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30 April 2022
Holidays, observances, history and sky information for this date.
Holidays
No listed India public holiday for this date.
Observances
No UN observance in the current list for this date.
Selected anniversaries
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Historical events
History
2021 - Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.Multi-casualty crush incident in Israel at public religious event
History
2014 - A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others.Bomb-and-knife attack in Xinjiang, China
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2013 - Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.King of the Netherlands since 2013
History
2012 - An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 108 people. At least 150 more are missing and presumed dead.2012 public transport disaster in Dubri, Assam, India
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2009 - Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.American subsidiary of automaker Stellantis
History
2009 - 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.Vehicle ramming in Apeldoorn, Netherlands
History
2008 - 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.City in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
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2004 - U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers committing war crimes against Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.2004 American military scandal
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2000 - Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.Declaration that a deceased person is an officially recognized saint
History
1999 - 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.Series of terror attacks in the British capital
Notable births
Born
2002 - Anna Cramling, Spanish-Swedish chess playerSwedish chess player (born 2002)
Born
1999 - Jorden van Foreest, Dutch chess grandmasterDutch chess grandmaster (born 1999)
Born
1999 - Krit Amnuaydechkorn, Thai actor and singerThai actor and singer (born 1999)
Notable deaths
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Sky
Moon phase
New Moon
0.6% illuminated
Lunar age: 28.8 days
Sun zodiac
Taurus
10.13 degrees
Constellation: Aries
Moon zodiac
Taurus
6.09 degrees
Constellation: Aries
Astronomy events
Eclipse
Partial Solar EclipseGlobal solar eclipse. Visibility depends on geographic location.