Today in History - History - April 30th

1939NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of NY World's Fair

1961SF Giant Willie Mays hits 4 HRs in a game

1974US President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings

1961Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize

1972Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Open

1789George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of the United States of America

1863-5/1] Battle of Snyder's Bluff, Virginia (part of the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War): General Sherman beaten by Confederate forces

2008Heidi Klum launches her clothing line for Jordache

1973Paul McCartney releases "Red Rose Speedway" including "My Love"

1064German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland

1959Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada

1959Paul Gross, Calgary Alberta, Canadian actor, director, and writer

1893Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister (d. 1946)

1905John Peters Humphrey, Hampton, New Brunswick, Canadian jurist and human rights advocate (Universal Declaration on Human Rights)

1961Isiah Thomas, Chicago Illinois, NBA forward (Detroit Piston; 1990 NBA playoff MVP)

1777Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematician

1998Boyzone singer Ronan Keating (21) weds model Yvonne Connolly at the Caribbean isle of Nevis

1990Game show host Alex Trebek (49) weds real-estate mogul Jean Currivan (27) at the Regency Club in Los Angeles

1988Actor Tom Hanks (31) weds actress Rita Wilson (31)

1923Golfer champion Walter Hagen (30) weds Edna Straus at the Hotel Biltmore in New York

1945MLB catcher Roy Campanella (23) weds Ruthe Willis

1994Soccer great Pele (53) weds psychologist Assiria Seixas Lemos (36)

2008Singer-songwriter Mariah Carey (41) weds actor and rapper Nick Cannon (31) at Bahamian estate on the island of Windermere

1932Cricketer Donald Bradman (23) weds Jessie Martha Menzies at St Paul's Anglican Church in Burwood, Sydney

1995Country singer Rosanne Cash (39) weds record producer John Leventhal (42)

1989Actor and comedian Robin Williams (37) weds nanny Marsha Garces at a private ceremony in Lake Tahoe, California

1983Muddy Waters, US blues singer/guitarist (Mad Love), dies at 70

1974Agnes Moorehead, American actress (Endora-Bewitched), dies of uterine cancer at 73

1983George Balanchine, Russian/US ballet composer/choreographer, dies from Creutzfeldt—Jakob disease at 79

1945Adolf Hitler, German Dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56