Today in History: April 30, Monica Seles attacked during tennis match
The present day is Wednesday April the th day of There are days left in the year In contemporary times in history On April top-ranked women s tennis player Monica Seles was stabbed in the back during a match in Hamburg Germany by a man who described himself as a fan of second-ranked German performer Steffi Graf The man was convicted of causing grievous bodily injury but was given only a two-year suspended sentence Also on this date In George Washington took the oath of office at Federal Hall in New York as the first president of the United States Related Articles For selected Americans the end of the Vietnam War after Saigon fell years ago is still deeply felt In current times in History April Los Angeles riots after Rodney King verdict This day in History April Abu Ghraib torture images made citizens Nowadays in History April deadly tornadoes strike the Southeast The present day in History April the Chernobyl nuclear plant catastrophe In the United States completed its purchase of the square mile Louisiana Territory from France for million francs the equivalent of about million the acquisition roughly doubled the size of the United States In engineer John Luther Casey Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad died in a train wreck near Vaughan Mississippi staying at the controls to slow his guest train before it struck a stalled train near an approaching station Jones was the only fatality of the accident In as Soviet troops approached his Berlin bunker Adolf Hitler took his own life as did Eva Braun whom Hitler married the previous day In as the Watergate shame deepened President Richard Nixon publicized the resignations of top aides H R Haldeman and John Ehrlichman Attorney General Richard G Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean though Dean was truly fired by Nixon In the Vietnam War ended as the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces In the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN released that the World Wide Web which was invented at CERN four years earlier by Tim Berners-Lee was free for anyone to use and circulated its source code to the society domain This day s Birthdays UN Secretary-General Ant nio Guterres is Filmmaker Jane Campion is Filmmaker Lars von Trier is Basketball Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas is Actor Johnny Galecki is Actor Sam Heughan is Actor Kunal Nayyar is Rapper Lloyd Banks is Actor Kirsten Dunst is Basketball Hall of Famer Seimone Augustus is Actor Gal Gadot is Actor Dianna Agron is Actor Ana de Armas is Rapper-producer Travis Scott is
