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Events from History on April 30

1945 : "Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio
1972 : "Arthur Godfrey Time" ends a 27 year run on radio
1980 : "Barnum" opens at St James Theater NYC for 854 performances
1995 : "Blood Brothers" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 839 perfs
1996 : "Buried Child," opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 77 performances
1981 : "Can-Can" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 5 performances
1978 : "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" closes at Palace NYC after 101 perfs
1995 : "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 24 perfs
1948 : "Inside USA" opens at Century Theater NYC for 339 performances
1997 : "London Assurance," opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 72 performances
1977 : "Party with Comden & Green" closes at Morosco NYC after 92 perfs
1995 : "Rose Tattoo" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 80 perfs
1812 : (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state
1900 : 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match
1981 : 16th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell & George Jones
1984 : 1700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are Sweden
1562 : 1st French colonists in US: Jean Ribaut & Hugenots at Parris Is NC
1808 : 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
1961 : 1st shuttle flights between Wash DC, Boston & NYC begin (Eastern)
1942 : 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wi
1598 : 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
1889 : 1st US national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
1992 : 208th & final episode of Cosby Show on NBC-TV
1997 : 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay
1865 : -5/1] Gen Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia
1995 : After 120 years the last 15 A & S dept stores close
1982 : Alvaro Magana chosen to succeed Jose N Duarte as pres of El Salvador
1921 : American Professional Football Assn reorganizes in Akron
1852 : Anton Rubinsteins opera "Dmitri Donskoi," premieres in St Petersburg
1871 : Apaches in Arizona surrender to white & Mexican adventurers; 144 die
1990 : As Met pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Braves score
1986 : Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles
1934 : Austrian gets "Austrian facist" constitution
1864 : Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas; Gen W R Scurry is killed
1980 : Beatrix, Wilhelmina Armgard, crowned queen of Netherlands
1943 : Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews forms
1997 : Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes
1977 : Billy Graham beats Bruno Sammartino in Baltimore, to become WWF champ
1940 : Bkln Dodger Tex Carleton no-hits Cin Reds, 3-0
1885 : Boston Pops Orchestra forms
1947 : Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
1938 : Bradman scores 258 Aust v Worcs, 293 mins, 33 fours 1 five
1903 : Broadway, Manhattan), they beat Wash Senators, 6-2
1983 : Bruins 3-Isles 7-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 2-1 lead
1748 : Ceasefire at Aken ends
1898 : Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl
1928 : Cherkess Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR (until 1957)
1969 : Cin Red Jim Maloney 3rd no-hitter beats Houston Astros, 10-0
1946 : Cleve Indian Bob Feller's 2nd no-hitter beats NY Yankees, 1-0
1790 : Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village
1492 : Columbus is given royal commission to equip his fleet
1945 : Concentration camp Mnchen-Allag freed
1989 : Critics Siskel & Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show
1396 : Crusaders & earl of Nevers depart from Dijon
1954 : Darius Milhauds 4th Concert for piano/orch premieres in Haifa
1902 : Debussy's opera "Pell‚as et M‚lissande," premieres in Paris
1798 : Dept of Navy forms
1943 : Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry
1996 : Dutch/Itallian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral
1929 : Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austria
1955 : Element 101, Mendelevium, announced
1725 : Emperor Charles VI & King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna
1527 : England & France sign treaty of Westminster
1616 : English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen
1650 : French rebel Henri de la Tour Turenne signs treaty with Spain
1748 : French troops occupy Maastricht
1722 : Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant
1937 : General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth
1889 : George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ opens
1789 : George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US
1064 : German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland
1804 : Hague's Theater opens
1888 : Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi
1869 : Hawaiian YMCA organized
1967 : Highest tower to the world finished, 537m (USSR)
1996 : Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Grand Rapids MI on WKLQ 94.5 FM
1904 : Ice cream cone makes its debut
1955 : Imperial Bank of India nationalized
1991 : In Bangladesh a cyclone killed over 131,000 & left 9 million homeless
1982 : Iranian offensive in Khusistan
1349 : Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated
1563 : Jews are expelled from France by order of Charles VI
1772 : John Clais patents 1st scale
1980 : Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, abdicates
1988 : Largest banana split ever, at 455 miles long, was made in Penns
1985 : Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa
1975 : Last US helicopter leaves US embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders
1961 : Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk USSR
1953 : Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League
1763 : London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower
1945 : Lord Haw-Haw calls for crusade against the bolsheviks
1987 : Lou Lamoriello is named NJ Devils President
1979 : Mary Therese Friel, (New York), crowned 28th Miss USA
1952 : Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television
1976 : Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1962 : NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m
1860 : Navaho indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby)
1939 : NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of NY World's Fair
1864 : New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee
1838 : Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation
1973 : Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al
1943 : No‰l Coward's "This Happy Breed," premieres in London
1944 : NY Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs
1988 : NY Yank Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets AL & ties ML Rec
1918 : Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen
1948 : Org of American States charter signed at Bogot , Colombia
1967 : Orioles' Stu Miller & Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Tigers
1973 : Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love"
1887 : Philadelphia; Phillies beat Giants 19-10
1506 : Philip of Bourgondy & England sign trade agreement
1919 : Phillies beat Bkln Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings
1921 : Pope Benedict XV encyclical "On Dante"
1774 : Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
1989 : Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo of Madagascar
1911 : Portugal approves woman suffrage
1961 : Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize
1997 : Pres Clinton's daughter Chelsea chooses to attend Stanford College
1974 : Pres Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
1861 : President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory
1927 : Princess Juliana gets seat in Dutch Council of State
1945 : Red Army occupies Demmin
1945 : Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin
1977 : Ron Cey sets record of 29 RBIs in April
1980 : Ronald Harwood's "Dresser," premieres in London
1976 : Royal Canadian Mint opens a branch in Winnipeg Manitoba
1945 : Russian Army frees Ravensbrck concentration camp
1857 : San Jose State University forms
1994 : Soccer great Pele (53) weds psychologist Assiria Seixas Lemos (36)
1492 : Spain announces it will expels all Jews
1941 : Spread of Judaism begins in Croatia
1862 : Swift Run Gap, WV skirmishes
1997 : Tajik Prest Imomali Rakhmonov wounded in assassination attempt
1958 : Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits
1980 : Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London
1997 : Tino Martinez hits record 34 RBIs in April
1939 : Tropicana ballet of Havana Cuba, forms
1661 : Tsjeng Tsj'eng-Kung begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa
1990 : US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space
1989 : US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1803 : US doubles in size through Louisiana Purchase ($15 million)
1990 : US hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians
1945 : US troops attack the Elbe
1970 : US troops invade Cambodia
1900 : USA annexes Hawaii
1969 : WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 : West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & more wages
1695 : William Congreve's "Love for Love," premieres in London
1962 : Willie Mays hits 4 HRs
1976 : Wings release "Silly Love Songs"
1973 : Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments
1935 : World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul
1988 : World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Australia
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