What happened today, and who was born/died

BIRTHS
04/30/1777
  Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician.
04/30/1870
  Franz Lehar, composer, (Merry Widow, Rose de Noel)
04/30/1912
  Eve Arden, Our Miss Brooks
EVENTS
04/30/
  Walpurgis Night - Witches' Sabbath
04/30/1789
  George Washington inaugurated as first president of the US
04/30/1798
  Department of the Navy established.
04/30/1803
  US more than doubles its size thru the Louisiana Purchase.
04/30/1900
  Hawaii becomes a US Territory
04/30/1939
  NBC/RCA make first US demo of TV at opening of NY World's Fair.
04/30/1947
  Boulder Dam renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover
04/30/1948
  Organization of American States (OAS) charter signed in Bogot .
04/30/1973
  Nixon announces resigtration of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al
04/30/1975
  US forces evacuated Vietnam; Saigon surrenders
04/30/1980
  Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London

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