What is April 30?
{{calendar}} {{day}} It is the last day of the first third of the year. == Events == === Up to 1950 === * [[313]] &ndash; [[Battle of Tzillarum]]: Emperor [[Licinius]] defeats [[Maximinus II]] and unifies the Eastern [[Roman Empire]]. * [[711]] &ndash; [[Tariq ibn Ziyad]] reaches [[Gibraltar]], beginning [[Moors|Moorish]] rule in [[Spain]]. * [[1492]] &ndash; [[Spain]] gives [[Christopher Columbus]] his commission of exploration. * [[1557]] &ndash; [[Mapuche]] leader [[Lautaro]] is killed by Spanish forces at the [[Battle of Mataquito]] in [[Chile]] * [[1789]] &ndash; [[George Washington]] becomes the first [[President of the United States]]. * [[1802]] &ndash; The break of the Puentes [[Reservoir]] in [[Spain]] kills 608 people * [[1803]] &ndash; The [[US]] buys the [[Louisiana]] Territory from [[France]], more than doubling its land area. * [[1812]] &ndash; [[Louisiana]] becomes a state of the [[US]]. * [[1838]] &ndash; [[Nicaragua]] declares independence from the Central American Federation. * [[1863]] &ndash; A 65–man [[French Foreign Legion]] [[infantry]] patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican [[soldier]]s to nearly the last man at Hacienda Camaron, [[Mexico]]. * [[1871]] &ndash; Camp Grant Massacre in the [[Arizona]] [[Territory]]. * [[1885]] &ndash; [[Governor of New York]] [[David B. Hill]] signs [[legislation]] creating the Niagara Reservation near [[Niagara Falls]]. It is New York's first State Park. * [[1900]] &ndash; [[Hawaii]] becomes a [[US]] territory, with [[Sanford Dole]] as Governor. * [[1907]] &ndash; [[Honolulu]] becomes an independent [[city]]. * [[1908]] &ndash; [[Japan]]ese small [[cruise]]r ''Matsushima'' sinks after a munitions explosion near [[Taiwan]], killing 206 out of the 347 men on board. * [[1920]] &ndash; [[Peru]] becomes a signatory of the [[Buenos Aires Convention]]. * [[1927]] &ndash; [[Douglas Fairbanks]] and [[Mary Pickford]] become the first celebrities to leave their [[foot]]prints in [[concrete]] at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in [[Hollywood]]. * [[1927]] &ndash; Th