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April 30

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In 1789, George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States during a ceremony in New York.

In 1945, Adolph Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide in a Berlin bunker, ending the reign of the Third Reich in Germany and Europe.

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"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of gevernment, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."
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President George Washington (1732-1799), in his first inaugural address.