Being a history buff, April 30 has always stuck in my mind as the day Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide together. It was also the day the Vietnam War officially ended. Curious, I poked around a bit to see what else happened today, and was rewarded with a long list of interesting facts. I hope you enjoy, because they were fun to research!
1999 – Chandra Levy, former intern to California Congressman Gary Conduit, was last seen in Washington. (Her body was discovered 13 months later in a park.)
1997 – Ellen DeGeneres’s character comes out of the closet on the sitcom Ellen.
1992 – The last episode of the Cosby Show aired.
1991 – A tropical cyclone hit Bangladesh; roughly 138,000 people were killed.
1983 – Michael Jackson's song "Beat It" was number one on the Billboard music chart.
1983 – Muddy Waters – an American musician – died.
1975 – The Vietnam War officially ended with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh.
1945 – Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide together in Hitler`s bunker in Berlin after being married for less than a day.
1939 – The 1939 New York World's Fair opened.
1883 – Edouard Manet – a painter – died.
1803 – The Louisiana Purchase transaction took place. (The USA purchased the territory of Louisiana from France for $15 million, which doubled the size of the US. It was also waaayyyy underpriced, if you ask me!)
1789 – George Washington took the oath to become the first elected President of the United States in New York City.
1662 – Mary II of England was born.
1492 – Spain gave Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
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