April 30 in History

Historical Events on April 30

1492 Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.

1838 Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.

1863 A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.

1905 Albert Einstein writes his thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen ("A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions").

1943 World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.

1947 In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam for the second time.

1948 In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.

2004 U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

2008 Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.

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Famous Birthdays on April 30

1893 Joachim von Ribbentrop

1959 Stephen Harper

1963 Michael Waltrip

1986 Dianna Agron

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Famous Deaths on April 30

1632 Sigismund III Vasa

1865 Robert FitzRoy

1956 Alben W. Barkley

1980 Luis Muñoz Marín

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