On This Day: April 30 — Century Dispatch

Four Dead in Lightning Strike—Just Days Before Lindbergh Changes Everything

South Bend news-times (South Bend, Ind.)

1926: When Maryland Counties Had Money to Burn (And Pirate Tales to Tell)

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

Scandal Rocks Kansas GOP Convention as Paris Braces for May Day Violence

The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)

Senator Allen vs. the Press: How Populists Fought Back Against Fake News in 1896

The Nebraska independent (Lincoln, Nebraska)

When Streetcar Workers Got a Win: Labor Peace in 1886 Washington

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Vanderbilt on His Deathbed: The Railroad King's Last Battle and $500,000 Gift to the South

The sun (New York [N.Y.])

One Year After Appomattox: How Baltimore Sold Hair Dye Instead of War (April 1866)

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

April 30, 1865: Rebel ram races toward New Orleans with Jefferson Davis's gold as Lincoln conspiracy unravels

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

"God Defend the Right": Grant's Grand Gamble in Virginia Begins—But Disaster Strikes Elsewhere (April 30, 1864)

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

Inside the Confederate War Room: April 1863—When Everything Started Falling Apart

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

April 30, 1862: New Orleans Under Siege—Martial Law, Currency Collapse, and Slavery Still for Sale

New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])

War in One Week: How Richmond Merchants Panicked on April 30, 1861

Richmond daily Whig (Richmond, Va.)

New Orleans in 1856: When 23-Mile Rail Lines and Steamships to Mexico Defined a Booming Port City

New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])

A Naked Masked Man, a Collapsing Theater, and Madrid's Carnival Chaos—April 1846

Gazeta de Puerto-Rico (San Juan, P.R.)