📜 This Day in History

April 30

• 311The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians officially ended in the eastern Roman Empire.
• 1803The United States purchased France's claim to the Louisiana Territory for 80 million francs, or less than US$.03 per acre ($.07/ha).
• 1927The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opened near Alderson, West Virginia, as the first federal prison for women in the United States.
• 1963A refusal by the Bristol Omnibus Company and the Transport and General Workers' Union to permit the employment of black bus crews led to a bus boycott in Bristol, England.
• 2000Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun whose apparitions of Jesus inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, was canonized by Pope John Paul II.
• 2021A crowd crush killed 45 people during the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Israel.

Born on this day

• 1777Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and physicist (died 1855)
• 1949António Guterres, Portuguese academic and politician, 114th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th Secretary-General of the United Nations
• 1959Stephen Harper, Canadian economist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
• 1982Kirsten Dunst, American actress