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April 30 is the 120th day of the year ... 1885 – Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, ... 1945 – World War II: ...
1945 was a common year ... April 30 – Adolf Hitler, along with his wife of one day Eva Braun, commits suicide. ... 1885) July 7 – Peter To Rot, ...
1885 was a common year ... April 30 – A bill is signed in the New York State legislature, forming the Niagara Falls State Park. ... 1945) February 13.
April 30: Inauguration of ... 1885 – Standard Oil Building constructed. Inauguration of the Statue of Liberty, 1886. 1886 ... 1945 July 28: A B-25 Mitchell ...
April 12 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (born 1882) April 17 – Ernie Pyle, journalist (born 1900) April 29 – Malcolm McGregor, silent film actor (born 1892) April 30 – William Orlando Darby, U.S. Army colonel, creator of the Rangers (born 1911; killed in action)
1945 – World War II: As Allied forces closed in on Berlin, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler committed suicide in the Führerbunker with Eva Braun one day after their marriage. 1982 – Sixteen monks and a nun of the Hindu organisation Ananda Marga were beaten to death and set on fire in Calcutta , India.
The Battle of Okinawa began. 50,000 American troops landed on Okinawa against little initial resistance and established a 13-kilometre (8.1 mi) beachhead. [1]The Japanese ocean liner-turned-hospital ship Awa Maru was passing through the Taiwan Strait when the American submarine USS Queenfish (SS-393) mistook it for a destroyer, torpedoed and sank it.
April 13 – Vean Gregg, baseball player (died 1964) May 2 Hedda Hopper, columnist (died 1966) Lee W. Stanley, cartoonist (died 1970) May 7 – George "Gabby" Hayes, Western film character actor (died 1969) May 14 – Ben J. Tarbutton, businessman and politician (died 1962) May 30 – Arthur E. Andersen, accountant (died 1947)