Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 30
April 30: Walpurgis Night in various European countries; Victory Day in Vietnam.
- 711 - Umayyad troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad landed at Gibraltar, beginning the Moorish invasion of Iberia.
- 1789 - George Washington (pictured) took office as the first President of the United States.
- 1945 - Martin Bormann and Heinz Linge found Adolf Hitler dead in the Führerbunker.
- 1948 - The Organization of American States was established in Bogotá, Colombia.
- 1975 - North Vietnamese troops captured Saigon, ending the Vietnam War.
- 1991 - A powerful tropical cyclone struck Chittagong, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless in Bangladesh.