April 30: Day of the Week
April 30, 2023 is the 120th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 245 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is dimanche.
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Here’s the April calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
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April 30 Historical Event(s)
- 1871The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
- 1900Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
- 1900Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
- 1904The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1938The animated cartoon short Porky’s Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
- 1943World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.
- 1948In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
- 1963The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company’s refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
- 1980Accession of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
- 2008Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.
Who were born on April 30?
- 1553Louise of Lorraine, queen of France (d. 1601)
- 1664François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709)
- 1895Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat and writer (d. 1960)
- 1923Percy Heath, American jazz musician (Modern Jazz Quartet) (d. 2005)
- 1938Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak film director
- 1945Michael Smith, American astronaut (d. 1986)
- 1947Mats Odell, Swedish politician
- 1956Lars von Trier, Danish film director
- 1960David Miscavige, American cult leader
- 1978Tom Fulp, animator and founder of Newgrounds
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