On My Birthday

A few select thing that have ocurred on April 30th.

313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule.

1006 - Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, appears in the constellation Lupus.

1789 - On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

1803 - Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling – overnight – the size of the young nation.

1900 - Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.

1904 - The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

1938 - The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Bugs Bunny.

1939 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to appear on television.

1939 - The 1939 New York World's Fair opens.

1943 - World War II: Operation Mincemeat – The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.

1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day.

1966 - Anton LaVey shaves his head and founds the Church of Satan in San Francisco, California

1975 - Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gains control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh.

And a few people that call the day Birthday, except for the dead ones, which really don't anymore.

1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1855)

1923 - Al Lewis, American actor and politician (d. 2006)

1933 - Willie Nelson, American musician, composer, and actor

1956 - Lars von Trier, Danish film director

1982 - Kirsten Dunst, American actress