Monica Sele was the top women’s player heading into 1993, having won the French Open three consecutive years and both the U.S. Open and Australian Open in consecutive years.
Everything, however, changed following an incident that shocked the tennis world on April 30, 1993. During a quarterfinal match with Magdalena Maleeva in Hamburg, a 38-year-old […]

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The European Organization for Nuclear Research, commonly known as CERN, is the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the border between France and Switzerland.
The World Wide Web began as a CERN project called ENQUIRE, initiated by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 1989. Based on the concept of […]

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.On 30 April 1980, Beatrix became Queen of the Netherlands when her mother abdicated. She approaches her role as queen with more formality than Queen Juliana, and many admire her professionalism.
While the monarchy remains popular, in recent years some members of the Dutch media have openly criticized the royal family. Journalists have also published “tabloid” […]

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The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) by the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), on 30 April 1975.
The event, along with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh marked the […]

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Although Agnes Moorehead appeared in more than 70 films and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than 30 years, she is probably most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the television series Bewitched.
While rarely playing leads in films, Moorehead’s skill at character development […]

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Watergate is a general term for a series of political scandals that began with five men being arrested after breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel complex in Washington, D.C
April 30, 1973, Nixon was forced to ask for the resignation of two of his most influential aides, H. R. […]

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The Organization of American States (OAS) is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States.
Its members are the thirty-five independent states of the Americas. The Ninth International Conference of American States was held in Bogotá between March and May 1948 and led by U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, a meeting which led to […]

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By 30 April 1945, the Soviets with artillery support launched an attack on the Reichstag, (the original parliament building of the German Empire) in Berlin
However, because of German entrenchments and support from 88 mm guns two kilometres away on the Berlin Zoo flak tower it was not until that evening that the Soviets were able […]

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On 30 April 1945, after intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were within a block or two of the Reich Chancellory, Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself while simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule.
Hitler’s body and that of Eva Braun (his mistress whom he had married the day before) were put in a bomb crater, doused […]

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Operation Mincemeat was a highly successful British deception plan during World War II which convinced the German High Command (OKW) that the Allies would invade the Balkans and Sardinia instead of the island of Sicily, the actual objective.
The operation called for making the Germans believe that they had, by accident, intercepted highly classified documents detailing […]

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