WHAT HAPPENED ON 30. APRIL
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The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri. (30. April 1904)
Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city. (30. April 1907)
Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. (30. April 1920)
Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus $50 million for charity. (30. April 1925)
The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States. (30. April 1927)
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. (30. April 1927)
The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative. (30. April 1937)
The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny). (30. April 1938)
The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End. (30. April 1938)
The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opens. (30. April 1939)
NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address. (30. April 1939)
World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer. (30. April 1943)
World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building. (30. April 1945)
In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed the Hoover Dam a second time. (30. April 1947)
In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established. (30. April 1948)
In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people. (30. April 1953)
Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming "I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty." (30. April 1956)
K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned. (30. April 1961)
The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom. (30. April 1963)
The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California. (30. April 1966)