January 30

From Academic Kids Online Encyclopedia

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

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Events

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.
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.
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 - P�ter L�k� 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 Pok�mon 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.