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April 30

 * 711 - Islamic conquest of Iberia: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
 * 1429 - Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.
 * 1794 - The Battle of Boulou is fought, in which French forces defeated the Spanish under General Union.
 * 1863 - Mexican forces attacked the French Foreign Legion in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
 * 1943 - World War II: Operation Mincemeat – The submarine HMS Seraph surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.