| General Information for April 30th 2016 |
| There are 3 public holidays today. |
| Day 121 of 2016 |
| 245 days left in 2016 |
| Week 17 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 1975 - The last ten US marines are evacuated from the Tan Son Nhut air base in Saigon, one of the final events of the Vietnam War. |
| 1973 - Nixon makes the first of three speeches on the Watergate scandal - an event mentioned in the lyrics of Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start The Fire'. |
| 1968 - Battle at Dai Do, part of the Vietnam War. |
| 1943 - One of the greatest anti-Nazi deceptions of the Second World War, 'Operation Mincemeat', takes place. |