On April 30
On April 30, 3 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including Fall of Saigon and reunification of Vietnam (1975).
On this day
On 30 April 1975, North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, ending the Vietnam War.
On 30 April 1993 the European physics laboratory CERN, at the urging of the Web's inventor Tim Berners-Lee, signed a declaration placing the World Wide Web's underlying software and protocols into the public domain, making the technology…
By a treaty signed in Paris and dated 30 April 1803, the United States bought the vast Louisiana Territory from Napoleonic France for roughly $15 million, acquiring some 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River.