30th April

The events happened on 30th April are :



1789 : George Washington inaugurated : George Washington, the first president of the United States, was inaugurated this day in 1789 in Federal Hall in New York City, addressing his constituency on “the proceedings of a new and free government.”



1980 : Queen Beatrix ascended the throne of The Netherlands.



1975 : The South Vietnamese capital of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) fell to North Vietnamese troops during the Vietnam War.



1945 : German dictator Adolf Hitler and his wife committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin.



1939 : The National Broadcasting Company made the first public television broadcast in the United States, at the New York World's Fair.



1900 : American railroad engineer Casey Jones, later made famous in song, died in a train wreck.



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