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On This Day, April 30

  • 2021: Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.
  • 2014: A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others.
  • 2013: Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
  • 2012: An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 108 people. At least 150 more are missing and presumed dead.
  • 2009: Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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