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| On This Day |
| April |
| 30 April |
| Llywellyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of Wales, dies (Aberconwy) |
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1240 |
| Edward IV (of York) restored to the throne |
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1471 |
| Battle of Ravenna (Italy): French win but their leader Gaston de Foix is killed |
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1512 |
| Donato Bramante (d'Agnolo), architect, dies 8 years into the building of St. Peter's Basilica, Rome |
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1514 |
| Sir Thomas Wyatt, conspirator, executed |
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1554 |
| Battle of Selby: Sir Thomas Fairfax wins |
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1644 |
| William and Mary crowned joint sovereigns |
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1689 |
| Treaty of Utrecht signed: France cedes Newfoundland and Gibraltar to Britain |
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1713 |
| Treaty of Fontainbleu signed; Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates and is banished to Elba; Louis XVIII accedes to the French throne |
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1814 |
| Uganda declared a British protectorate |
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1894 |
| Fred Gaisberg of the Gramophone Company makes the first recordings of Caruso |
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1902 |
| French aviator Gustave Hamel flies from Dunkirk to Calais and back in 90 minutes |
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1913 |
| George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion opens in London |
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1914 |
| International Labour Organisation founded in association with the League of Nations |
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1919 |
| Popeye appears for the first time, in one of William Hearst's newspapers |
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1929 |
| Stresa Conference (Britain, France and Italy) begins |
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1935 |
| German aircraft make a heavy Blitz raid on Coventry |
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1941 |
| President Truman strips General Douglas Macarthur of all his commands in the Far East |
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1951 |
| Billy Wright, of Wolverhampton Wanderers and England, becomes the first footballer to win 100 international caps |
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1959 |
| Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem |
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1961 |
| Bob Dylan makes his first live appearance, supporting John Lee Hooker at Gerde's Folk City, Greenwich village |
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1961 |
| Apollo 13 launched from Cape Kennedy |
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1970 |
| Skeleton found in Berlin confirmed to be that of Martin Bormann, Hitler's deputy |
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1974 |
| Idi Amin flees to Libya as Tanzanian and Ugandan rebel forces close on Kampala |
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1979 |
| Bobby Sands wins the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election |
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1981 |
| UEFA readmits English clubs to European competitions |
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1989 |
| Iraq–bound 'supergun' seized in customs at Teesport |
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1990 |
| Israeli helicopters open fire on suspected Hisbollah headquarters in Beirut; Fire at Dusseldorf airport kills 16 and injures 150; Jessica Dubroff's attempt to become the youngest pilot to fly across America ends in death at Cheyenne, Wyoming for herself (7), her father and her instructor |
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1996 |
| Dutch and British scientists announce that they have made a frog 'float' in air using an extremely powerful magnet |
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1997 |
| India provokes international concern by test firing its Agni II ballistic missile |
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1999 |
| High Court rules against historian David Irving in his libel case against Penguin Books and author Deborah Lippstadt who called him a "Hitler partisan" who had denied the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz |
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2000 |
| Hansie Cronje sacked as South African cricket captain after admitting accepting between $10,000 and $15,000 from an Indian bookmaker to fix a match |
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2000 |
| HM Government announces that the foot and mouth epidemic has peaked, two months before forecast (average 43 cases per day, week commencing 25th March) |
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2001 |
| Australia beat American Samoa 31–0 in a World Cup qualifier |
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2001 |
| Colin Powell arrives in Jerusalem on a mission to broker a ceasefire, after a fortnight of increasing tension between Israelis and Palestinians that has left hundreds dead |
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2002 |
| British backpacker Caroline Stuttle, 19, found dead after being robbed and thrown from a bridge near Bundaberg, Queensland |
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2002 |
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