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On April 30

On April 30, 3 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including Fall of Saigon and reunification of Vietnam (1975).

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30 April 1975 (reunified 1976)Fall of Saigon and reunification of VietnamMilitary & conflict

On 30 April 1975, North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, ending the Vietnam War.

30 April 1993CERN releases the World Wide Web into the public domainScience, technology & invention

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…

30 April 1803United States completes the Louisiana PurchasePolitics & governance

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.

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