January 30
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January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 335 days remaining after January 30 until the end of the year (336 in leap years).
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[change] Events
- 1648 – The Treaty of Münster is signed, ending the Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain.
- 1649 – King Charles I of England is beheaded.
- 1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is formally executed – after having been dead for two years.
- 1790 – The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
- 1820 – Edward Bransfield lands on the Antarctic mainland.
- 1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey and mainland Wales, is opened.
- 1835 – A mentally ill man named Richard Lawrence attempts to assassinate President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol -- the first assassination attempt against a President. Both of Lawrence's pistols misfire, and Jackson proceeds to beat his would-be assassin with his cane.
- 1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
- 1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
- 1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling. How they died remains a mystery.
- 1900 – United Kingdom forces fighting Boers in South Africa ask for reinforcements.
- 1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
- 1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
- 1913 – House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill.
- 1925 – Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
- 1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
- 1933 – The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger radio series airs on station WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1942 - World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in present-day Indonesia.
- 1944 – United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands.
- 1945 – The Wilhelm Gustloff sinks in the Baltic Sea in the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000.
- 1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
- 1948 – 1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
- 1962 – Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1964 – Ranger 6 is launched by NASA. Its mission is to carry television cameras and to crash-land on the moon.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: The Tết Offensive begins when NLF forces launch series of a surprise attacks in South Vietnam.
- 1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
- 1972 – Bloody Sunday: United Kingdom British Paratroopers murder fourteen Roman Catholic civil rights /anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland- Bloody Sunday (1972)
- 1972 – Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1975 – First faroese stamp issued
- 1983 – Super Bowl XVII: The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins, 27-17, thus winning their first NFL championship since 1942.
- 1989 – The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
- 1994 – Péter Lékó becomes the youngest grand master in chess.
- 1994 – The Dallas Cowboys win their fourth Super Bowl title, 30-13 over the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVIII.
- 1995 – Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
- 1996 – Suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed while in line for his unemployment benefit.
- 2000 – Off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
- 2000 – In a dramatic finish to Super Bowl XXXIV, the St. Louis Rams defeat the Tennessee Titans, 23-16.
- 2002 – Slobodan Milošević accuses the United Nations war crimes tribunal of an "evil and hostile attack" against him.
- 2003 – Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.
- 2005 – Amid violence and threats to boycott the results, Iraq holds an election for its National Assembly, the country's first free election since 1953.
[change] Births
- 58 BC – Livia Drusilla, wife of Roman Emperor Augustus (d. 29)
- 133 – Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
- 1781 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
- 1816 – Nathaniel Prentice Banks, American politician (d. 1894)
- 1878 – Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian writer (d. 1940)
- 1882 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
- 1889 – Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and dramatist (d. 1937)
- 1894 – Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
- 1895 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi Party (d. 1936)
- 1899 – Max Theiler, South African virologist (d. 1972)
- 1901 – Rudolf Caracciola, German racing driver (d. 1959)
- 1911 – Roy Eldridge, American jazz musician (d. 1989)
- 1912 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
- 1915 – John Profumo, British politician (d. 2006)
- 1924 – Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
- 1927 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
- 1928 – Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
- 1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor
- 1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, British actress
- 1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
- 1938 – Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan
- 1941 – Dick Cheney, former Vice President of the United States
- 1949 – Peter Agre, American biologist
- 1951 – Phil Collins, British singer and musician
- 1955 – John Baldacci, American politician, former Governor of Maine
- 1959 – Irina Pudova, Yakut ballerina
- 1961 – Dexter Scott King, son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King
- 1962 – King Abdullah II of Jordan
- 1968 – Crown Prince Felipe of Spain
- 1974 – Christian Bale, British actor
- 1974 – Olivia Colman, British actress
- 1974 – Jemima Khan, British socialite
- 1975 – Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
- 1976 – Cristian Brocchi, Italian footballer
- 1980 – Wilmer Valderrama, American actor and producer
- 1981 – Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
- 1981 – Peter Crouch, English footballer
- 1984 – Kid Cudi, American Hip hop performer
- 1987 – Arda Turan, Turkish footballer
- 1990 – Jake Thomas, American actor
- 2005 – Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II of Jordan
[change] Deaths
- 1181 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
- 1384 – Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
- 1649 – King Charles I of England, Ireland and Scotland (b. 1600)
- 1730 – Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
- 1836 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
- 1867 – Emperor Komei of Japan (b. 1831)
- 1889 – Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (b. 1858)
- 1889 – Baroness Marie Vetsera, mistress of Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf (b. 1871)
- 1928 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish doctor, won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1867)
- 1948 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian spiritual leader and advocate of non-violence (assassinated) (b. 1869)
- 1948 – Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)
- 1951 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automobile engineer (b. 1875)
- 1958 – Ernst Heinkel, German engineer (b. 1888)
- 1969 – Georges Pire, Belgian monk (b. 1910)
- 1982 – Stanley Holloway, British actor (b. 1890)
- 1982 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
- 1991 – John Bardeen, American physicist (b. 1908)
- 1995 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (b. 1925)
- 1999 – Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2006 – Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
- 2007 – Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
- 2008 – Jeremy Beadle, British television presenter (b. 1948)
- 2009 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (b. 1932)
- 2009 – Sune Jonsson, Swedish author, filmmaker and photographer (b. 1930)
- 2011 – John Barry, British film score composer (b. 1933)
