occupying five buildings at Columbia University.
1970 - President Richard Nixon announced the United States was sending troops into Cambodia, an action that sparked widespread protest.
1973 - President Richard Nixon announced the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean, who was actually fired.
1975 - The Vietnam War ended with South Vietnam's surrender to North Vietnam.
1983 - Blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters died in Westmont, Illinois at age 68.
1991 - More than 131,000 were killed and as many as 9 million left homeless after a powerful cyclone struck Bangladesh.
2003 - Libya accepted responsibility for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
1997 - ABC aired the "coming out" episode of the sitcom "Ellen", in which the title character, played by Ellen DeGeneres, admitted she is a lesbian.
2001 - Chandra Levy, a federal government intern, went missing in Washington, D.C. (Her remains were found more than a year later in a city park.)
2003 - Mahmoud Abbas took office as the first Palestinian prime minister.
2004 - Arabs expressed outrage at graphic photographs of naked Iraqi prisoners being humiliated by U.S. military police; President George W. Bush condemned the mistreatment of prisoners, saying “that’s not the way we do things in America.”
2005 - Missing Georgia woman Jennifer Wilbanks, the so-called "runaway bride," turned up in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2009 - Chrysler filed for bankruptcy protection.
2009 - British forces exited Iraq.
2010 - Heavy winds and high tides complicated efforts to hold back oil from a blown-out BP-operated rig that threatened to coat bird and marine life in the Gulf of Mexico; President Barack Obama halted any new offshore projects pending safeguards to prevent more explosions like the one that unleashed the spill.
2019 - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó took to the streets to call for a military uprising against Nicolas Maduro; street battles erupted in the Venezuelan capital. The Trump administration quickly declared enthusiastic support for the Venezuelan opposition effort.
2020 - The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits soared past 30 million in the six weeks since the virus outbreak took hold.
Birthdays
30 - Travis Scott (rapper)
32 - Brandon Lancaster (country singer)
33 - Ana de Armas (actress)
35 - Dianna Agron (actress)
36 - Gal Gadot (actress)
39 - Kirsten Dunst (actress)
39 - Lloyd Banks (rapper)
39 - Drew Seeley (actor)
40 - Kunal Nayyar (actor)
41 - Sam Heughan (actor)
46 - Johnny Galecki (actor)
48 - Jeff Timmons (singer)
48 - Akon (singer)
49 - Lisa Dean Ryan (actress)
50 - Carolyn Dawn Johnson (country singer)
54 - J.R. Richards (singer)
56 - Adrian Pasdar (actor)
60 - Isaiah Thomas (basketball player)
62 - Paul Gross (actor)
65 - Lars von Trier (director)
68 - Merrill Osmond (singer)
73 - Wayne Kramer (singer)
73 - Perry King (actor)
81 - Burt Young (actor)
88 - Willie Nelson (singer)
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Today in Sports History - April 30
1922 - Charlie Robertson (Chicago White Sox) threw a perfect game against the Detroit Tigers.
1939 - Lou Gehrig played in his final game with the New York Yankees, also ending his streak of 2,130 consecutive games played.
1961 - Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hit four home runs in a game against the Milwaukee Braves.
1971 - The Milwaukee Bucks sweep the Baltimore Bullets to win the NBA championship.
1976 - Muhammad Ali defeats Jimmy Young in 15 rounds for the heavyweight championship.
1985 - The Buffalo Bills select Virginia Tech defensive end Bruce Smith with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1985 - The following Huskers were selected in the 1985 NFL Draft: OG - Mark Traynowicz (2nd round, Buffalo Bills); OT - Mark Behning (2nd round, Pittsburgh Steelers); DB - Bret Clark (7th round, Los Angeles Raiders); LB - Scott Strasburger (9th round, Dallas Cowboys); RB - Jeff Smith (10th round, Kansas City Chiefs); and WR - Shane Swanson (12th round, Cleveland Browns).
1986 - Bill Elliott sets an all-time NASCAR qualifying record, winning the pole for the Winston 500 at Talladega Superspeedway at 212.809 mph.
1987 - Mike Bossy plays in his final game with the New York Islanders.
1993 - Top-ranked women's tennis player Monica Seles was stabbed in the back by a man who ran onto the court during a match in Hamburg, Germany.
1996 - The New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles played the longest nine-inning game in major league baseball history. The game took four hours and 21 minutes.
1997 - Riddick Bowe announced his retirement from boxing to pursue a carer with the HBO cable network. His career record as a heavyweight was 40-1 with 32 knockouts.
1997 - The Atlanta Braves set a major league record with their 19th win in the month of April.
2002 - Alex Rodriguez of the Texas Rangers became the second-youngest player in major league history to hit 250 career home runs at age 26 years, 277 days old.
2015 - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers select Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
2015 - The following Huskers were selected in the 2015 NFL Draft: RB - Ameer Abdullah (2nd round, Detroit Lions); LB - Randy Gregory (2nd round, Dallas Cowboys); and WR - Kenny Bell (5th round, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
1517 - Londoners began attacking foreign residents in rioting that carried over into the next day; no deaths were reported from what came to be known as "Evil May Day," but about a dozen rioters, maybe more, ended up being executed.
1789 - George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States.
1803 - France sold Louisiana and adjoining lands to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase for approximately $15 million.
1812 - Louisiana became the 18th state.
1859 - "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens was first published in serial form in a literary magazine.
1900 - Hawaii was organized as a U.S. territory.
1939 - U.S. commercial television made its official debut at the New York World's Fair with a signal transmitted from the Empire State Building.
1945 - As Soviet troops approached his Berlin bunker, Nazi leader Adolf HItler and his newly married bride Eva Braun took their own lives.
1948 - The Organization of American States held its first meeting in Bogota, Colombia.
1958 - The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) was founded in Washington, D.C.
1968 - New York City police forcibly removed student demonstrators occupying five buildings at Columbia University.
1970 - President Richard Nixon announced the United States was sending troops into Cambodia, an action that sparked widespread protest.
1973 - President Richard Nixon announced the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean, who was actually fired.
1975 - The Vietnam War ended with South Vietnam's surrender to North Vietnam.
1983 - Blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters died in Westmont, Illinois at age 68.
1991 - More than 131,000 were killed and as many as 9 million left homeless after a powerful cyclone struck Bangladesh.
2003 - Libya accepted responsibility for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
1997 - ABC aired the "coming out" episode of the sitcom "Ellen", in which the title character, played by Ellen DeGeneres, admitted she is a lesbian.
2001 - Chandra Levy, a federal government intern, went missing in Washington, D.C. (Her remains were found more than a year later in a city park.)
2003 - Mahmoud Abbas took office as the first Palestinian prime minister.
2004 - Arabs expressed outrage at graphic photographs of naked Iraqi prisoners being humiliated by U.S. military police; President George W. Bush condemned the mistreatment of prisoners, saying “that’s not the way we do things in America.”
2005 - Missing Georgia woman Jennifer Wilbanks, the so-called "runaway bride," turned up in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2009 - Chrysler filed for bankruptcy protection.
2009 - British forces exited Iraq.
2010 - Heavy winds and high tides complicated efforts to hold back oil from a blown-out BP-operated rig that threatened to coat bird and marine life in the Gulf of Mexico; President Barack Obama halted any new offshore projects pending safeguards to prevent more explosions like the one that unleashed the spill.
2019 - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó took to the streets to call for a military uprising against Nicolas Maduro; street battles erupted in the Venezuelan capital. The Trump administration quickly declared enthusiastic support for the Venezuelan opposition effort.
2020 - The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits soared past 30 million in the six weeks since the virus outbreak took hold.
Birthdays
30 - Travis Scott (rapper)
32 - Brandon Lancaster (country singer)
33 - Ana de Armas (actress)
35 - Dianna Agron (actress)
36 - Gal Gadot (actress)
39 - Kirsten Dunst (actress)
39 - Lloyd Banks (rapper)
39 - Drew Seeley (actor)
40 - Kunal Nayyar (actor)
41 - Sam Heughan (actor)
46 - Johnny Galecki (actor)
48 - Jeff Timmons (singer)
48 - Akon (singer)
49 - Lisa Dean Ryan (actress)
50 - Carolyn Dawn Johnson (country singer)
54 - J.R. Richards (singer)
56 - Adrian Pasdar (actor)
60 - Isaiah Thomas (basketball player)
62 - Paul Gross (actor)
65 - Lars von Trier (director)
68 - Merrill Osmond (singer)
73 - Wayne Kramer (singer)
73 - Perry King (actor)
81 - Burt Young (actor)
88 - Willie Nelson (singer)
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Today in Sports History - April 30
1922 - Charlie Robertson (Chicago White Sox) threw a perfect game against the Detroit Tigers.
1939 - Lou Gehrig played in his final game with the New York Yankees, also ending his streak of 2,130 consecutive games played.
1961 - Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hit four home runs in a game against the Milwaukee Braves.
1971 - The Milwaukee Bucks sweep the Baltimore Bullets to win the NBA championship.
1976 - Muhammad Ali defeats Jimmy Young in 15 rounds for the heavyweight championship.
1985 - The Buffalo Bills select Virginia Tech defensive end Bruce Smith with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1985 - The following Huskers were selected in the 1985 NFL Draft: OG - Mark Traynowicz (2nd round, Buffalo Bills); OT - Mark Behning (2nd round, Pittsburgh Steelers); DB - Bret Clark (7th round, Los Angeles Raiders); LB - Scott Strasburger (9th round, Dallas Cowboys); RB - Jeff Smith (10th round, Kansas City Chiefs); and WR - Shane Swanson (12th round, Cleveland Browns).
1986 - Bill Elliott sets an all-time NASCAR qualifying record, winning the pole for the Winston 500 at Talladega Superspeedway at 212.809 mph.
1987 - Mike Bossy plays in his final game with the New York Islanders.
1993 - Top-ranked women's tennis player Monica Seles was stabbed in the back by a man who ran onto the court during a match in Hamburg, Germany.
1996 - The New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles played the longest nine-inning game in major league baseball history. The game took four hours and 21 minutes.
1997 - Riddick Bowe announced his retirement from boxing to pursue a carer with the HBO cable network. His career record as a heavyweight was 40-1 with 32 knockouts.
1997 - The Atlanta Braves set a major league record with their 19th win in the month of April.
2002 - Alex Rodriguez of the Texas Rangers became the second-youngest player in major league history to hit 250 career home runs at age 26 years, 277 days old.
2015 - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers select Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
2015 - The following Huskers were selected in the 2015 NFL Draft: RB - Ameer Abdullah (2nd round, Detroit Lions); LB - Randy Gregory (2nd round, Dallas Cowboys); and WR - Kenny Bell (5th round, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
