Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Fri Apr 30 2021 12:05 am
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
Registered to Omicron Theta
By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
04/30/1309 Kazimierz III de Great, King of Poland (1333-70)
04/30/1602 William Lilly, England, astrologer/author/almanac compiler
04/30/1651 Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theorist/saint
04/30/1717 Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer
04/30/1743 Robert Jasper van de Capellen, mister of Marsch/politician
04/30/1767 Jean Henri Appelius, lawyer/minister of Finance
04/30/1777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematicians
04/30/1790 John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrialist
04/30/1792 Johann Friedrich Schwencke, composer
04/30/1797 Andreas V Michiels, Dutch military governor of West-Sumatra
04/30/1797 Paul van Vlissingen, ship owner
04/30/1805 William Kerley Strong, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
04/30/1823 George JD Campbell, Scottish/Brit Minister to Indies (1868-74/80-85)
04/30/1830 Davis Tillson, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
04/30/1837 Alfred Gaul, composer
04/30/1851 Indri� Einarsson, Iceland playwright (Nyj�rsn�ttin)
04/30/1858 Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1893)
04/30/1864 French Netscher, writer/journalist (Studies of nude model)
04/30/1870 Franz Lehar, operetta composer (Naughty Marietta)
04/30/1874 Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest/writer
04/30/1882 Trijntje 'Nine' van de Schaaf, author (To the Invisible)
04/30/1883 David John de Lloyd, composer
04/30/1884 Albert Israel Elkus, composer
04/30/1885 Luigi Russolo, composer
04/30/1886 Frank Merrik, composer
04/30/1888 John Crowe Ransom, US poet/critic (God Without Thunder)
04/30/1889 Acario Cotapos, composer
04/30/1889 Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer
04/30/1893 Joachim von Ribbentrop, German SS f�hrer/foreign minister
04/30/1896 Gary Davis, Laurens SC, blues/folk guitarist (A Little More Faith)
04/30/1899 Jannetje Fisherman-Roosendaal, author (regional novels)
04/30/1899 Lucie Mannheim, actress (East Meets West, 39 Steps, High Command)
04/30/1902 Andre-Francois Marescotti, composer
04/30/1902 Rudolf Wittelsbach, composer
04/30/1903 G�nther AR Raphael, German composer (Symphony Breve)
04/30/1905 Henrich Schl�ppi, Switzerland, 4 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1924)
04/30/1909 Juliana, Queen of Netherlands (1948-80)
04/30/1910 Al Lewis, actor (Leo-Car 54, Grandpa-Munsters)
04/30/1911 Hans Studer, composer
04/30/1911 John-Baptist J Walgrave, [Henricus/Humanus], Flemish, theologist
04/30/1912 Eve Arden, Mill Valley Calif, actress (Connie-Our Miss Brooks)
04/30/1916 Dugo D Schenker, Suriname/Antillian playwright
04/30/1916 Robert Shaw, Red Bluff Calif, chorale conductor (Robert Shaw Chorale
04/30/1917 Bea Wain, US actress/radio hostess
04/30/1919 Valeer [Valerius V] van Kerkhove, Flemish writer/producer
04/30/1920 Leen 't Hart, organist/composer
04/30/1924 Sheldon Harnick, Broadway songwriter (Fiorello, Fiddler on the Roof)
04/30/1926 Corinne Calvet, France, actress (Apache Uprising)
04/30/1926 Edmund Cooper, UK, sci-fi author (Seed of Light, All Fool's Day)
04/30/1927 Lars Hall, Sweden, Pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1952)
04/30/1929 Peter Carsten, Weissenberg Bavaria, actor (Mr Super Invisible)
04/30/1930 Raoul de Keyser, [Dekeyser], Flemish painter
04/30/1931 William L [Bill] Clay, (Rep-D-MO, 1969- )
04/30/1932 Anton Larrauri, composer
04/30/1933 Willie Nelson, Abbott Texas, country singer (On the Road Again)
04/30/1936 Zohra Lampert, actress (Doctors' Hospital, Girl With Something Extra
04/30/1938 Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, Queen of Netherlands (1980- )
04/30/1938 Gary Collins, Venice Calif, actor (6th Sense, Home Show)
04/30/1938 Larry [Van Cott] Niven, US, sci-fi author (5 Hugo, Neutron Star)
04/30/1939 Ellen Taafe Zwilich, Miami Florida, (1st woman composer Pulitzer 198
04/30/1939 Pieter van Vollenhoven, husband of Dutch Princess Margriet
04/30/1940 Burt Young, actor (Convoy, Rocky)
04/30/1941 Wilfried Jentzsh, composer
04/30/1943 Bobby Vee, Fargo ND, (Devil or Angel, Night has a Thousand Eyes)
04/30/1943 Robert L Livingston, (Rep-R-Louisiana, 1977- )
04/30/1944 Jill Clayburgh, NY, actress (Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough)
04/30/1945 Annie Dillard, American writer (An American Childhood)
04/30/1945 Claude van de Berge, [Rony MF Pauwels], Flemish writer (Graph Theory
04/30/1946 Donald Schollander, Charlotte NC, swimmer (Olympic-4 gold-64)
04/30/1946 Karl XVI Gustav F H, King of Sweden (1973- )
04/30/1947 Robert Scott, (Rep-D-Virginia)
04/30/1948 Perry King, actor (Andy Warhol's 'Bad')
04/30/1951 Panuta Rosani, Poland, discus (Olympic 1976) drug disqualified
04/30/1952 Tom Pesek, creator of HAL 9000 program for the PC
04/30/1953 Merrill Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
04/30/1954 G�nther Tiersch, German DR, 8 man cox (Olympic-gold-1968)
04/30/1956 Richard Farina, folk singer (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
04/30/1959 Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/English/Neth actor
04/30/1961 Isiah Thomas, NBA forward (Detroit Piston; 1990 NBA playoff MVP)
04/30/1966 David Meggett, NFL running back (NY Giants)
04/30/1969 Joey Restivo, Brooklyn, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way, Lies)
04/30/1971 Matt Martin, Hamden Conn, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
04/30/1975 Johnny Galecki, actor (Danny-American Dreamer)
Deaths:
04/30/ 313 Gaius G V Maximus, [Daia], Emperor of Rome, dies
04/30/ 535 Amalaswintha, queen of Ostrogoten, murdered
04/30/1030 Mohammud van Ghazna, Turkish mayor (G'widen)/Islamic ruler, dies
04/30/1196 Boudewijn II, bishop of Utrecht (1178-96), dies
04/30/1214 Huguccio/Hugo van Pisa, Italian bishop, dies
04/30/1328 ... Eckhard, German theologist/mystic, dies
04/30/1630 Ercole Porta, composer, dies at 44
04/30/1632 Jean de Tilly, field marshal, dies
04/30/1632 Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden, dies at 65
04/30/1660 Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 84
04/30/1671 P�ter Zrinyi, Hungarian banished to Croatia, beheaded at 49
04/30/1708 Simon de Vries, book seller/writer (Unequal), dies
04/30/1743 Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian playwright/poet, dies
04/30/1784 Franz K earl von Velbruck, German free mason, dies
04/30/1785 Frederick Philipse 3, land owner (Bronx, Westch & Putnam), dies at 6
04/30/1792 Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer, dies at 36
04/30/1793 Lorenzo Fago, composer, dies at 88
04/30/1795 Jean-Jacques Barth�lemy, French historian (Ancient Greece), dies
04/30/1800 John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, dies at 46
04/30/1828 Shaka, the great Zulu King, killed
04/30/1829 George Washington Adams, son of John Q Adams, dies on City Is NYC
04/30/1847 Charles L J, archduke of Austria/gov-gen (Austria-Netherland), dies
04/30/1848 Friedrich Freiherr Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant, dies at 53
04/30/1855 Henry Rowley Bishop, composer, dies at 68
04/30/1859 Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Bagrova-vnuka), dies at 67
04/30/1887 Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer, dies at 71
04/30/1893 Edouard Manet, French painter (Olympia), dies at 61
04/30/1893 Gyula Beliczay, composer, dies at 57
04/30/1896 Antonio Cagnoni, composer, dies at 68
04/30/1900 John Luther (Casey) Jones, dies in Cannonball Express train wreck
04/30/1912 Frantisek Kmoch, composer, dies
04/30/1922 David M Chumaceiro, Cura�aos poet, dies
04/30/1929 Friedrich Lienhard, German publisher (T�rmer), dies at 63
04/30/1933 Luis Sanchez Cerro, Pres of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza
04/30/1934 William Henry Welch, dies at 75
04/30/1942 Catherine Murphy Urner, composer, dies at 51
04/30/1943 Beatrice Potter Webb, British writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85
04/30/1943 Etty Hillesum, diary writer (Auschwitz), dies
04/30/1945 Adolph Hitler, German dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56
04/30/1945 Eva Braun, girlfriend/wife of Hitler, dies
04/30/1952 Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer, dies
04/30/1956 Alben W Barkley, (VP-D-1949-53), dies at 78
04/30/1957 Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven), dies at 80
04/30/1959 Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 81
04/30/1963 Bryant Washburn, actor (Nabonga, Millionaire Kid), dies at 74
04/30/1965 Helen Chandler, actress (Dracula, Salute, Last Flight), dies at 56
04/30/1968 Frankie Lymon, rocker, dies of a heroin overdose
04/30/1970 Hall Johnson, composer, dies at 82
04/30/1970 Inger Stevens, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide at
04/30/1970 Jacob Presser, historian/writer (Doom, Ondergang), dies
04/30/1971 Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll), dies at 70
04/30/1972 Gia Scala, actress (Garment Jungle, I Aim at the Stars), dies at 38
04/30/1972 Ntare V, king of Burundi, murdered
04/30/1973 Josie Sedgwick, actress (White Moth), dies at 75
04/30/1974 Agnes Moorehead, actress (Endorra-Bewitched), dies at 67
04/30/1976 Edvard Fliflet Braein, composer, dies at 51
04/30/1977 Clive Martin Douglas, composer, dies at 73
04/30/1980 Mary McCarty, actress (French Line), dies
04/30/1982 Albert TLCA Bird, lecture artist, dies
04/30/1982 Herman Tholen, cabaretier (Juveniles), dies
04/30/1982 Taisen Deshimaru, founder of several Zen centers in France, dies at
04/30/1983 George Balanchine, Russian composer, dies at 79
04/30/1983 Jerry Hatsuo Fujikawa, actor (Uncle Matsu-Mr T & Tina), dies at 71
04/30/1984 Arthur T 'Bomber' Harris, bombed nazi-Germany, dies
04/30/1984 Muddy Waters, blues singer/guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man), dies at
04/30/1985 George Pravada, actor (Felscher-Holocaust), dies at 66
04/30/1987 Hugh Dempster, actor (Anna Karenina, Candles at Nine), dies
04/30/1988 James McCracken, US tenor, dies at 61
04/30/1989 Sergio Leone, Italian director (Good, Bad & Ugly), dies
04/30/1991 George Sperti Sperti, inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91
04/30/1991 Michael G Hagerty, actor (Overboard), dies
04/30/1992 Dan van Driel, cartoonist (Nervous Cop), dies
04/30/1993 Dave Waymer, NFLer, dies at 34
04/30/1994 Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at
04/30/1994 Richard Scarry, US kid book illustrator/writer, dies at 74
04/30/1994 Roland Ratzenberger, Austria Formula 1-cyclist, dies in accident at
Significant Events:
04/30/ 311 Roman emperor Galerius delegates tolerance edict of Serdica
04/30/1006 Brightest supernova in recorded history is observed
04/30/1064 German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland
04/30/1349 Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated
04/30/1396 Crusaders & earl of Nevers depart from Dijon
04/30/1492 Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
04/30/1492 Spain announces it will expels all Jews
04/30/1562 1st French colonists in US: Jean Ribaut & Hugenot
04/30/1563 Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI
04/30/1598 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
04/30/1616 English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen
04/30/1661 Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa
04/30/1722 Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant
04/30/1725 Emperor Charles VI & King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna
04/30/1774 Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
04/30/1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US
04/30/1790 Colonial troops occupy Booni's bosnegerdorp Arouku Suriname
04/30/1798 Dept of Navy established
04/30/1803 US doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase ($15 million)
04/30/1804 Hague's Theater opens
04/30/1808 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
04/30/1812 (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state
04/30/1838 Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation
04/30/1857 San Jose State University forms
04/30/1859 Paul Morphy returns from 10-mo chess tour of Europe, retires
04/30/1860 Navaho indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby)
04/30/1861 Federal Troops, under orders from Lincoln, evacuate Indian Territory
04/30/1862 Swift Run Gap, WV skirmishes
04/30/1864 Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; Gen W R Scurry is killed
04/30/1864 New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee
04/30/1865 -5/1] Gen Shermans 'Haines's Bluff' at Snyder's Mill, Virginia
04/30/1869 Hawaiian YMCA organized
04/30/1871 Apaches in Arizona surrender to white & Mexican adventurers; 144 die
04/30/1888 Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi
04/30/1889 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
04/30/1889 George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ opens
04/30/1898 Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl
04/30/1900 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match
04/30/1900 USA annexes Hawaii
04/30/1903 Highlanders (Yankees) 1st home opener; Chesbro beats Senators 6-2
04/30/1905 1st offical soccer game between Belgium-Netherland (1-4)
04/30/1911 Portugal approves woman suffrage
04/30/1913 Neujmin & Belyavskij discover asteroids #752 Sulamitis & #753 Tiflis
04/30/1919 Phillies beat Bkln Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings
04/30/1921 American Professional Football Assn reorganizes in Akron
04/30/1921 Pope Benedict XV encyclical 'On Dante'
04/30/1922 Chic White Sox Charles Robertson perfect games Detroit Tigers, 2-0
04/30/1927 Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State
04/30/1928 Cherkess Autonomous Region established in RSFSR (until 1957)
04/30/1929 Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austrian
04/30/1934 Austrian gets 'Austrian facist' constitution
04/30/1935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1355 Magoeba & #1368 Numidia
04/30/1935 World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul
04/30/1937 General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth
04/30/1939 NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of NY World's Fair
04/30/1939 Tropicana ballet of Havana Cuba, forms
04/30/1940 Bkln Dodger Tex Carleton no-hits Cin Reds, 3-0
04/30/1941 Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia
04/30/1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi
04/30/1943 Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews established
04/30/1943 Dutch strike against obligatory Labor camps
04/30/1944 NY Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs
04/30/1944 NY Giant, Mel Ott scores 6 runs in 1 game drawing 5 walks for 4th ti
04/30/1945 'Arthur Godfrey Time' begins a 27 year run on CBS radio
04/30/1945 Concentration camp M�nchen-Allag freed
04/30/1945 Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolshevics
04/30/1945 Red army storms German parliament
04/30/1945 Russian Army frees Ravensbr�ck concentration camp
04/30/1946 Cleve Indian Bob Feller's 2nd no-hitter beats NY Yankees, 1-0
04/30/1947 Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
04/30/1948 Org of American States charter signed at Bogot�, Colombia
04/30/1955 Element 101, Mendelevium, announced
04/30/1955 Perez Prado's 'Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White' goes #1 for 10 wee
04/30/1955 West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & more wages
04/30/1961 1st shuttle flights between Wash DC, Boston & NYC begin (Eastern)
04/30/1961 Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk USSR
04/30/1961 Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize
04/30/1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m
04/30/1962 Willie Mays hits 4 HRs
04/30/1967 Highest tower to the world finished, 537m (USSR)
04/30/1967 Orioles' Stu Miller & Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Tiger
04/30/1968 3 Oriole pitchers walk 14 NY Yankees in a 9 inning game
04/30/1969 Cin Red Jim Maloney 3rd no-hitter beats Houston Astros, 10-0
04/30/1969 WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
04/30/1970 US troops invade Cambodia
04/30/1971 Milwaukee Bucks sweep Balt Bullets for NBA championship
04/30/1972 'Arthur Godfrey Time' ends a 27 year run on radio
04/30/1973 Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al
04/30/1973 Paul McCartney releases 'Red Rose Speedway' including 'My Love'
04/30/1973 Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments
04/30/1975 US civilian forces evacuate Vietnam; Saigon surrenders
04/30/1976 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Jimmy Young in Landover Md
04/30/1976 Wings release 'Silly Love Songs'
04/30/1977 Billy Graham beats Bruno Sammartino in Baltimore, to become WWF cham
04/30/1980 Beatrix, Wilhelmina Armgard, crowned queen of Netherlands
04/30/1980 Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London
04/30/1982 Iran offensive in Khusistan
04/30/1983 Bruins 3-Isles 7-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 2-1 lead
04/30/1984 1700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are, Sweden
04/30/1984 Strong winds cause a 30 min delay in Toronto Blue Jays game
04/30/1985 Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa
04/30/1986 Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles
04/30/1987 NY Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game
04/30/1988 NJ Devils beat Caps 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final
04/30/1988 NY Knights 1st arena football game beats Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in LA)
04/30/1988 NY Yank Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets AL & ties ML R
04/30/1988 World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Australia
04/30/1989 Critics Siskel & Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show
04/30/1989 US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
04/30/1990 As Met pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Braves score
04/30/1990 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from spac
04/30/1991 Cyclone kills 125,000 in Bangladesh
04/30/1992 208th & final episode of Cosby Show on NBC-TV
04/30/1994 Soccer superstar Pele marries psychologist Assiria Seixas Lemos
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