What happened on 30 April?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1789 Presidency of George Washington First US President; set precedents incl. two-term limit and Cabinet.
2. 1945 Death of Hitler / Fall of Berlin Hitler shoots himself in the Führerbunker; Soviets raise the flag over the Reichstag.
3. 1803 Louisiana Purchase Napoleon sells the vast Louisiana territory to the United States, doubling the young republic's size overnight.
4. 1975 Fall of Saigon North Vietnamese tanks crash through the gates of the Presidential Palace; iconic helicopter evacuations from the US embassy roof.
5. 1897 Thomson discovers the electron J.J. Thomson identifies the electron.
6. 1993 World Wide Web released into the public domain CERN places the Web's underlying software in the public domain, royalty-free, igniting the explosion of the internet age.
7. 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville Lee's tactical masterpiece against a Union force more than twice his size, but at the cost of Stonewall Jackson — mortally wounded by his own pickets after his flanking march. The
8. 1904 Japan crosses the Yalu At the river between Korea and Manchuria, Japan's First Army throws back a Russian force in the war's first major land battle — the first time in the modern era an Asian army has b
9. 1939 New York World's Fair The 'World of Tomorrow' fair showcases television, superhighways and a streamlined future on the eve of war.