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Historical Events on April 30

  • Christopher Columbus

    1492

    Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.

  • Nicaragua

    1838

    Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.

  • French Foreign Legion

    1863

    A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.

  • Albert Einstein

    1905

    Albert Einstein writes his thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen ("A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions").

  • World War II

    1943

    World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.

  • Nevada

    1947

    In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam for the second time.

  • Bogotá, Colombia

    1948

    In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.

  • Iraq

    2004

    U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

  • Yekaterinburg

    2008

    Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.

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