April 30
1917
The American Friends Service Committee was founded.
1975
The war in Vietnam ended as the government in Saigon announced its unconditional surrender to the Vietcong and Vietnam is reunited after 21 years of U.S. domination and 100 years of French colonial rule.
Last helicopter out of Saigon 4/30/75
1977
1,415 arrested in occupation of Seabrook nuclear power plant, New Hampshire
1996
About 120 activists were arrested over the next eight days in Washington, D.C., in support of a White House fast by Sister Diana Ortiz. Ortiz was kidnapped, tortured, & raped by U.S.-trained & supported Guatemalan Army officers in 1989. She was fasting to demand that the U.S. government release information on her assailants.
Sister Diana Ortiz
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 