History for April 30

History for April 30 - On-This-Day.com:
Cornelius Vanderbilt 1898, Robert Shaw 1916, John (Johnny) Horton 1925 


Cloris Leachman 1926 - Actress ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Phyllis"), Willie Nelson 1933 - Musican, Kirsten Dunst 1982 - Actress ("Spider-Man") 


1789 - George Washington took office as first elected U.S. president. 


1803 - The U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million. 


1900 - Casey Jones was killed while trying to save the runaway train "Cannonball Express." 


1943 - The British submarine HMS Seraph dropped 'the man who never was,' a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain. 


1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. They had been married for one day. One week later Germany surrendered unconditionally. 


1947 - The name of Boulder Dam, in Nevada, was changed back to Hoover Dam. 


1993 - Monica Seles was stabbed in the back during a tennis match in Hamburg, Germany. The man called himself a fan of second- ranked Steffi Graf. He was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm and received a suspended sentence. 


1998 - United and Delta airlines announced their alliance that would give them control of ¹/₃ of all U.S. passenger seats.