Births on April 30

Cecily Lefort

Born on April 30, 1900

Cecily Lefort, English World War II heroine, spy for the SOE (d. 1945) [2]

Cecily Margot Gordon Lefort (30 April 1899 – February 1945) served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and in France for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers, especially Nazi Germany. SOE agents allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England.

Lefort arrived in France in June 1943 and was a courier, code named "Alice,' for SOE's (Jockey) network (or circuit). She was arrested by the Gestapo in September 1943 and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp where she was later executed.

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Events on 1900

16 Jan

American Samoa
The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
24 Mar

New York City Subway
Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
5 Apr

Linear B
Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
2 Jul

Lake Constance
The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
14 Jul

Boxer Rebellion
Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion.

Births on April 30

Cecily Lefort

Born on April 30, 1900

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American Samoa

New York City Subway

Linear B

Lake Constance

Boxer Rebellion