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 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 preventative 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
1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann , master builder (d. 1753 )
1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso , poet (d. 1838 )
1861 - Charles Martin Loeffler , American composer
1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt , President of the United States (d. 1945 )
1894 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943 )
1901 - Rudolf Caracciola , driver of racing cars (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 , Japanese comedian and politician
1933 - Louis Rukeyser , financial journalist
1935 - Richard Brautigan , writer and poet (d. 1984 )
1937 - Vanessa Redgrave , actress
1937 - Boris Spassky , chess grand master
1941 - Gregory Benford , author and scientist and Jim Benford
1941 - Dick Cheney , 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 , pedophile teacher
1974 - Christian Bale , actor
1980 - Wilmer Valderrama , American actor
1987 - Richard Fortunato , mime
1990 - Jake Thomas , actor (Lizzie McGuire Deaths
1030 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine
1649 - King Charles I of England (beheaded) (b. 1600 )
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
January 29 - January 31 - December 30 -- listing of all days
