What happened on January 30? There are more than 256 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About January 30
January 30 is the 30th day of the year 2024. There are 336 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday. This day falls under the 5th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Phoenix, Arizona 85067 sunrise occured at 07:24 AM and sunset occured at 05:59 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aquarius. The modern birthstone for this month is Garnet while the mystical birthstone is Emerald.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 11 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (February 10, 2024).
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Historical Events For January 30
- 1048Protestantism: The villagers around today’s Baden-Baden elect their own priest in defiance of the local bishop.
- 1648Eighty Years’ War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
- 1649King Charles I of England is beheaded.
- 1661Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
- 1667The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
- 1703The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
- 1790The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
- 1806The 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.
- 1820Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
- 1826The 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.
- 1835In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
- 1841A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
- 1847Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
- 1858The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
- 1862The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
- 1889Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
- 1902The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
- 1911The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
- 1911The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
- 1913The United Kingdom’s House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
- 1925The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
- 1930New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 1933Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
- 1942World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.
- 1943World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
- 1944World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
- 1945World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
- 1945World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9,400 people.
- 1948Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
- 1956American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 1959ship MS, said to be the safest ship afloat and “unsinkable” like the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, killing all 95 aboard.
- 1960The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
- 1964In a bloodless coup, General Nguyen Khanh overthrows General Duong Van Minh’s military junta in South Vietnam.
- 1964Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
- 1969The Beatles’ last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
- 1971Carole King’s Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.
- 1972Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
- 1972Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1975The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
- 1979A Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
- 1982Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called “Elk Cloner”.
- 1989The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
- 1994Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
- 1995Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
- 1996Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
- 2000Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
Who Were Born On January 30?
- 133Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
- 1563Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
- 1615Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler; son of Pocahontas and John Rolfe (d. 1675)
- 1661Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)
- 1697Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773)
- 1720Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)
- 1754John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
- 1775Walter Savage Landor, English writer (d. 1864)
- 1781Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
- 1816Nathaniel Prentice Banks, American politician, 25th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)
- 1822Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
- 1832Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
- 1841Félix Faure, French politician (d. 1899)
- 1859Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
- 1861Charles Martin Loeffler, German-born composer (d. 1935)
- 1866Gelett Burgess, American literary humorist (d. 1951)
- 1873Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French painter (d. 1939)
- 1878Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
- 1882Franklin D. Roosevelt, American politician, 44th Governor of New York, and 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
- 1889Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and dramatist (d. 1937)
- 1890Bruno Kastner, German actor (d. 1932)
- 1894Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
- 1899Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1972)
- 1901Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
- 1902Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (d. 1983)
- 1910Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
- 1911Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989)
- 1912Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)
- 1912Francis Schaeffer, American theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
- 1912Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
- 1913Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener (d. 1988)
- 1914David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
- 1914John Ireland, Canadian actor (d. 1992)
- 1914Luc-Marie Bayle, French naval officer and artist (d. 2000)
- 1915Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976)
- 1915John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)
- 1917Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and motorsport journalist (d. 2008)
- 1918David Opatoshu, American television actor (d. 1996)
- 1919Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
- 1920Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
- 1920Delbert Mann, American film director (d. 2007)
- 1920Michael Anderson, English film director
- 1922Dick Martin, American comedian (d. 2008)
- 1923Walt Dropo, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- 1924Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
- 1925Dorothy Malone, American actress
- 1925Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist
- 1927Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (d. 2005)
- 1927Olof Palme, Swedish politician (d. 1986)
- 1928Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
- 1929Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and aid worker (d. 1996)
- 1930Gene Hackman, American actor
- 1930Magnus Malan, South African politician
- 1930Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
- 1930Sandy Amorós, Cuban baseball player (d. 1992)
- 1931Allan W. Eckert, American naturalist and author
- 1931John Crosbie, Canadian politician
- 1931Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author
- 1932Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
- 1933Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (d. 2006)
- 1935Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (d. 1984)
- 1936F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
- 1936Horst Jankowski, German popular pianist (d. 1998)
- 1936Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
- 1937Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
- 1937Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (d. 2005)
- 1937Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
- 1938Islam Karimov, Uzbekistani politician
- 1941Dick Cheney, American politician, 7th White House Chief of Staff, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming, 17th United States Secretary of Defense and 46th Vice President of the United States
- 1941Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
- 1941Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
- 1942Marty Balin, American musician
- 1943Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager
- 1945Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
- 1947Les Barker, English poet
- 1947Steve Marriott, English musician (Humble Pie, The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
- 1948Miles Reid, English mathematician
- 1948Nick Broomfield, English documentarian
- 1948Paul Magee, Irish IRA figure
- 1949Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel laureate
- 1950Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
- 1951Bobby Stokes, English former footballer (d. 1995)
- 1951Charles S. Dutton, American actor
- 1951Phil Collins, English musician
- 1952Doug Falconer, Canadian football player
- 1955Curtis Strange, American golfer
- 1955John Baldacci, American politician, 73rd governor of Maine
- 1955Judith Tarr, American author
- 1955Mychal Thompson, Bahamian basketball player
- 1956Darko Rundek, Croatian rock singer, songwriter, poet, actor and theatrical director
- 1956Jeremy Gittins, English actor
- 1956Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver
- 1957Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
- 1958Brett Butler, American actress and comedian
- 1959Jody Watley, American singer
- 1959Mark Eitzel, American singer and musician (American Music Club)
- 1960Alex Titomirov, Russian-born American businessman
- 1960Tony O'Dell, American actor
- 1961Dexter Scott King, son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
- 1962King Abdullah II of Jordan
- 1963Tina Malone, English actress
- 1964Otis Smith, American basketball player
- 1965Julie McCullough, American model and actress
- 1966Danielle Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967Jay Gordon, American musician
- 1968Prince Felipe of Spain
- 1968Tony Maudsley, British film actor
- 1968Trevor Dunn, American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs 3)
- 1969Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV actor
- 1971Darren Boyd, British actor
- 1971Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player
- 1972Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1972Lupillo Rivera, Mexican singer
- 1973Jalen Rose, American basketball player
- 1974Christian Bale, English actor
- 1974Jemima Khan, English socialite
- 1974Olivia Colman, English actress
- 1975Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
- 1975Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
- 1976Andy Milonakis, American comedian
- 1977Dan Hinote, American ice hockey player
- 1977Deltha O'Neal, American football player
- 1977Tom Malchow, American swimmer
- 1978Carmen Küng, Swiss curler
- 1978John Patterson, American baseball player
- 1979Trevor Gillies, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980Joãozinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1980Josh Kelley, American musician
- 1980Leilani Dowding, British model
- 1980Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor
- 1980Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
- 1981Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
- 1981Jonathan Bender, American basketball player
- 1981Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver
- 1981Peter Crouch, English footballer
- 1982DeSagana Diop, Senegalese basketball player
- 1982Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player
- 1982Mark Nwokeji, English footballer
- 1984Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player
- 1984Kid Cudi, American hip hop performer
- 1984Xi Zhang, American Painter
- 1985Trae Williams, American football player
- 1986Nick Evans, American baseball player
- 1986Sam Duckworth, British singer-songwriter
- 1987Arda Turan, Turkish footballer
- 1987Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler
- 1987Renato Santos, Brazilian footballer
- 1988Rob Pinkston, American actor
- 1989Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
- 1990Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress and singer
- 1990Jake Thomas, American actor
- 1990Luca Sbisa, Swiss ice hockey player
- 1995Thia Megia, American Idol season 10 finalist
- 2005Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II of Jordan
Who Died On January 30?
- 1030William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
- 1181Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
- 1384Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
- 1574Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
- 1606Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
- 1649King Charles I of England (b. 1600)
- 1730Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
- 1836Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
- 1849Jonathan Alder, American settler (b. 1773)
- 1858Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
- 1867Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
- 1869William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
- 1889Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (b. 1858)
- 1926Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
- 1928Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
- 1929La Goulue, French dancer (b. 1866)
- 1934Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
- 1948Arthur Coningham, New Zealand air commander (b. 1895)
- 1948Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Father of Nation, India (b. 1869)
- 1948Orville Wright, American aviator (b. 1871)
- 1951Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875)
- 1958Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b. 1888)
- 1958Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
- 1962Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
- 1963Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
- 1969Dominique Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
- 1980Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
- 1982Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
- 1984Lee McCall, South African bank robber (b. 1950)
- 1984Luke Kelly, Irish singer (The Dubliners) (b. 1940)
- 1987Harold Loeffelmacher, Six Fat Dutchmen leader and polka musician (b. 1905)
- 1989Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, Spanish pretender to the French throne (b. 1936)
- 1991Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)
- 1991John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
- 1991John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1994Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
- 1995Gerald Durrell, British naturalist and television presenter (b. 1925)
- 1998Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b. 1927)
- 1999Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (b. 1909)
- 1999Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2001Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
- 2001Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (b. 1915)
- 2001Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (b. 1915)
- 2005Martyn Bennett, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
- 2005Wes Wehmiller, American musician (b. 1971)
- 2006Coretta Scott King, American activist; widow of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
- 2007Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor (b. 1934)
- 2007Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
- 2008Jeremy Beadle, British television host (b. 1948)
- 2008Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious figure (b. 1920)
- 2008Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)
- 2009H. Guy Hunt, American politician (b. 1933)
- 2009Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (b. 1932)
- 2009John Gordy, American football player (b. 1935)
- 2010Aaron Ruben, American television director (b. 1914)
- 2010Bernard Arcand, French-Canadian anthropologist (b. 1945)
- 2011John Barry, English film score composer (b. 1933)
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