Today in History for 30th April 2024

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Historical Events

1506 - Philip of Burgundy and England sign trade agreement
1900 - The "Hawaiian Organic Act" is enacted by US Congress making Hawaii a US territory
1944 - NY Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs
1971 - 25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee beat Baltimore Bullets in 4 games
1984 - Strong winds cause a 30 min delay in Toronto Blue Jays game
1985 - "Shoah", French documentary about the Holocaust, directed by Claude Lanzmann, starring Richard Glazar and Raul Hilberg, premieres in Paris

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Famous Birthdays

1651 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest and saint of the Catholic Church, born in Reims, Champagne, Kingdom of France (d. 1719)
1723 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and naturalist (Ornithologie), born in Fontenay-le-Comte (d. 1806)
1857 - Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (introduced the term schizophrenia to describe the disorder previously known as dementia praecox), born in Zollikon, Switzerland (d. 1940)
1858 - Mary Dimmick Harrison, US First lady (1889-93) as second wife of the 23rd President Benjamin Harrison, born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania (d. 1948)
1941 - Johnny Farina, American rocker (Santo and Johnny), born in Brooklyn, New York
1997 - Ayaan Chawla, Indian entrepreneur

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Famous Deaths

1630 - Ercole Porta, Italian composer, dies at 44
1792 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, British statesman who claimed to have invented the sandwich, dies at 73
1792 - Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer and lawyer, dies at 36
1926 - Bessie Coleman, American aviator and 1st African-American woman and Native American to hold a pilot license, dies in a plane crash at 34
1983 - Muddy Waters [McKinley Morganfield], American blues singer and guitarist ("Mannish Boy"; "Got My Mojo Working"), dies of heart failure, while fighting cancer, at 70
2006 - Lawrence Patrick, Biomechanics Professor, crash test subject

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