The April 30th is the 120e Jour of the Année (121e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

April 29th - April 30th - May 1st

Events

4th century

  • 311 : By the edict of Sardique, the Roman Emperor Galère authorizes the Christian worship.

6th century

7th century

  • 642 : Chindaswinthe becomes the king of the Visigoths of Spain.

11th century

16th century

  • 1524 : The French Army is driven out of Lombardy: the knight Bayard is mortally wounded during the engagements.

  • 1573 : Beauvais: The tower of the cathedral, which was completed in 1569, crumbles the day of the Rise, after the clergy and the parishioners, who had formed a procession, had left the building.

18th century

  • 1725 : Austria: Freeing itself from the French supervision, Philippe V sign a treaty of alliance with Charles VI: the peace of Vienna . The two sovereigns give up their respective ambitions. By recognizing the Pragmatic Sanction, the Spain obtains to preserve its positions in Italy.

  • 1789 :
    • Ceremony of nomination with New York of the first president of the United States, George Washington.
    • Riot with Marseilles, where crowd seizes three forts and kills one their commanders, the Chevalier of Beausset, major of the Fort St-Jean.

19th century

  • 1803 : Napoleon Bonaparte sells the Louisiana with the the United States for 80 franc million.

  • 1812 : The Louisiana is allowed within the Union becoming thus the 18ème American State.

  • 1824 : The Crete is occupied by the Égyptiens.

  • 1827 : Algiers: The , French Consul Deval, is insult by the Dey which it soufflette with its range.

  • 1834 : Paris: The publication by Lamennais of the “ Paroles of a believer ” causes impassioned reactions: its admirors go until reading high voice, in the streets of Paris, its burning stanzas: “ Young soldier, where do you go? I will fight against the iniquitous men, for those which they transfer and press with the feet, against the Masters for the slaves, the tyrants for freedom; how your weapons are blessed, young soldier! ”. The pope condemns this book “ not very considerable by his volume, but immense by his perversity ”. Thus the small Breton abbot, who, it there has ten years, had the appearance of a defender of papacy and the most intransigent Catholicism, solved to turn to the republican ideas and to break with a Church insensitive with the misery of the workmen and the crushing of freedom.

  • 1881 : The French fleet seizes Bizerte and of the French forces, started from Algérie, penetrates in Tunisia.

20th century

  • 1919 : The conference of peace grants the German concession of the Chantoung to the Japan, which leads the China to leave the conference.

  • 1922 : Pose first stone of the Église Notre-Dame of Raincy, monument emblematic of the Modern architecture, built by the brothers Gustave and Auguste Perret.

  • 1931 : China: Tchang Kaï-chek must simultaneously fight the rebellious troops of Canton and the communist insurrection.

  • 1950 : The single-seat fighter-bomber SE 2410 '' Grognard '' carries out its first vol.

  • 1952 : A court cancels the decision of the president Harry S. Truman to seize the American steel-works; a general strike begins.

  • 1970 : The president Richard Nixon announces that it gave the order to the American forces to intervene against the " sanctuaries " Communists with the Kampuchea.

  • 1973 : The White House announces the resignation of 4 eminent personages of the government Nixon whose names were mixed with the Scandale with Watergate.

  • 1975 : The forces North-Vietnamese occupy Saigon where is set up a provisional government, marking the end of the Guerre of Vietnam.

  • 1980 :

    • the queen Juliana of the Netherlands abdicates in favor of his/her daughter Beatrix, the day of its 61 years.
    • with London, a Commando takes the embassy of Iran, claiming the release of political prisoners; the seat will last six days.

  • 1984 : The pagoda Sukamoni, a pagoda out of wooden of three stages, very old, in the Temple Sangbongsa, in South Korea, is destroyed by a fire.

  • 1988 : with Dublin, Céline Dion gains the Concours Eurovision of the song.

  • 1990 : The American hostage Frank Reed is released with Beirut and is brought to Damas where it is given to the ambassador of the the United States by the Syrian Minister for the Foreign affairs. 57 years old, it had been removed the September 9th 1986. Married to Lebanese of Syrian origin, it was, at the time of the Rapt, international principal Lebanon ease.

  • 1991 : A typhoon accompanied by winds of 230 km/h and some 6 meters height waves make approximately 125.000 dead and of the million homeless person on the south-eastern coasts of the Bangladesh.

  • 1993 : In full match with Hamburg, the player Professionnel of Yugoslav Tennis Monica Seles (then number 1 world) is stabbed by a to support unbalanced of Steffi Graf.

  • 1998 : in South Africa, and the first time, a Black, Siphiwe Nyanda, direct the army.

  • 2000 :
    • with Perth, in Australia, the French Olivier Marceau is crowned world champion of Triathlon.
    • with Hanoi, the communist Vietnam of North celebrates the twenty-five years of the catch of Ho-Chi-Minh-City (Saigon) capital of the South.
    • First firm control for the Airbus A380 by the company Emirates Airlines.

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • the American billionaire Dennis Tito is the first space tourist: he is offered a voyage to edge of the space station ISS. He has to discharge 20 million dollars near the Russians.
    • Chandra Levy, trainee near the representative of the California Gary Condit, is seen for the last time at a gymnasium, with Washington.

  • 2002 : Afghanistan: Four hundred and thousand exiled returned since the end of the war.

  • 2003 : After five years of negotiations intended to put a term at nearly ten years of civil war, the Burundian president Pierre Buyoya, a Tutsi, passes the relay to his vice-president, Domitien Ndayizeye, an Hutu .

  • 2007 : Death of Grégory Lemarchal following a complication of its disease mucoviscidose. It was 23 years old.

Births

Death

Festivals and celebrations

  • national Festivals:
- Dutch West Indies: day of the Queen (1938).
- Netherlands: day of the Queen.

Catholic and orthodoxe saints

  • Jacques de Zébédée (Apostle).
  • Eutrope Holy (3rd century), martyr.

Catholic saints

Orthodoxe saints

  • Ignace de Stavropol († 1867), bishop (Briantchaninoff).

See too

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