TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2018

On this day in history: 0030 - Jesus of Nazareth was crucified.

1789 - George Washington took office as first elected US president.

1831 - Captain Collet Barker, original discoverer of the site for Adelaide, is killed by indigenous Australians. 1849 - The republican patriot and guerrilla leader Giuseppe Garabaldi repulsed a French attack on Rome.

1930 - The Soviet Union proposed a military alliance with France and Great Britain. 1938 - Happy Rabbit appeared in the cartoon Porky’s Hare Hunt. This rabbit would later evolve into Bugs Bunny. 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. 1953 - The British West Indian colonies agreed on the formation of the British Caribbean Federation that would eventually become a self-governing unit in the British Commonwealth. 1972 - The North Vietnamese launched an invasion of the South.

1975 - Communists North Vietnamese troops entered the Independence Palace of South Vietnam in Saigon. 11 Marines lifted off of the U.S. Embassy were the last soldiers to evacuate.

1991 - An estimated 125,000 people were killed in a cyclone that hit Bangladesh.

1993 - Monica Seles was stabbed in the back during a tennis match in Hamburg, Germany.

1998 - NATO was expanded to include Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The three nations were formally admitted the following April at NATO’s 50th anniversary summit. 2002 - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was overwhelmingly approved for another five years as president. 2006 - Two Tasmanian miners are found alive after being trapped underground for five days.