This is a list of selected April 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
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Blurb | Reason |
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Walpurgis Night in various European countries | refimprove section |
Persian Gulf National Day in Iran; | multiple issues |
Children's Day in Mexico; | refimprove section |
1006 – SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, first appeared in the constellation Lupus. | needs cleanup |
1671 – Croatian Ban Petar Zrinski was executed for treason for his role in the attempted Croatian-Hungarian rebellion of 1664–70. | refimprove section |
1825 - Creek chief William McIntosh was executed by being stabbed in the heart for having signed a treaty ceding much of remaining Creek lands to the United States. | refimprove section |
1900 – American railroad engineer Casey Jones became a folk hero when he was the only fatality in a train collision in Vaughan, Mississippi. | refimprove section |
1939 – At the New York World's Fair, NBC, the first major broadcast network in the United States, inaugurated its regularly scheduled television service with a broadcast of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's opening day ceremonial address. | outdated |
1948 – Twenty-one countries signed a charter in Bogotá, Colombia, establishing the Organization of American States. | refimprove section |
1980 – Iranian Arab separatists captured the Iranian Embassy in London, beginning a six-day siege. | better saved for May 5 (conclusion of the siege, which is much more famous) |
1993 – Monica Seles, the number-one ranked women's tennis player at the time, was stabbed in the back during a match by a man obsessed with her rival Steffi Graf. | refimprove section |
2004 – The New Yorker magazine posted an article and supporting pictures online, postdated May 10, detailing accounts of torture and abuse by American personnel of prisoners held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. | expand section |
Kirsten Dunst (b. 1982) | refimprove section |
April 30: Consumer Protection Day in Thailand; Reunification Day in Vietnam
Marie of the Incarnation (d. 1672) · Eugen Bleuler (b. 1857) · Roger L. Easton (b. 1921)
This is a list of selected April 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
Use only ONE image at a time
Blurb | Reason |
---|---|
Walpurgis Night in various European countries | refimprove section |
Persian Gulf National Day in Iran; | multiple issues |
Children's Day in Mexico; | refimprove section |
1006 – SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, first appeared in the constellation Lupus. | needs cleanup |
1671 – Croatian Ban Petar Zrinski was executed for treason for his role in the attempted Croatian-Hungarian rebellion of 1664–70. | refimprove section |
1825 - Creek chief William McIntosh was executed by being stabbed in the heart for having signed a treaty ceding much of remaining Creek lands to the United States. | refimprove section |
1900 – American railroad engineer Casey Jones became a folk hero when he was the only fatality in a train collision in Vaughan, Mississippi. | refimprove section |
1939 – At the New York World's Fair, NBC, the first major broadcast network in the United States, inaugurated its regularly scheduled television service with a broadcast of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's opening day ceremonial address. | outdated |
1948 – Twenty-one countries signed a charter in Bogotá, Colombia, establishing the Organization of American States. | refimprove section |
1980 – Iranian Arab separatists captured the Iranian Embassy in London, beginning a six-day siege. | better saved for May 5 (conclusion of the siege, which is much more famous) |
1993 – Monica Seles, the number-one ranked women's tennis player at the time, was stabbed in the back during a match by a man obsessed with her rival Steffi Graf. | refimprove section |
2004 – The New Yorker magazine posted an article and supporting pictures online, postdated May 10, detailing accounts of torture and abuse by American personnel of prisoners held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. | expand section |
Kirsten Dunst (b. 1982) | refimprove section |
April 30: Consumer Protection Day in Thailand; Reunification Day in Vietnam
Marie of the Incarnation (d. 1672) · Eugen Bleuler (b. 1857) · Roger L. Easton (b. 1921)