30 April

This day

In History

• 1492 – Spain makes Columbus admiral of the ocean.
• 1598 – Édit de Nantes.
• 1789 – George Washington is inaugurated first President of the United States.
• 1803 – USA purchases Louisiana from Napoleon (for 15 million $), more than doubling it size! The much smaller Louisiana state is established on this day in 1812.
• 1863 – The Légion Étrangère fights the Bataille de Camerone, 65 men against 2000.
• 1897 – Discovery of the electron.
• 1905 – Einstein completes his Doctoral thesis.
• 1945 – Adolf Hitler kills himself. Soviet soldiers raise their flag on the Reichstag.
• 2004 – Abu Ghraib US war crimes publicized.
• 2008 – Alexei and Anastasia Romanov's corpses identified.

Birthdays

• 1777 – Carl Friedrich Gauss
• 1916 – Claude Shannon
• 1956 – Lars von Trier

Deaths

• 1945 – Hitler and Eva Braun