Today's selected anniversaries: 30th April 2023

Today's selected anniversaries: 30th April 2023

1943:

Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph began Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming invasion of Sicily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat

1963:

A refusal by the Bristol Omnibus Company and the Transport and General Workers' Union to permit the employment of black bus crews led to a bus boycott in Bristol, England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Bus_Boycott

1975:

American forces completed a helicopter evacuation (aircraft and evacuees pictured) of U.S. citizens, South Vietnamese civilians and others from Saigon, just before North Vietnamese troops captured the city,  ending the Vietnam War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Saigon

2021:

A crowd crush during the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Israel, killed 45 people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Meron_crowd_crush