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On this day — April 30

A hand-curated thread of what happened on this date, across centuries.

2021

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Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.

2014

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A bomb blast in Ürümqi

China kills three people and injures 79 others.

2013

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Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.

2012

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An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 108 people

At least 150 more are missing and presumed dead.

2009

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Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

2009

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Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn

Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.

2008

Science

Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.

2004

Politics

U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers committing war crimes against Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

2000

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Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.

1999

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Neo-Nazi David Copeland carries out the last of his three nail bombings in London at the Admiral Duncan gay pub, killing three people and injuring 79 others.

1994

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Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy.

1993

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CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.

1989

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The Monkseaton shootings occur in Tyne and Wear, England

One killed, 16 injured.

1982

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The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta

India.

1980

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Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.