32 indexed achievements across recorded history.
Anne Hutchinson helped establish the settlement of Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island, becoming one of the founding figures of what would become Rhode Island.
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On April 30, 1789, Martha Washington became the United States' first First Lady.
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Pope Pius IX instituted the liturgical feast of Saint Catherine of Siena in the Roman Calendar.
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Alice Babette Toklas was born in San Francisco, California on April 30, 1877.
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Sarah Josepha Hale dies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after more than five decades as an influential writer and editor.
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Addams delivered her first public anti-war address at a Chicago Liberty meeting on April 30, 1899.
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Emily Stowe passed away on April 30, 1903, leaving a legacy in medicine and women's rights.
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Gerda Lerner was born on April 30, 1920, in Vienna, Austria.
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Millay was notified on April 30, 1923, that she'd won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
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Coleman died at age 34 when a mechanical failure caused her Curtiss Jenny biplane to flip during a rehearsal flight, throwing her from the open cockpit.
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Mary Pickford first to imprint stars' handprints at Grauman's Theatre.
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Bonnie Parker is arrested in Dallas after Clyde's attempt to steal a safe.
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Savage unveiled *Lift Every Voice and Sing* at the New York World’s Fair; she was the only Black artist commissioned.
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She headlined at the New York World's Fair, bringing her burlesque persona to a major national exposition audience.
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Beatrice Webb passed away on April 30, 1943, at her home in Liphook, Hampshire.
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On 30 April 1945, Lee Miller is photographed in Hitler’s Munich apartment bathtub, creating an iconic image that links Nazi atrocity to the Führer’s private space.
View detailsOn 30 April 1945, Lee Miller photographs the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp, creating some of the earliest widely known visual records of its atrocities.
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Michelle Janine Howard was born on April 30, 1960, at March Air Force Base.
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Jessie Redmon Fauset passed away on April 30, 1961, in Philadelphia.
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Miller departed Oakland on a solo Pacific ferry flight to Brisbane in a Piper Apache.
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On April 30, 1972, Alma Thomas's solo show opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, a landmark first for a Black woman artist.
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The WBCA established the Wade Trophy, named for Margaret Wade, awarded annually to the NCAA Division I women's basketball player of the year.
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Mercè Rodoreda died in Girona, Catalonia, on April 30, 1983, having returned to Catalonia after decades of exile.
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Seles was stabbed during a tournament match, severely affecting her career.
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Rhéaume won her second consecutive gold medal with Team Canada at the 1994 IIHF Women's World Championship.
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Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom character came out as gay, the first lead character to do so on U.S. network prime-time TV.
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Carol W. Greider receives the Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.
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"Mean Girls," a film written by Tina Fey, is released, highlighting her writing talent.
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Lois Jotter, botanist and Grand Canyon exploration pioneer, died on April 30, 2013, at age 99.
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Cox wins a Daytime Emmy for 'Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word' as executive producer, a first for an openly transgender person.
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Rice receives the Horatio Alger Award, recognizing her achievements overcoming adversity and her leadership in public service and education.
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