Wednesday, April 30, 2014

History for April 30

History for April 30 - On-This-Day.com
Happy Birthday! Kirsten Dunst, Willie Nelson, Burt Young


0030 - Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. 


1789 - George Washington took office as first elected U.S. president. 


1803 - The U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million. 


1900 - Casey Jones was killed while trying to save the runaway train "Cannonball Express." 


1943 - The British submarine HMS Seraph dropped 'the man who never was,' a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain. 


1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. They had been married for one day. One week later Germany surrendered unconditionally. 


1993 - Monica Seles was stabbed in the back during a tennis match in Hamburg, Germany. The man called himself a fan of second- ranked Steffi Graf. He was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm and received a suspended sentence. 

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