January 30

January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 335 days remaining, (336 in leap years).

Events

• 1649 – King Charles I of England is beheaded.
• 1790 – The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
• 1820 – Edward Bransfield lands on the Antarctic mainland.
• 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 Marie 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.
• 1944 – United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands.
• 1945 – KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff sunk in the Baltic Sea – deadliest maritime disaster in known history killing roughly 9,000.
• 1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is murdered by 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 Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch series of a surprise attacks in South Vietnam.
• 1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.
• 1972 – Bloody Sunday: United Kingdom forces kill thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland.
• 1972 – Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth.
• 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 anaemia.
• 1996 – Suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed while in line for his unemployment benefit.
• 1999 – A 7-year old boy dies of choking on a Pokémon Power Bouncer ball toy.
• 2000 – In a dramatic finish to Super Bowl XXXIV, the St. Louis Rams defeat the Tennessee Titans, 23–16.
• 2002 – Slobodan Milosevic 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.

Births

• 1616 – Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler
• 1687 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, master builder (d. 1753)
• 1754 – John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
• 1781 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
• 1861 – Charles Martin Loeffler, American composer
• 1882 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States (d. 1945)
• 1894 – King Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
• 1901 – Rudolf Caracciola, race car driver (d. 1959)
• 1902 – Nikolaus Pevsner, art historian (d. 1983)
• 1911 – Roy Eldridge, jazz musician (d. 1989)
• 1911 – Hugh Marlowe, American actor (d. 1982)
• 1912 – Barbara W. Tuchman, historian (d. 1989)
• 1914 – David Wayne, actor (d. 1995)
• 1914 – John Ireland, actor (d. 1992)
• 1915 – John Profumo, former British cabinet minister
• 1915 – Joachim Peiper, German military leader (d. 1976)
• 1920 – Delbert Mann, director
• 1922 – Dick Martin, comedian
• 1924 – Lloyd Alexander, writer
• 1925 – Douglas Engelbart, computer scientist
• 1925 – Dorothy Malone, actress
• 1927 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden 1969-1976, 1982-1986 (d. 1986)
• 1928 – Hal Prince, stage producer, director
• 1930 – Gene Hackman, actor
• 1930 – Magnus Malan, former South African minister
• 1930 – Don Brockett, actor (d. 1995)
• 1931 – Allan W. Eckert, historian, naturalist, and author
• 1931 – Shirley Hazzard, Australian-American author
• 1932 – Knock Yokoyama, Japan]]ese comedian and politician
• 1933 – Louis Rukeyser, finanal journalist
• 1935 – Richard Brautigan, writer and poet (d. 1984)
• 1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, actress
• 1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
• 1939 – Alejandro Toledo, Peruvian President
• 1941 – Gregory Benford, author and scientist
• 1941 – Dick Cheney, American politician
• 1943 – Marty Balin, musician
• 1945 – Michael Dorris, author (d. 1997)
• 1947 – Les Barker, English poet
• 1947 – Steve Marriott, musician (The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
• 1951 – Phil Collins, musician
• 1951 – Charles S. Dutton, American actor
• 1955 – Judith Tarr, author
• 1957 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
• 1959 – Jody Watley, American singer
• 1962 – Mary Kay Letourneau, American teacher
• 1974 – Christian Bale, actor
• 1980 – Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
• 1987 – Richard Fortunato, mime
• 1990 – Jake Thomas, actor

Deaths

• 1030 – William V, Duke of Aquitaine
• 1649 – King Charles I of England (beheaded) (b. 1600)
• 1836 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
• 1867 – Emperor Komei of Japan.
• 1889 – Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria (b. 1858) and Baroness Mary Vetsera (b. 1871), at Mayerling
• 1948 – Mohandas Gandhi, Indian politician (b. 1869)
• 1948 – Orville Wright, aviation pioneer
• 1958 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
• 1963 – Francis Poulenc, composer (b. 1899)
• 1980 – Professor Longhair, King of New Orleans music (b. 1918)
• 1982 – Lightnin' Hopkins, blues musician
• 1991 – John Bardeen, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics twice (b. 1908)
• 1991 – John McIntire, actor
• 1994 – Pierre Boulle, author (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Gerald Durrell, naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter (b. 1925)
• 1996 – Dan Duva, boxing promoter
• 1999 – Huntz Hall, actor (b. 1919)
• 1999 – Ed Herlihy, narrator
• 2001 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (b. 1911)
• 2002 – Daniel Pearl, journalist (one possible date) (b. 1963)

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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