What Happened On This Day ? April 30
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1993
CERN announces that World Wide Web protocols will remain free
By offering the software required to operate a web server with an open license, the European organization ensured its dissemination, and the WWW flourished.
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1993
Tennis ace Monica Seles is stabbed by an obsessed fan
Although the stab wound proved to be relatively harmless, the psychological ramifications meant that Seles did not play any tournaments for over two years.
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1975
The fall of Saigon marks the end of the Vietnam War
As Communist forces gained control of Saigon, South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh, who had only been in office for 2 days, surrendered unconditionally.
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1916
Germany and its World War I allies become the first countries to use daylight saving time (DST)
The rationale was to save energy to aid the war effort. Other European countries, such as the United Kingdom, first introduced DST later that year.
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1789
George Washington becomes the first U.S. President
Washington took the oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City. In the United States, he is venerated as one of the country's founding fathers.
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1982
Kirsten Dunst
American actress, singer
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1959
Stephen Harper
Canadian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
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1956
Lars von Trier
Danish director, screenwriter
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1933
Willie Nelson
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor
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1777
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
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1983
Muddy Waters
American singer-songwriter, guitarist
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1980
Luis Munoz Marin
Puerto Rican poet, politician, 1st Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
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1945
Adolf Hitler
Austrian/German politician, Chancellor of Germany
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1883
Edouard Manet
French painter
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1030
Mahmud of Ghazni