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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_30" title="April 30">April 30</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_311" title="AD 311">311</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletianic_Persecution" title="Diocletianic Persecution">Diocletianic Persecution</a></b> of Christians officially ended in the eastern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943" title="1943">1943</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> submarine <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Seraph_(P219)" title="HMS Seraph (P219)">HMS <i>Seraph</i></a> began <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat" title="Operation Mincemeat">Operation Mincemeat</a></b> to deceive Germany about the upcoming <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Sicily" title="Allied invasion of Sicily">invasion of Sicily</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963" title="1963">1963</a> – A refusal by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Omnibus_Company" title="Bristol Omnibus Company">Bristol Omnibus Company</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_and_General_Workers%27_Union" title="Transport and General Workers' Union">Transport and General Workers' Union</a> to permit the employment of black bus crews led to <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Bus_Boycott" title="Bristol Bus Boycott">a bus boycott</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a>, England.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a> – American forces completed <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frequent_Wind" title="Operation Frequent Wind">a helicopter evacuation</a></b> of U.S. citizens, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam" title="South Vietnam">South Vietnamese</a> civilians and others from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_City" title="Ho Chi Minh City">Saigon</a>, just before <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Vietnam" title="North Vietnam">North Vietnamese</a> troops <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Saigon" title="Fall of Saigon">captured the city</a></b>,  ending the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021" title="2021">2021</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Meron_crowd_crush" title="2021 Meron crowd crush">A crowd crush</a></b> killed 45 people during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillula_of_Rabbi_Shimon_bar_Yochai" title="Hillula of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai">the annual pilgrimage</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Rabbi_Shimon_bar_Yochai" title="Tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai">tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai</a> in Israel.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_of_the_Incarnation_(Ursuline)" title="Marie of the Incarnation (Ursuline)">Marie of the Incarnation</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1672); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Stowe" title="Emily Stowe">Emily Stowe</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1903); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Dunst" title="Kirsten Dunst">Kirsten Dunst</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1982)</p>