Today in History - History - April 30th

1996US President Clinton approves the sale of $227 million of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; US gas prices are at their highest levels in 5 years

1989Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo of Madagascar

1961Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship

1987NY Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game

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

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

1972Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies Golf Open

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

1938Bradman scores 258 Aust v Worcs, 293 mins, 33 fours 1 five

1967Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational

1777Carl Friedrich Gauss, world's great mathematician

1982Kirsten Dunst, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, American actress (Interview with the Vampire, Spider-Man)

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

1959Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada

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

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

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

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

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

1937General Douglas MacArthur (57) marries 2nd wife Jean Faircloth

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

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

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

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

1945MLB catcher Roy Campanella (23) weds Ruthe Willis

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

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

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

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

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