Today In History

Sun., April 30, 2000

In 1803: The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.

In 1900: A legend was born as engineer John Luther “Casey” Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad died in a wreck near Vaughan, Miss., after staying at the controls in an effort to save the passengers.

In 1945: As Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.

In 1973: President Nixon announced the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, along with Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean.

In 1975: The South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces.

In 1991: An estimated 125,000 people died as a cyclone struck Bangladesh.

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