Today is Tuesday, April 30, the 120th day of 2002.<$> There are 245 days left in the year.

On this date<$>

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

In 1970, US President Nixon announced the United States was sending troops into Cambodia, an action that sparked widespread protest.

In 1975, the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces.

In 1990, hostage Frank Reed was released by his captives in Lebanon; he was the second American to be released in eight days.

In 1991, an estimated 125,000 people died as a cyclone struck the South Asian country of Bangladesh.

Thought for the Day

<*“In America, getting on in the world means getting out of the world we have known before.” — Ellery Sedgwick, American editor (1872-1960).