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Events on April 30

• 1598 King Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, which grants religious freedom to Calvinist Protestants and ends the decades-long Huguenot Wars.
• 1789 Following his election on February 4, George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York.
• 1916 The German Empire and Austria-Hungary become the first countries worldwide to introduce daylight saving time in order to increase the number of hours of usable daylight.
• 1939 In the German Empire, the “Law on Tenancy Rights with Jews” enters into force. It abolishes tenant protection for Jews and initiates the process of ghettoization. German Jews must leave their homes and are concentrated in “Jew houses.”
• 1945 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, who had married him the day before, take their own lives in the Führerbunker. On the same day, the Red Army raises the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building in Berlin. During World War II, the US Army captures Munich, the former “Capital of the Movement.”
• 1967 In Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, the Phantasialand amusement park is opened as a fairy-tale forest in the former Berggeist mine.
• 1980 On her 71st birthday, Juliana of Orange-Nassau abdicates as Queen of the Netherlands. Her daughter Beatrix becomes her successor. April 30 becomes Queen’s Day.
• 1986 At the Grips Theater in Berlin, the musical Linie 1 is premiered.
• 1991 After around 33 years and the production of over 3 million cars, Sachsenring closes the Trabant plant in Zwickau.
• 1993 The World Wide Web, today’s multimedia component of the Internet based on HTML, is released worldwide for general use.
• 1993 The tennis player Monica Seles is the victim of an assassination attempt by the mentally disturbed Steffi Graf “fan” Günter Parche during a match against Magdalena Maleewa in Hamburg. The knife attack forces her to take a 27-month break.
• 1995 The Brent Spar oil storage and loading platform of the oil company Shell is occupied by Greenpeace activists to prevent it from being sunk in the North Sea.

Born on April 30

• 1863 Max Skladanowsky, Pioneer of film art in Germany
• 1870 Franz Lehár, Hungarian-Austrian composer
• 1883 Jaroslav Hašek, Czech writer
• 1893 Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician and war criminal
• 1931 Willy Harlander, German police officer, carpenter, organ builder, and Bavarian folk actor
• 1940 Burt Young, American actor
• 1961 Thomas Schaaf, German football player and coach
• 1981 Kunal Nayyar, British actor
• 1982 Lloyd Banks, American rapper
• 1990 Michael Schulte, German singer and songwriter

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „30. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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