WHAT HAPPENED ON 30. APRIL
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The Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ's Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station. (30. April 1967)

Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and others have resigned. (30. April 1973)

Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh. (30. April 1975)

Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. (30. April 1980)

Bijon Setu massacre (30. April 1982)

CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free. (30. April 1993)

Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany (30. April 1993)

Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy. (30. April 1994)

U.S. President Bill Clinton becomes the first President to visit Northern Ireland. (30. April 1995)

Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the number of members to 10. (30. April 1999)

U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. (30. April 2004)

Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia, are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, one of his sisters. (30. April 2008)

Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (30. April 2009)

Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix. (30. April 2009)

Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting: 12 people were killed (students and staff members) by an armed attacker. (30. April 2009)

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates and Willem-Alexander becomes King of the Netherlands. (30. April 2013)

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