On April 30th in US Political History
Part III
On April 30th in 1939 The New York World’s Fair, billed as a look at "the world of tomorrow," officially opened. NY Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia mandated that the city's nude dancers cover up during the fair. The cover-up evolved into the G-string and later the thong. The General Motors exhibit was titled Futurama. Philo T. Farnsworth premiered his television at the fair.
On April 30th in 1945 Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun, in his Fuhrerbunker as Russian troops approached Berlin. Karl Donitz became his successor. Their bodies were rumored to have been cremated and their remains hastily buried in a shell hole within the Reich Chancellery garden just hours before Berlin's fall. A few days later a Soviet officer showed British troops Hitler's probable grave. In 1970 Russia’s KGB reportedly ordered Hitler’s remains to be exhumed, ground to powder and thrown into the nearest river.
On April 30th in 1947 President Truman signed a measure officially changing the name of Boulder Dam to Hoover Dam.
On April 30th in 1968 US Marines attacked a division of North Vietnamese in the village of Dai Do.
On April 30th in 1969 US troops in Vietnam peaked at 543,000. Over 33,000 had already been killed.
On April 30th in 1970 President Nixon announced to a national TV audience that the United States was sending troops into Cambodia “to win the just peace that we desire.” The action that sparked widespread protest. U.S. troops invaded Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese Army base areas and to attack Communist border sanctuaries. Calling the joint U.S.-South Vietnamese operation "indispensable," some 32,000 American and 48,000 South Vietnamese troops captured large caches of supplies, but most Communist forces had already been withdrawn. A storm of protest against expansion of the war swept the United States.
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