April 30 birthdays & history

Famous people born on April 30

• 1777Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and physicist
• 1949António Guterres, Portuguese academic and politician, 114th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th Secretary-General of the United Nations
• 1982Kirsten Dunst, American actress
• 1985Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model
• 1956Lars von Trier, Danish director and screenwriter
• 1916Claude Shannon, American mathematician and engineer
• 1992Marc-André ter Stegen, German footballer
• 1901Simon Kuznets, Belarusian-American economist, statistician, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1988Ana de Armas, Cuban actress
• 1967Philipp Kirkorov, Bulgarian-born Russian singer, composer and actor

What happened on April 30

• 1006SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, first appeared in the constellation Lupus.
• 1789George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City.
• 1803The United States purchased France's claim to the Louisiana Territory for 80 million francs, or less than US$.03 per acre ($.07/ha).
• 1812The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
• 1838Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
• 1883New York governor Grover Cleveland signed legislation that led to the creation of Niagara Falls State Park, the United States' first state park.
• 1885Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
• 1897British physicist J. J. Thomson and his team announce the discovery of the electron.
• 1900Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
• 1927Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first two celebrities to make imprints of their hands and feet in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.
• 1994Riverdance was performed for the first time, as the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest.
• 2000Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun whose apparitions of Jesus inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, was canonized by Pope John Paul II.

Also observed on April 30

• Armed Forces Day (Georgia)
• Camarón Day (French Foreign Legion)
• Children's Day (Mexico)
• Consumer Protection Day (Thailand)
• Honesty Day (United States)
• International Jazz Day (UNESCO)