What are the important events that happened on April 30? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

April 30: Facts & Myths About This Day

April 30 is the 120^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 245 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 17, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,745,971,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaicosagon’ day.

Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 293 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,513 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 30 Historical Events

• 313 –
  Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.
• 1894 –
  Coxey’s Army reaches Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
• 1900 –
  Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
• 1907 –
  Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
• 1920 –
  Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1939 –
  NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s N.Y. World’s Fair opening day ceremonial address.
• 1945 –
  World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
• 1961 –
  K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
• 1966 –
  The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California.
• 1973 –
  Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aids H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and others have resigned.

Who were born on April 30?

• 1664 –
  François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709)
• 1803 –
  Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (d. 1879)
• 1901 –
  Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
• 1902 –
  Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
• 1933 –
  Willie Nelson, American musician
• 1938 –
  Larry Niven, American author
• 1955 –
  Dimitra Liani, widow of the former Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou
• 1971 –
  Darren Emerson, British DJ (Underworld)
• 1983 –
  Troy Williamson, American football player
• 1984 –
  Lee Roache, British footballer

Who died on April 30?

• 1341 –
  John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1285)
• 1524 –
  Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473)
• 1879 –
  Emma Hale Smith Bidamon, wife of Joseph Smith, and mother of Joseph Smith III (b.1804)
• 1945 –
  Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German dictator of Nazi Germany (b. 1889)
• 1989 –
  Princess Bang-ja of Korea (b. 1901)
• 1993 –
  Tommy Caton, British footballer (b. 1962)
• 1996 –
  David Opatoshu, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1998 –
  Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet (b. 1926)
• 2002 –
  Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf (b. 1928)
• 2003 –
  Peter ‘Possum’Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1956)