April 30

In literary history

• 1859Charles Dickens launched A Tale of Two Cities in the first issue of his new periodical All the Year Round. It was the best of openings; the magazine would run for thirty-six years.

Writers born on April 30

• Jaroslav Hašek (1883)

The Daily Canon for April 30

The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (1967).