History Blog

April 30

Happy Birthday RIP “Eve Arden”(Eunice Quedens 1908–1990) “Al Lewis”(Alexander Meister 1923–2006) Gary Collins(1938–2012) ; Cloris Leachman–93 Richard Morea(“Burt Young)–79 Adrian Pasdar–54 Jeffrey Timmons–46 Johnny Galecki–44 Kunal Nayyar–38 Kirsten Dunst–37 Dianna Agron–33 ; 1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor ; 1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (credited with the waffle-style ice cream cone invention/creation and first mass sales of it in USA) ; 1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free