04-30-2005, 06:45 AM
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April 30th
1777 ~ Birthday of Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician, Astronomer & Physicist.
1789 ~ George Washington took the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States from the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City.
1877 ~ Birthday of Alice B. Toklas, Muse and Brownie Chef.
1883 ~ Death of Édouard Manet, Impressionist Painter.
1916 ~ Birthday of Claude Shannon, the "father of information theory”
1938 ~ Birthday of Larry Niven, Science Fiction author.
1945 ~ Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide after being married for one day.
1948 ~ The Land Rover is introduced.
1975 ~ The war in Vietnam same to an end as the South Vietnamese government in Saigon announced its unconditional surrender to the Vietcong.
1993 ~ CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to everyone.
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