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What happened in history on this day: April 30?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On April 30 in ...
- 1992 - In the first four months of the year, Microsoft has shipped 10 million copies of Windows 3.0.
- 1997 - Power Computing begins shipping the PowerCenter Pro line for the Mac OS. The systems feature 180 to 210 MHz PowerPC 604e processors, 16X CD-ROM drives. Prices start at US$2,095.
- 1998 - The Republic of China issues a postage stamp for the 70th anniversary of copyright law, showing a personal computer.
- 2000 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the US. In the year 3000, the 3.5-inch diskette is still used to store data. A robot uses a mouse and mousepad as chest ornaments.
- 2006 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. Personal computers appear at an elementary school for girls.
- 1927 - Disney ships the 53rd Alice Comedy film, Alice's Medicine Show, to Winkler Pictures.
- 1928 - Universal Pictures releases the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Ozzie of the Mounted to theaters.
- 1931 - Disney completes the Mickey Mouse film The Moose Hunt. Pluto also appears, and is first called by name. Pluto speaks for the first and only time in his career.
- 1948 - The Pluto film Bone Bandit is released.
- 1958 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, entitled An Adventure in Art.
- 1961 - The ABC TV network airs the Walt Disney Presents TV show, entitled Flash, the Teenage Otter.
- 1969 - Disney shows the 16-mm film Walt Disney World - Phase 1 at a Florida press conference. The film shows the master plan and artists' depictions for Walt Disney World.
- 1976 - Milt Kahl retires from the Disney Company. He worked on animation for 22 Disney short film, and 24 feature films.
- 1981 - Dominica issues two postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of Pluto.
- 1984 - Eastman Kodak ends sponsorship of the Golden Horseshoe Revue show at Disneyland.
- 1984 - The Disney board of directors' compensation committee votes to increase Ron Miller's annual salary from US$375,000 to US$500,000.
- 1989 - The NBC TV network airs a two-hour TV special The Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park Grand Opening.
- 1990 - Disney releases the film Goofy's Office Safety Championship for educational use.
- 1990 - Disney releases the film Goofy's Plant Safety Championship for educational use.
- 1991 - Disney and Henson Associates announce an agreement for Disney to use certain Muppet characters. Disney will pay for an 18-month license for two movies at the Disney-MGM Studios, and three years for characters in Walt Disney World.
- 1993 - The Walt Disney Company announces an agreement to acquire Miramax Film Corporation. Disney will acquire Miramax's library of over 200 films.
- 1993 - Disney generally releases the Hollywood Pictures live-action feature film Bound by Honor to theaters in the US. It premiered under the title Blood In, Blood Out.
- 1995 - The Beauty and the Beast stage show in Disneyland ends.
- 1995 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. Storm clouds form a man's head, who talks to a character, similar to a scene in The Lion King. Then, Mufasa appears in the clouds saying "You must avenge my death, Kimba -- I mean, Simba."
- 1999 - Albania issues four postage stamps depicting Mickey Mouse.
- 1999 - Buena Vista releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film The Waterboy to theaters in Great Britain.
- 1999 - Activision releases the A Bug's Life video game for the Nintendo 64.
- 2006 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A musical stage play mimics part of Disney's The Lion King, including music.
- 1953 - The General Motors Motorama show is on display in San Francisco, California, over eight days.
- 2000 - Dave Hill, Chief Engineer of Corvette, unveils the 2001 Z06 model Corvette, with new hard top, and 385 HP LS6 engine.
- 1940 - In a letter to the New York Times, Samuel Harden Church, president of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offers a US$1 million cash reward for the safe capture of Adolf Hitler.
- 1940 - A German Heinkel plane crashes in Clacton-on-Sea, England, killing two on the ground, England's first civilian casualties of the war.
- 1940 - A French military attaché in Berne, Switzerland, reports to French intelligence that a German attack on the West is set for May 8-10, focusing on Sedan.
- 1940 - Total value of United States shipments of war material during the past four months: US$43.4 million to France, US$11 million to Great Britain.
- 1941 - The USA proposes to transfer part of the US Pacific fleet to the Atlantic Ocean. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill supports the move.
- 1941 - British Lieutenant General Bernard Cyril Freyberg takes command of 35,600 British, New Zealand, Australian, and Greek troops on Crete.
- 1945 - (dawn) American, French, and Canadian forces make an amphibious assault on Ile d'Oleron on the French Atlantic coast.
- 1945 - (morning) American 5th Army's 442nd Infantry Regiment enters Turin, Italy.
- 1945 - (morning) In Milan, Italy, partisans execute former chief of staff for the Italian Army Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, following a quick trial.
- 1945 - Allies in Italy capture Gargnano, Cittadella, Bassano, Friolo, Treviso, Chioggia, and Alessandria.
- 1945 - British troops liberate over 21,500 prisoners in Sandbostel, Germany.
- 1945 - Romania issues six postage stamps honoring victims of Nazi terrorism.
- 1945 - Soviet forces launch an assault on Berlin, Germany.
- 1945 - (2250 hours) The Soviet Red Army troops capture the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany.
- 1945 - Troops of the Second White Russian Front capture Greifswald, Treptow, Neustrelitz, Fuerstenberg, Gransee, Lassen, Wolgast, Rheinsberg, Hanshagen, Zuessow, Guetzkow, Jarmen, Bartow, Burow, Sarow, Wolde, Penzlin, Menz, Gros-Woltersdorf, Dolgow.
- 1945 - North of Berlin, troops of the First White Russian Front capture Zendenick, Klein-Muetz, Bergsdorf, Falkenthal, Guten-Germendorf, Loewenberg, Grueneberg, Teschendorf, Nassenheide.
- 1945 - Troops of the Fourth Ukrainian Front capture Moravska Ostrava in Czechoslovakia, and Zilina.
- 1945 - Troops of the Second Ukrainian Front capture Buchlovice, Stupava, Korycany, Nemotice, Milonice, Svabenice, Ivanice, Dedice.
- 1945 - Canadian forces clear most of Leer, Netherlands, from German forces.
- 1945 - Allied force in Czechoslovakia capture an airfield northeast of Eger.
- 1945 - Allied forces reach Moosburg, liberating a prisoner-of-war camp of 110,000 British and American troops.
- 1945 - US Strategic Air Forces in Europe and the British Air Ministry declare an end to strategic bombing in Europe. The policy is declared to have come up to every expectation, wrecking oil plants, aircraft factories, and railway systems.
- 1945 - (Japan time) B-29 Superfortresses of US 21st Bomber Command from the Marianas Islands makes a two-pronged strike on Japan, one on aircraft installations on Kyushu Island, the other at industrial targets in the Tokyo area. No bombers are shot down.
- 1945 - (1530 hours) In the command bunker in Berlin, Germany, a single shot is heard from Adolf Hitler's quarters. Hitler's valet Heinz Linge and an orderly emerge with a blanket-covered body. Martin Bormann, Hitler's private secretary, follows with the body of a woman. The corpses are burned with gasoline in a shell crater in a garden area.
- 1945 - (1700 hours) American 7th Army takes control of Munich, as next-to-last resistance ends.
- 1945 - (1835 hours) Karl Dönitz receives a radio message from Martin Bormann informing him that Adolf Hitler has designated him as his successor.
- 1945 - The German Reich Chancellery confirms Rear Admiral Karl Dönitz as Reichspräisident and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.
- 1945 - American 7th Infantry Division troops enter Kuhazu village on east central Okinawa, Japan.
- 1945 - Calcutta, India, ends its wartime blackout.
- 1945 - (evening) An Allied force lands on the east coast of Borneo.
- 1985 - Bulgaria issues four postage stamps marking the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II.
- 1990 - Grenada issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes of World War II.
- 1990 - Grenada Graendines issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes of World War II.
- 2010 - The National Bank of Ukraine releases to circulation a 1-hryvnia aluminum-bronze coin marking the 65th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War.
- 1982 - New York Superior Court judge Milton Feller declares unconstitutional a community ordinance in Garwood, New Jersey, that required video game players to be at least 18 years old.
- 1998 - Sega releases the Panzer Dragoon Saga video game for the Saturn in the US.
- 1999 - Activision releases the A Bug's Life video game for the Nintendo 64 in the USA.
- 2000 - Rockstar Games releases the Grand Theft Auto 2 video game for the Dreamcast in the US.
- 2002 - Capcom releases the Resident Evil video game for the GameCube in the US.
- 2005 - In Seattle, Washington, Nintendo holds the final competitions of a month-long Pokémon Emerald contest, with top players from the US and Canada. Winner is Chris Darling.
- 1471 - At Arboga, Sten Gustavsson Sture, nephew to the late king, is chosen as governor, and regent.
- 1946 - Karl Gustaf is born to Prince Gustaf Adolf and Sibylla, at Haga Palace.
- 1964 - Due to heavy demand for 1964 mint sets, the Royal Canadian Mint stops accepting orders. Requests for the 1.5 million available sets have already been received. In previous years, orders were accepted until the Fall of each year.
- 1969 - The design competition for the 1970 $1 coin ends.
- 1970 - The design competition for the 1971 $1 coin closes.
- 1976 - The Winnipeg branch of the Royal Canadian Mint is officially opened. It houses 31 coining presses, capable of producing 700 million coins per year in one shift of workers.
- 1982 - In Montreal, the Monex Coin and Stamp show and auction is held, over three days. Over 3000 people attend. At auction, a 1921 gem BU 5c sells for $34,000. A 1947 ML set with curved right '7' sells for $28,000.
- 1987 - British High Commissioner to Canada Derek Day presents a test striking of a 1911 "Dei Gratia" 1-cent coin to Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada John Crow for display on long term loan from the British Royal Mint. Two of such patterns were struck in 1911.
- 1829 - US government purchases site for new Philadelphia Mint for $31,666.67.
- 1865 - US Congress authorizes the copper-nickel 3-cent coin.
- 1917 - Representative William Ashbrook of Ohio introduces a bill in the House of Representatives to allow changes to the designs of the Standing Liberty/Flying Eagle quarter dollar to be made.
- 1948 - The US Mint releases the 1948 Franklin half dollar to circulation.
- 1973 - The General Services Administration begins the second round of selling government-held Morgan silver dollars to the public, for fixed prices: $30 each for 1882-84 CC, $30 for 1890-91 CC, $15 for 1878-CC, $15 for mixed dates circulated CC, $5 for mixed uncirculated Morgan dollars, $3 for mixed circulated Morgan dollars.
- 1722 - The game of Billiards is mentioned in the New England Courant.
- 1887 - First game played at Broad and Huntingdon Saint Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Philadelphia Phillies beat New York Giants 19-10.
- 1898 - Championship wrestling match at the Metropolitan turns into a brawl.
- 1900 - 165-pound Robert Fitzsimmons knocks out 305-pound Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match.
- 1903 - New York Highlanders first home game, (Hilltop Park-168th Steet and Broadway, Manhattan), they beat Washington Senators, 6-2.
- 1905 - First official soccer game between Belgium and Netherlands (1-4).
- 1910 - Cleveland Naps' pitcher Addie Joss wins second no-hitter beating Chicago White Sox.
- 1919 - Philadelphia Phillies beat Brooklyn Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings.
- 1921 - American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron, Ohio.
- 1938 - Donald Bradman scores 258 Australia versus Worcestershire, 293 minutes, 33 fours 1 five.
- 1939 - Lou Gehrig plays his 2130th consecutive game with the New York Yankees.
- 1940 - Brooklyn Dodgers' Tex Carleton no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 3-0.
- 1944 - New York Giants' Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs.
- 1944 - New York Giants' Mel Ott scores six runs in one game drawing five walks for fourth time.
- 1946 - Cleveland Indians' Bob Feller's second no-hitter beats New York Yankees, 1-0.
- 1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA 144-hole Golf Weathervane.
- 1952 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Stockton Golf Open.
- 1953 - Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League.
- 1958 - Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits.
- 1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.
- 1961 - San Francisco Giants' Willie Mays hits four homeruns in a game.
- 1967 - Baltimore Orioles' Stu Miller and Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Detroit Tigers.
- 1967 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational.
- 1967 - New York Mets' pitcher Tom Seaver wins his first game.
- 1968 - Three Baltimore Orioles pitchers walk 14 New York Yankees in a 9-inning game.
- 1969 - Cincinnati Reds' Jim Maloney third no-hitter, beats Houston Astros, 10-0.
- 1970 - Chicago Cubs' Billy Williams is first National League player to play in 1,000 consecutive games.
- 1971 - 25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee Bucks beat Baltimore Bullets in four games.
- 1972 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Open.
- 1973 - Women's tennis groups end disputes over sanctioning tournaments.
- 1976 - Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 round for heavyweight boxing title.
- 1978 - Janet Coles wins LPGA Natural Light Lady Tara Golf Classic.
- 1982 - Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season.
- 1984 - 1700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are, Sweden.
- 1985 - Dale Murphy drives in record tying 28th and 29th runs of April.
- 1986 - Seattle Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in two consecutive games.
- 1987 - Lou Lamoriello is named New Jersey Devils' president.
- 1987 - NASCAR driver Bill Elliott sets all time fastest lap at Talladega Motor Speedway: 211 mph (340 km/h).
- 1988 - Baltimore Orioles win record 14th straight from beginning of season.
- 1988 - New Jersey Devils beat Washington Capitals 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final.
- 1988 - New York Knights' first arena football game; beat Los Angeles Cobras 60-52 in Los Angeles.
- 1988 - New York Yankees' Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April; sets American League and ties major league record.
- 1989 - Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic.
- 1989 - US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in third round of 1990 world soccer cup.
- 1990 - As New York Mets pitcher David Cone argues a call at first base, two Atlanta Braves' players score.
- 1990 - Seattle Mariners' Brian Holman's perfect game broken up with two outs in 9th.
- 1993 - Tennis star Monica Seles is stabbed in the back by an obsessed fan of rival Steffi Graf at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany.
- 1995 - Val Skinner wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship.
- 2005 - Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig asks players to agree to a 50-game suspension for the first offense for the use of steroids, 100-game suspension for the second offense, and a lifelong ban after the third offense.
- 2006 - In the Australian Football League, a match between Saint Kilda and Fremantle ends in controversial circumstances after Saint Kilda's Steven Baker is alleged to have kicked a behind after the final siren had went. Following an investigation, the Saints are stripped of two competition points and the full win is handed to Fremantle.
- 2022 - At Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Detroit Tigers beats Los Angeles Dodgers by score 5-1.
- 2022 - At Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Colorado Rockies beats Cincinnati Reds by score 4-3.
- 2022 - At Citi Field in New York City, New York, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Philadelphia Phillies beats New York Mets by score 4-1.
- 2022 - At Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: New York Yankees beats Kansas City Royals by score 3-0.
- 2022 - At American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Milwaukee Brewers beats Chicago Cubs by score 9-1.
- 2022 - At Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Baltimore Orioles beats Boston Red Sox by score 2-1.
- 2022 - At Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Texas Rangers beats Atlanta Braves by score 3-1.
- 2022 - At PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Pittsburgh Pirates beats San Diego Padres by score 7-6.
- 2022 - At T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Washington, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Miami Marlins beats Seattle Mariners by score 3-1.
- 2022 - At Tropicana Field in Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Minnesota Twins beats Tampa Bay Rays by score 9-1.
- 2022 - At RingCentral Coliseum, Oakland, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Cleveland Guardians beats Oakland Athletics by score 3-1.
- 2022 - At Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: San Francisco Giants beats Washington Nationals by score 9-3.
- 2022 - At Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Chicago White Sox beats Los Angeles Angels by score 4-0.
- 2022 - At Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Major League Baseball regular season game: Toronto Blue Jays beats Houston Astros by score 2-1.
- 2022 - At Busch Stadium in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Arizona Diamondbacks beats Saint Louis Cardinals by score 2-0.
- 1006 - Brightest supernova in recorded history is observed.
- 1990 - US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space.
- 1996 - Dutch/Italian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral.
- 2020 - NASA officially selects SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics to build its next-generation lunar lander to carry American astronauts to the Moon by 2024.
- 1888 - Hailstones kill about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi, India.
- 1789 - George Washington inaugurated as first President of USA, taking oath of office on alter Bible of Saint John's Masonic Lodge No. 1, New York City.
- 1798 - US Congress establishes the Department of the Navy.
- 1803 - The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory (nearly 1 million square miles) from France for $15 million, doubling the size of the country.
- 1812 - (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state.
- 1829 - US purchases site for new Philadelphia Mint for $31,666.67.
- 1860 - Navaho Indians attack Fort Defiance (Canby).
- 1861 - US President Abraham Lincoln orders federal troops to evacuate Indian Territory.
- 1862 - Swift Run Gap, West Virginia, skirmishes.
- 1864 - New York becomes first state to charge a hunting license fee.
- 1864 - Battle of Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas; General William Read Scurry is killed.
- 1865 - US Congress authorizes the copper-nickel 3-cent coin.
- 1865 - General Tecumseh Sherman's "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia.
- 1871 - Apaches in Arizona surrender to white and Mexican adventurers; 144 die.
- 1889 - First US national holiday, on centennial of George Washington's Presidential inauguration.
- 1900 - John Luther Jones AKA Casey Jones dies in Cannonball Express train wreck in Vaughan, Mississippi, USA.
- 1904 - The Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in Saint Louis, Missouri.
- 1939 - NBC and RCA give first public television demonstration with US President Franklin Roosevelt at opening of New York World's Fair.
- 1941 - US President Franklin Roosevelt purchases first Defence Savings Bond from Secretary of Treasury.
- 1942 - First submarine built on Great Lakes is launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA.
- 1945 - US troops attack the Elbe.
- 1947 - Boulder Dam in Colorado, USA, renamed Hoover Dam in honor of Herbert Hoover.
- 1948 - The US Mint releases the 1948 Franklin half dollar to circulation.
- 1948 - Organization of American States charter signed at Bogotá, Colombia.
- 1948 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak.
- 1961 - First shuttle flights between Washington DC, Boston Massachusetts and New York City, New York begin (Eastern Airlines).
- 1962 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to an altitude of 75,190 metres.
- 1964 - Federal Communications Commission rules that all US TV receivers should be equipped to receive both VHF (channels 2-13) and the new UHF (channels 14-83).
- 1972 - Arthur Godfrey Time ends a 27-year run on radio.
- 1973 - US President Richard Nixon announces resignation of Chief of Staff Harry Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al.
- 1974 - US President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings.
- 1975 - Last US helicopter leaves US embassy grounds in Vietnam; Saigon surrenders. The army of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam takes over the Republic of Vietnam. During the decade of fighting, 58,000 American soldiers died.
- 1977 - Led Zeppelin breaks the world attendance record at a concert, playing to 76,229 people at the Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan, USA.
- 1979 - Mary Therese Friel of New York crowned 28th Miss USA.
- 1981 - 16th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell and George Jones win.
- 1988 - Largest banana split ever, at 4.55 miles long, is made in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.
- 1990 - US hostage Frank Reed freed after four years in hands of pro-Iranians.
- 1993 - The Walt Disney Company announces an agreement to acquire Miramax Film Corporation. Disney will acquire Miramax's library of over 200 films.
- 2009 - The World Health Organization raises its global pandemic alert to Level 5 from Level 4 due to the spread of H1N1 flu virus. In the USA, about 300 schools are closed. In Mexico, the death toll reaches 176, and President Felipe Calderon tells government offices and private businesses not crucial to the economy to stop work on May 1 for five days, to avoid further spreading the virus.
- 2009 - Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announces a deal with Fiat. The US government announces it will provide up to US$3.5 billion in debtor-in-possession financing and up to US$4.5 billion in exit financing. The company is expected to continue under a new ownershop arrangement: 55 percent United Auto Workers' healthcare trust fund, Fiat 20 percent, U.S. and Canadian governments with a combined stake of 10 percent.
- 2012 - Energy Transfer Partners announces it would pay $5.3 billion for Sunoco, making it the second largest pipeline firm in the US.
- 2020 - NASA officially selects SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics to build its next-generation lunar lander to carry American astronauts to the Moon by 2024.
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