January 30 Events |
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| January 30th, 2003 (January 30 2003) | Event | Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage. | |
| January 30th, 2000 (January 30 2000) | Event | Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169. | |
| January 30th, 1996 (January 30 1996) | Event | Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit. | Gallagher Quotes |
| January 30th, 1996 (January 30 1996) | Event | Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake. | |
| January 30th, 1995 (January 30 1995) | Event | Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease. | |
| January 30th, 1994 (January 30 1994) | Event | Peter Leko becomes the youngest chess grand master. | |
| January 30th, 1989 (January 30 1989) | Event | The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes. | |
| January 30th, 1982 (January 30 1982) | Event | Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner". | |
| January 30th, 1979 (January 30 1979) | Event | Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo. | |
| January 30th, 1976 (January 30 1976) | Event | George H. W. Bush becomes the 11th director of the CIA. | George H. W. Bush Quotes |
| January 30th, 1972 (January 30 1972) | Event | Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland. | |
| January 30th, 1972 (January 30 1972) | Event | Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations. | |
| January 30th, 1969 (January 30 1969) | Event | The Beatles last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police. | |
| January 30th, 1968 (January 30 1968) | Event | Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks in South Vietnam. | |
| January 30th, 1964 (January 30 1964) | Event | Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched. | |
| January 30th, 1962 (January 30 1962) | Event | Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan. | |
| January 30th, 1956 (January 30 1956) | Event | American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. | Martin Luther Quotes |
| January 30th, 1948 (January 30 1948) | Event | Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. | |
| January 30th, 1945 (January 30 1945) | Event | The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000 people. | |
| January 30th, 1945 (January 30 1945) | Event | World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp. | |
| January 30th, 1945 (January 30 1945) | Event | World War II: Hitler gives his last ever public address, a radio address on the 12th anniversary of his coming to power. (A subsequent address on February 24 was not read by Hitler.) | |
| January 30th, 1944 (January 30 1944) | Event | World War II: United States troops land on Majuro. | |
| January 30th, 1943 (January 30 1943) | Event | World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Islandied in TheUSS Chicago (CA-29) is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes. | |
| January 30th, 1943 (January 30 1943) | Event | Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: The Nazi Gestapo commences mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp are ordered to undress and are shot with a machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7,000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv. | |
| January 30th, 1933 (January 30 1933) | Event | Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| January 30th, 1930 (January 30 1930) | Event | The world s first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR. | |
| January 30th, 1925 (January 30 1925) | Event | The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul. | |
| January 30th, 1913 (January 30 1913) | Event | The United Kingdom s House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill. | |
| January 30th, 1911 (January 30 1911) | Event | The destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba. | |
| January 30th, 1911 (January 30 1911) | Event | The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy. | |
| January 30th, 1889 (January 30 1889) | Event | Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling. | |
| January 30th, 1862 (January 30 1862) | Event | The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. | |
| January 30th, 1858 (January 30 1858) | Event | The first Halle concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Halle Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra. | |
| January 30th, 1847 (January 30 1847) | Event | Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco. | |
| January 30th, 1841 (January 30 1841) | Event | A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. | |
| January 30th, 1835 (January 30 1835) | Event | In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson. | Andrew Jackson Quotes |
| January 30th, 1826 (January 30 1826) | Event | The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world s first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened. | |
| January 30th, 1820 (January 30 1820) | Event | Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica. | |
| January 30th, 1806 (January 30 1806) | Event | The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened. | |
| January 30th, 1790 (January 30 1790) | Event | The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne. | |
| January 30th, 1661 (January 30 1661) | Event | Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years. | Oliver Cromwell Quotes |
| January 30th, 1649 (January 30 1649) | Event | King Charles I of England is beheaded. | |
| January 30th, 1648 (January 30 1648) | Event | Eighty Years War: The Treaty of Munster is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain. | |
