In History – First toy advertised on TV

TODAY IN HISTORY - April 30th:

1952 - Mr Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television
1974 - US President Richard Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
1981 - 16th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell & George Jones
1997 - 42 million watch Ellen DeGeneres admit she is gay

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1965 - Adrian Pasdar, Pittsfield Mass, actor
1982 - Kirsten Dunst, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, American actress (Interview with the Vampire, Spider-Man)
1995 - Country singer Rosanne Cash (39) weds record producer John Leventhal (42)
2011 - Actor Lorenzo Lamas (53) weds model Shawna Craig at Casa Dorada Resort in Cabo, San Lucas

GOODBYE TO:

1945 - Adolf Hitler, German Dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56
1945 - Eva Braun, German mistress/wife of Hitler, commits suicide at 33
1974 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (Endora-Bewitched), dies of uterine cancer at 73

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