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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