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Today in History: April 30 Crossword Puzzle

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A puzzle looking at some significant events and birthdays which took place on April 30. Enjoy!
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      1. One avoiding detection
      5. April 30, 1943: "The ____ never was" (3,3) body with false invasion plans dropped into the Med
      9. "Certainement!" from Jean Ribault and colonists arriving in Florida, April 30, 1562
      11. American author Annie Dillard (b. April 30, 1945, Pittsburgh, PA), "____ at Tinker Creek" (1975)
      12. 12A and 4D: April 30, 1849; Giuseppe Garibaldi helps ____ a French attack on ____ (first word)
      13. Freudian topic
      15. Like our numerals
      17. Nationality of Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician born April 30, 1777 in Brunswick
      18. Nine-day devotions
      19. Had debts
      22. Golden rule preposition
      24. "Semper fi" group (2,7; first word init.)
      25. 25A & 22D: April 30, 1803, Louisiana Purchase Treaty signed; ____ by France to the ____ (1st word)
      27. 30D & 27A: April 30, 1970; US troops ____ Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese ____ bases (2nd word)
      30. Nationality of Giuseppe Garibaldi (see 12A/4D)
      32. Church instruments, possibly made by 33A
      33. Big name in keyboards and motorcycles
      34. U.S. territory divided in 1889 (abbr.)
      36. April 30, 1909: Queen ____ of the Netherlands born in The Hague
      37. April 30, 1980: Terrorists seize the ____ Embassy in London
      38. Game pieces
      39. NFL team from the city where a bridge named after 40A opened April 30, 1931 (2,4; first word init.)
      40. April 30, 1789: ____ Washington inaugurated in New York City as the first US president

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      2. April 30, 1968: 24A attacked a North Vietnamese division in the ____ (hamlet) of Dai Do
      3. Beagle passenger
      4. 12A and 4D: April 30, 1849; Giuseppe Garibaldi helps ____ a French attack on ____ (second word)
      5. Joan of art
      6. City near Vesuvius
      7. Saintly sort, like Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest born in Reims, April 30, 1651 (4,3)
      8. Musical instrument, subject of Jane Campion's (b. April 30, 1954, Wellington, NZ) 1993 film (1,5)
      10. Taken care of (4,2)
      14. Giuseppe Garibaldi (see 12A/4D) led this type of fighter (var.)
      16. April 30, 1945: Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler ____ suicide in his bunker
      17. Take exception to
      20. Try to win
      21. Flop
      22. 25A & 22D: April 30, 1803, Louisiana Purchase Treaty signed; ____ by France to the ____ (2nd, init.)
      23. Captain ____ Moore (b. 30 April 1920, Keighley, Yorkshire) fundraiser with his 100th Birthday Walk
      25. Macedonian capital
      26. Within the law
      28. Wandering
      29. Pines
      30. 30D & 27A: April 30, 1970; US troops ____ Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese ____ bases (1st word)
      31. 1998 Winter Olympics site
      34. April 30, 1864: Work begins on ____ (water barriers) as part of the Civil War's Red River campaign
      35. April 30, 1946: ____ Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden born in Haga Palace, Solna