Today In Patriots History April 30, 1985: NE trades down for a LS; 49ers take Jerry Rice with pick

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Today in US/World History
April 30 Events​

April 30, 1952:
Mr. Potato Head becomes the first toy advertised on TV. The original kit, which included 30-stick-on facial features, sold for 98 cents - supply your own spud (or other vegetables). The ad helped Mr. Potato Head sell more than one million units its first year.

1562:
Jean Ribault and colonists arrive in Jacksonville Florida, the first French colonists in North America




1789:
George Washington is sworn in as the first American president and delivers the first inaugural speech at Federal Hall in New York City, in front of a crowd of hundreds of people.

1803:
Representatives of the United States and Napoleonic France complete negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, a massive land sale that doubles the size of the young American republic. What was known as Louisiana Territory comprised most of modern-day United States between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains, with the exceptions of Texas, parts of New Mexico, and other pockets of land already controlled by the US. A formal treaty for the Louisiana Purchase, pre-dated to April 30, was signed two days later.

1808:
First practical typewriter is finished by Italian Pellegrino Turri




1859:
Charles ****ens' "A Tale of Two Cities" is first published in the literary periodical "All the Year Round" in weekly installments until November 26

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1864:
New York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee




1897:
English physicist J.J. Thomson announced that he had discovered the electron, which helped revolutionize the knowledge of atomic structure; he later was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.




1900:
Railroad engineer Casey Jones, later made famous in song, died in a train wreck in Mississippi.

President William McKinley signed the Hawaiian Organic Act, which made Hawaii a territory of the United States.

1904:
The Ice Cream Cone makes its debut at St. Louis World's Fair, invented by Ernest A. Hamwi




1925:
Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million, plus $50 million for charity



1939:
The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) made the first television broadcast to the American public at the New York World's Fair, launching regular broadcasting and showcasing the medium's future. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's opening address on this date became the first presidential speech televised, viewed on RCA TRK-12 sets. The exhibit featured the "Radio Living Room of Tomorrow" and a popular, transparent "Phantom"

1945:
Holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Eva Braun, whom he had married a day earlier, also died. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s nightmarish dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich.

1945:
"Arthur Godfrey Time" begins a 27 year run on CBS radio. It would end on this same date in 1972.




1948:
The Land Rover, a British-made all-terrain vehicle that will earn a reputation for its use in exotic locales, debuts at an auto show in Amsterdam




1961:
Eastern Airlines begin their first "shuttle flights" between Washington, D.C., Boston, Newark and New York City. The shuttle became part of the fabric of business and government travel in the northeast corridor. No reservations were needed; passengers just showed up at the terminal, paid for a ticket - and if the plane was full, another would soon roll out.

1973:
President Richard Nixon addresses the nation and announces the resignation of his closest advisers, HR Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, as the fallout from Watergate begins to suffocate him. It would still be another year and a half before Tricky **** resigned.




1975:
The Vietnam War officially ended when North Vietnamese forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon. The Fall of Saigon prompted a massive helicopter evacuation of American personnel and South Vietnamese allies and resulted in the unification of Vietnam.

1977:
More than 2,000 protesters occupy the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant construction site in New Hampshire; 1,414 of these activists are arrested in what becomes one of the largest mass arrests in American history.

Anti-nuclear demonstrators set up tents and toted signs reading “Split Wood, Not Atoms” and “Go Fishing, Not Fission” as they occupied the property for nearly a day. State police were deployed to dissolve the occupation, and the advocates were charged with trespassing on the site of a proposed nuclear energy plant and detained in National Guard armories for up to two weeks.

The demonstrators, known as the Clamshell Alliance, opposed the construction of the $2 billion Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. Work on the plant had already been halted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission following the Federal Environmental Protection Agency’s concerns that the plant’s cooling system could endanger marine life.

2009:
Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to restructure under government guidance following failed creditor negotiations and a 48% sales slump. The restructuring saw Fiat take over management, acquiring a 20% stake in the "new" Chrysler, while the U.S. and Canadian governments provided financing in exchange for ownership stakes.

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