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30th April

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1945: Hitler commits suicide


Nazi leader Adolf Hitler commits suicide. Before beginning his assault on Europe, Hitler had assured his followers that the Third Reich would last 1,000 years. Twelve years later, in the closing weeks of the Allied liberation, Hitler retreated into a bunker beneath the Chancellery as his empire collapsed. One day after he married his mistress, Eva Braun, Hitler and his new bride committed suicide by swallowing cyanide capsules. Red Amy soldiers found charred remains believed to be their bodies in a bomb crater two days later.

1980

Armed terrorists sieze the Iranian Embassy in London taking 20 hostages and threatening to blow up the building.

1980

In the Netherlands, Queen Juliana abdicates on her 71st birthday in favour of her daughter, Beatrix.

1975

Official end to the Vietnam War when the South Vietnamese Government surrenders to North Vietnam. Fighting had continued despite the signing of a peace treaty in 1973.

1974

England football manager Sir Alf Ramsey, manager of the England team which won the World Cup in 1966, is sacked.

1948

The Landrover is introduced at the Amsterdam Motor Show.

1945

German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker beneath the Chancellery building in Berlin. His mistress, Eva Braun, whom he'd married the day before, dies alongside him after taking a cyanide pill.

1938

FA Cup is televised on British TV for the first time.

1907

King Edward VII of Britain visits Rome and the Vatican.

1789

George Washington is sworn in as the first President of the United States of America.

1946

King Gustav of Sweden.

1943

Singer Bobby Vee.

1909

Princess Juliana of the Netherlands.

1945

German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker beneath the Chancellery building in Berlin. His mistress, Eva Braun, whom he'd married the day before, dies alongside him after taking a cyanide pill.

1900

Legendary American engine driver Casey Jones dies trying to slow his engine, the Cannonball Express, before it crashes into another train. His courage inspires a song which earns the composers $250,000.