Today in History: April 30, Monica Seles attacked during tennis match

In contemporary times is Wednesday April the th day of There are days left in the year At present in history On April top-ranked women s tennis sportsman Monica Seles was stabbed in the back during a match in Hamburg Germany by a man who described himself as a fan of second-ranked German sportsman Steffi Graf The man was convicted of causing grievous bodily injury but was given only a two-year suspended sentence Also on this date In George Washington took the oath of office at Federal Hall in New York as the first president of the United States Related Articles GM recalls nearly Cadillac Chevrolet and GMC cars due to engine failure risks First accuser takes the witness stand at Harvey Weinstein s MeToo retrial Black female WWII unit Six Triple Eight receives congressional honor Trump s first days by the numbers How he compares to latest presidents Ex-officer says he regrets his failure to stop the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols In the United States completed its purchase of the square mile Louisiana Territory from France for million francs the equivalent of about million the acquisition roughly doubled the size of the United States In engineer John Luther Casey Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad died in a train wreck near Vaughan Mississippi staying at the controls to slow his tourist train before it struck a stalled train near an approaching station Jones was the only fatality of the accident In as Soviet troops approached his Berlin bunker Adolf Hitler took his own life as did Eva Braun whom Hitler married the previous day In as the Watergate outrage deepened President Richard Nixon released the resignations of top aides H R Haldeman and John Ehrlichman Attorney General Richard G Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean though Dean was indeed fired by Nixon In the Vietnam War ended as the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces In the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN communicated that the World Wide Web which was invented at CERN four years earlier by Tim Berners-Lee was free for anyone to use and disclosed its source code to the citizens domain In current times s Birthdays UN Secretary-General Ant nio Guterres is Filmmaker Jane Campion is Filmmaker Lars von Trier is Basketball Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas is Actor Johnny Galecki is Actor Sam Heughan is Actor Kunal Nayyar is Rapper Lloyd Banks is Actor Kirsten Dunst is Basketball Hall of Famer Seimone Augustus is Actor Gal Gadot is Actor Dianna Agron is Actor Ana de Armas is Rapper-producer Travis Scott is