By The Associated Press
                - Today is Friday, April 30, the 120th day of 1999. There are 245 days
                  left in the year.

                - On April 30, 1939, the New York World's Fair officially opened.
                - In 1789, George Washington took office in New York as the first
                  president of the U.S.
                - In 1803, the U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France.
                - In 1812, Louisiana became the 18th state of the Union.
                - In 1900, Hawaii was organized as a U.S. territory.
                - In 1900, engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones of the Illinois Central
                  Railroad was killed in a wreck near Vaughan, Miss., after staying at
                  the controls in an effort to save the passengers.
                - In 1945, as Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf
                  Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.
                - In 1970, President Nixon announced the U.S. was sending troops into
                  Cambodia, an action that sparked widespread protest.
                - In 1973, Nixon announced the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman
                  and John Ehrlichman, along with Attorney General Richard G.
                  Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean.
                - In 1975, the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist
                  forces.
                - In 1991, an estimated 125,000 people died as a cyclone struck
                  Bangladesh.
                - Ten years ago: President Bush attended a parade in New York City
                  celebrating the bicentennial of the American presidency.
                - Five years ago: The counting of ballots began in South Africa's
                  first all-race elections. Some 100,000 men, women and children
                  fleeing ethnic slaughter in Rwanda crossed into neighboring
                  Tanzania.
                - One year ago: President Clinton questioned the conduct of Whitewater
                  prosecutor Kenneth Starr and dismissed Republican challenges to his
                  own character as "high-level static" during a news conference.
                  United and Delta airlines formed an alliance that would control
                  one-third of all U.S. passenger seats. A man set himself on fire and
                  shot himself to death on a Los Angeles area freeway in a scene
                  captured on live TV.

                *Happy Birthday*
                - Princess Juliana of the Netherlands is 90.
                - Actor Al Lewis is 89.
                - Actress Cloris Leachman is 73.
                - Singer Willie Nelson is 66.
                - Talk show host Gary Collins is 61.
                - Actor Burt Young is 59.
                - Singer Bobby Vee is 56.
                - Actress Jill Clayburgh is 55.
                - Actor Perry King is 51.
                - Singer Merrill Osmond is 46.
                - Movie director Jane Campion is 45.
                - Actor Paul Gross ("Due South") is 40.
                - Country musician Robert Reynolds (The Mavericks) is 37.
                - Rapper Turbo B (Snap) is 32.
                - Rock musician Clark Vogeler (Toadies) is 30.
                - Rhythm-and-blues singer Chris "Choc" Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) is
                  28.
                - Rock singer J.R. Richards (Dishwalla) is 27.