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Events

• 1838 (188 years ago) Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
• 1905 (121 years ago) Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
• 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.
• 1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours.
• 1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Soviet soldiers raise the first Soviet flag over the Reichstag. The Victory Banner will be raised the next day.
• 1961 (65 years ago) K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
• 1979 (47 years ago) Eruption of Mount Marapi: Mount Marapi, a complex volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, erupts. Between 80 and 100 people are killed.
• 2004 (22 years ago) U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers committing war crimes against Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

Births

• 1777 (249 years ago) Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and physicist (died 1855)
• 1883 (143 years ago) Jaroslav Hašek, Czech soldier and author (died 1923)
• 1893 (133 years ago) Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician, 14th German Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs, executed Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946)
• 1946 (80 years ago) King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden,
• 1949 (77 years ago) António Guterres, Portuguese academic and politician, 114th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th Secretary-General of the United Nations
• 1959 (67 years ago) Stephen Harper, Canadian economist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
• 1982 (44 years ago) Kirsten Dunst, American actress
• 1985 (41 years ago) Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model

Deaths

• 65 (1961 years ago) Lucan, Roman poet (born 39)
• 1632 (394 years ago) Sigismund III Vasa, Swedish-Polish son of John III of Sweden (born 1566)
• 1883 (143 years ago) Édouard Manet, French painter (born 1832)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German politician and author, dictator of Nazi Germany (born 1889)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Eva Braun, German photographer and office and lab assistant, wife of Adolf Hitler (born 1912)
• 1989 (37 years ago) Sergio Leone, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1929)
• 2011 (15 years ago) Ernesto Sabato, Argentinian physicist, author, and painter (born 1911)
• 2024 (2 years ago) Paul Auster, American writer and film director (born 1947)

All 374 events, births and deaths of April 30