April 30<\/p>\n
311 \u2013 Under the Edict of Toleration by Emperor Galerius, the persecution of Christians under an edict of Emperor Diocletian is ended in the Eastern Roman Empire.<\/p>\n
1492 \u2013 13 days after acceding to his demands and granting him his titles, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella formally present Viceroy, Governor General and Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Don Christopher Columbus, his commission of exploration.<\/p>\n
1789 \u2013 On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first President of the United States under the Constitution<\/em>. In November 1781, John Hanson became the first President of the United States in Congress Assembled, under the Articles of Confederation<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1803 \u2013 The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million.<\/p>\n 1812 \u2013 The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.<\/p>\n 1885 \u2013 Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York’s first state park; Niagara Falls<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1900 \u2013 Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States.<\/p>\n 1927 \u2013 The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, the first women’s federal prison in the U.S.<\/p>\n 1939 \u2013 NBC begins regular scheduled television broadcasting in New York City, televising President Roosevelt’s N.Y. World’s Fair opening day ceremonial address.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 Completing Operation Mincemeat <\/em>during World War II, British Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph<\/em> surfaces near Huelva, Spain to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a Royal Marine courier and carrying false invasion plans for Greece and Sardinia, as a ruse for the invasion of Sicily.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 In the F\u00fchrerbunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler takes cyanide and then blows his brains out with a pistol, while Eva Braun simply takes cyanide to commit suicide.<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013 In Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.<\/p>\n 1956 \u2013 Former Vice President, under President Truman, and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley collapses dies during a speech at the Washington and Lee university in Lexington,Virginia.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 President Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned due to the Watergate Burglary scandal.<\/p>\n 1975 \u2013 The U.S. completes a hasty evacuation of Saigon while Communist forces gain control of the city. The Vietnam War ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president D\u01b0\u01a1ng V\u0103n Minh.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 The unfinished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State building to become the tallest building in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 30 311 \u2013 Under the Edict of Toleration by Emperor Galerius, the persecution of Christians under an edict of Emperor Diocletian is ended in the Eastern Roman Empire. 1492 \u2013 13 days after acceding to his demands and granting him his titles, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella formally present Viceroy, Governor General and Admiral … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67354"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92317,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67354\/revisions\/92317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}