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• Today is Tuesday, April 30, the 120th day of 2013. There are 245 days left in the year.
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Today's Highlight in History:
• On April 30, 1973, President Richard Nixon announced the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean, who was actually fired.
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• On this date:
• In 1789, George Washington took office in New York as the first president of the United States.
• In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for 60 million francs, the equivalent of about $15 million.
• In 1812, Louisiana became the 18th state of the Union.
• In 1863, the design of the Great Seal of the Confederate States of America was approved by the Confederate Congress.
• In 1900, engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad died in a train wreck near Vaughan, Miss., after staying at the controls in a successful effort to save the passengers.
• In 1938, a precursor to the cartoon character Bugs Bunny first appeared in the Warner Bros. animated short "Porky's Hare Hunt."
• In 1939, the New York World's Fair officially opened with a ceremony that included an address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• In 1945, as Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.
• In 1968, New York City police forcibly removed student demonstrators occupying five buildings at Columbia University.
• In 1983, blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters died in Westmont, Ill., at age 68.
• In 1988, Gen. Manuel Noriega, waving a machete, vowed at a rally to keep fighting U.S. efforts to oust him as Panama's military ruler.
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