On this day in History - Jan. 30

• 58 BC Livia Drusilla (d. AD 29). Political wife of Emperor Augustus
• 0133 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus was born (d. 0193). Roman Emperor
• 1030 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine dies (b. 0969).
• 1077 - Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
• 1181 - Emperor Takakura of Japan dies (b. 1161).
• 1384 - Louis II of Flanders dies (b. 1330).
• 1505 - Thomas Tallis was born (d. 1585). English composer.
• 1563 - Franciscus Gomarus was born (d. 1641). Dutch theologian.
• 1566 - Alessandro Piccinini was born. Composer
• 1574 - Damião de Góis dies (b. 1502). Portuguese philosopher.
• 1580 - Maria de Aragão dies (b. 1482). Second wife of King of Portugal D. Manuel I
• 1592 - Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
• 1606 - Everard Digby dies (b. 1578). English conspirator.
• 1615 - Thomas Rolfe was born. American colonial settler
• 1648 - The Treaty of Münster is signed, ending the Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain.
• 1649 - King Charles I of England dies beheaded (b. 1600) .
• 1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is formally executed - after having been dead for two years.
• 1661 - Charles Rollin was born (d. 1741). French historian.
• 1667 - Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia and Poland sign peace treaty
• 1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann was born (d. 1753). German architect.
• 1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz was born (d. 1773). German flutist and composer.
• 1720 - Charles De Geer was born (d. 1778). Swedish industrialist and entomologist
• 1726 - Se funda la ciudad de Montevideo por el general español Bruno Mauricio de Zabala.
• 1730 - Peter II Alekseyevitch dies at 14. Emperor of Russia (1727-30).
• 1754 - John Lansing, Jr. was born (d. 1829). American statesman.
• 1774 - Jean-Pierre Guignon dies at 71. Composer.
• 1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland.
• 1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso was born (d. 1838). German poet.
• 1790 - The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
• 1806 - 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, was open.
• 1814 - Jean-Baptist Capronnier was born. French/Belgian glass painter
• 1820 - Edward Bransfield lands on the Antarctic mainland.
• 1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer was born (d. 1899). Austrian geologist.
• 1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales was opened. The bridge was not the first suspension bridge, but was so much larger than anything previously built that it is considered the world's first modern suspension bridge.
• 1835 - Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol -first assassination attempt against a President.
• 1836 - Betsy Ross dies (b. 1752). American seamstress.
• 1839 - Samuel Armstrong was born (11 May 1893). American founder of Hampton Institute
• 1841 - A fire destroys two-thirds of the then villa (now city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• 1841 - Félix Faure was born (d. 1899). 6th President of France.
• 1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
• 1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck dies (b. 1778). Dutch zoologist.
• 1859 - Edward Martyn was born (d. 5 Dec 1923). Irish dramatist
• 1859 - Tony Mullane was born (d. 1944). Major League Baseball player.
• 1860 - Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto dies at 44. Composer.
• 1861 - Charles Martin Loeffler was born (d. 1935). American composer .
• 1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
• 1867 - Emperor Komei of Japan dies (b. 1831).
• 1869 - William Carleton dies (b. 1794). Irish novelist.
• 1878 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare was born (d. 1940). Estonian author.
• 1879 - French President MacMahon resigns
• 1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, N. Y. (d. 1945). President of the United States.
• 1889 - Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (b. 1858), heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead with his mistress Baroness Marie Vetsera in Mayerling. How they died remains a mystery.
• 1889 - Jaishankar Prasad was born (d. 1937). Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist.
• 1894 - Charles B. King of Detroit, earned himself a patent for the pneumatic hammer
• 1894 - King Boris III of Bulgaria was born (d. 1943).
• 1899 - Max Theiler was born (d. 11 Aug 1972). South-African microbiologist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research on yellow fever.
• 1900 - United Kingdom forces fighting Boers in South Africa ask for reinforcements.
• 1901 - Rudolf Caracciola was born (d. 1959). German driver of racing cars.
• 1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner was born (d. 1983). German-born art historian.
• 1910 - C Subramaniam was born (d. 2000). Indian politician.
• 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.
• 1911 - Roy Eldridge was born (d. 1989). American jazz musician.
• 1912 - Francis Schaeffer was born. American Evangelical theologian and pastor
• 1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman was born (b. 1989). American historian.
• 1913 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill.
• 1914 - David Wayne was born (d. 1995). Actor.
• 1914 - John Ireland was born (d. 1992). Canadian actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral [1957], Little Big Horn, Spartacus, All the King’s Men, Marilyn: The Untold Story, Messenger of Death)
• 1915 - Joachim Peiper was born (d. 1976). German military leader.
• 1915 - John Profumo was born. British cabinet minister.
• 1917 - The Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded a classic for Columbia Records titled, The Darktown Strutters’ Ball. It was one of the first jazz compositions recorded.
• 1918 - David Opatoshu was born (d. 1996). American television actor.
• 1920 - Delbert Mann was born. American director.
• 1920 - Carwood Lipton was born. American WWII veteran
• 1921 - António Gomes Leal dies (b. 1848). Portuguese poet.
• 1922 - Nuno Teotónio Pereira was born. Portuguese architect.
• 1922 - Dick Martin was born. Emmy Award-winning comedian.
• 1924 - Lloyd Alexander was born. American writer .
• 1925 - Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
• 1925 - Douglas Engelbart was born. American computer scientist
• 1925 - Dorothy Malone was born. American actress (Written on the Wind, Beach Party, Basic Instinct, Battle Cry, Man of a Thousand Faces).
• 1926 - Barbara La Marr dies (b. 1896). American actress.
• 1927 - Olof Palme was born (d. 1986). Prime Minister of Sweden (1969-76 and 1982-86).
• 1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger dies (b. 1867). Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1928 - Hal Prince was born. American stage producer, director (West Side Story, Evita)
• 1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger dies (b. 1867). Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1929 - Roger Newland Shepard was born. American psychologist who was awarded the National Medal of Science (1995) for his research work that provided major new insights into the nature of mental processes, previously considered impossible to study.
• 1929 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti was born (d. 1996). Canadian surgeon and international aid worker.
• 1930 - the world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR
• 1930 - Gene Hackman was born. American Academy Award-winning actor (The French Connection [1971], Bonnie and Clyde, Hawaii, Mississippi Burning, The Poseidon Adventure, Postcards from the Edge, Superman, The Firm, Crimson Tide).
• 1930 - Magnus Malan was born. South African politician.
• 1931 - Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater
• 1931 - Allan W. Eckert was born. American historian, naturalist and author.
• 1931 - Shirley Hazzard was born. Australian-American author.
• 1931 - John Crosbie was born. Canadian politician
• 1932 - Knock Yokoyama was born. Japanese comedian and politician .
• 1933 - Adolf Hitler sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1933 - The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger airs on the radio for the first time.
• 1933 - Louis Rukeyser was born (d. 2006). American journalist.
• 1934 - Frank Nelson Doubleday dies (b. 1862). American publisher.
• 1935 - Richard Brautigan was born (d. 1984). Writer and poet.
• 1936 - Patrick Caulfield was born (d. 2005). British painter and printmaker.
• 1937 - Vanessa Redgrave was born. English actress .
• 1937 - Boris Spassky was born. Russian chess grand master.
• 1938 - Islam Karimov was born. President of Uzbekistan
• 1938 - Norma Jean was born. American country singer.
• 1939 - Alejandro Toledo was born. President of Peru
• 1941 - Dick Cheney was born. Politician, 46th Vice President of the United States .
• 1941 - Gregory Benford was born. American author and scientist.
• 1941 - Tineke Lagerberg was born. Dutch swimmer.
• 1941 - World War II: North AfricaThe 6th Australian Division, of Lieutenant-General Dick O'Connor's XIII Corps, takes Derna, Libya, after three days of fierce fighting.
• 1943 - Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. U.S. cruiser Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedo bombers.
• 1943 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: German Gestapo organises mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp were ordered to undress and were shot with machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7.000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv.
• 1943 - Marty Balin was born. American musician .
• 1944 - United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands.
• 1945 - The Wilhelm Gustloff sinks in the Baltic Sea in the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000.
• 1945 - Michael Dorris was born (d. 1997). American writer.
• 1947 - Les Barker was born. English poet .
• 1947 - Steve Marriott was born (d. 1991). English musician (The Small Faces)
• 1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
• 1948 - Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz.
• 1948 - Nick Broomfield was born. British film- and documentary-maker
• 1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, dies (b. 1869). Indian freedom fighter
• 1948 - Orville Wright dies (b. 1871). American aviation pioneer.
• 1949 - Peter Agre was born. American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1951 - Phil Collins was born in London. English musician (Genesis) .
• 1951 - Charles S. Dutton was born. American actor.
• 1951 - Ferdinand Porsche dies (b. 1875). Austrian automotive engineer.
• 1952 - Martial law is imposed in Egypt as King Farouk dismisses the premier Nahas Pasha and his Wafdist government.
• 1952 - Doug Falconer was born. Professional football player
• 1955 - Judith Tarr was born. American author.
• 1956 - Jeremy Gittins was born. British actor
• 1956 - Jane Seymour dies at 56. Actress (Young Mr Bobbin).
• 1957 - Payne Stewart was born (d. 1999). American golfer.
• 1958 - Ernst Heinkel dies (b. 24 Jan 1888). German aircraft engineer who built the first rocket-powered aircraft .
• 1958 - Jean Crotti dies (b. 1878). Swiss artist.
• 1959 - Jody Watley was born. American singer.
• 1960 - The women’s singles U.S. figure skating championship was won by Carol Heiss
• 1960 - Clara Pinto Correia was born in Lisbon. Portuguese investigator and writer.
• 1962 - Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1962 - UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)
• 1962 - King Abdullah II of Jordan was born.
• 1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau was born. American teacher
• 1962 - Manuel de Abreu dies (b. 1894). Brazilian physician.
• 1963 - Francis Poulenc dies (b. 1899). French composer.
• 1964 - Ranger 6 is launched by NASA. Its mission is it to carry television cameras and to crash-land on the moon.
• 1965 - Marcelo Bonfá was born. Brazilian musician (Legião Urbana)
• 1965 - Julie McCullough was born. American Playboy model and actress
• 1966 - Danielle Goyette was born. Quebec female ice hockey player
• 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch series of a surprise attacks in South Vietnam.
• 1968 - Prince Felipe of Spain was born.
• 1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.
• 1969 - Carolyn Kepcher was born. American businesswoman and reality TV show star.
• 1969 - Georges Pire dies (b. 1910). Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1970 - Hans Spark was born. Football (soccer) player (RKC)
• 1971 - Kimo von Oelhoffen was born. American football player
• 1972 - Bloody Sunday: United Kingdom forces kill thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland.
• 1972 - Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth. The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return.
• 1972 - Tim Jones was born. Gonzo Journalist.
• 1972 - Lupillo Rivera was born. Mexican singer.
• 1972 - Chris Simon was born. National Hockey League player
• 1973 - Jalen Rose was born. American basketball player
• 1973 - Holly Noelle Roehl was born. Miss Indiana USA (1996)
• 1974 - Christian Bale was born. Welsh actor.
• 1974 - Jemima Khan was born. British socialite.
• 1974 - Olivia Colman was born. British actress.
• 1974 - Christian Bale was born. British actor.
• 1975 - First faroese stamp issued.
• 1975 - Yumi Yoshimura was born. Japanese singer Puffy Amiyumi
• 1975 - Juninho Pernambucano was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1976 - Andy Milonakis was born. American comedian.
• 1978 - John Patterson was born. Baseball player
• 1979 - Varig 707-323C freighter, flewn by the same commander of Varig Flight 820 disappears over the ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
• 1979 - The civilian government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to return from exile in France.
• 1980 - Wilmer Valderrama was born. American actor.
• 1980 - Professor Longhair dies (b. 1918). American musician, King of New Orleans music.
• 1981 - 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins
• 1981 - Dimitar Berbatov was born. Bulgarian footballer
• 1981 - Peter Crouch was born. English footballer
• 1981 - Josh Kelley was born. American musician
• 1981 - Garth Barrett's raiders, part of the South African Recce Operations, attack supposed MK cadres at Matola, Mozambique. A Portuguese engineer, Jose Ramos, is "mistakenly identified" as Joe Slovo, one of the raids main targets, by the South African forces and is shot at a roadblock.
• 1982 - Lightning Hopkins dies (b. 1912). American musician.
• 1983 - Super Bowl XVII: The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins, 27-17, thus winning their first NFL championship since 1942.
• 1984 - Jeremy Hermida was born. Baseball player
• 1987 - Rebecca Knox was born. Irish professional wrestler
• 1988 - Rob Pinkston was born. American actor
• 1988 - Laura Banks was born. Scottish Author, musician
• 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
• 1989 - American Olympic medalist Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing two teenagers in a drunk driving accident.
• 1989 - 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis and George Michael wins
• 1989 - Khleo Thomas was born. American actor
• 1990 - Jake Thomas was born. Actor (Lizzie McGuire) .
• 1991 - John Bardeen dies (b. 1908). American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• 1991 - John McIntire dies (b. 1907). American actor.
• 1992 - Matthew Werkmeister was born. Australian actor
• 1993 - Portuguese TV station TVI starts working. / Entra em funcionamento inaugural a TVI.
• 1993 - 67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (4-6, 6-3, 6-2)
• 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.
• 1994 - Nirvana's final recording session takes place at Robert Lang Studios, with the song "You Know You're Right" being completed. It would become a #1 hit eight years later.
• 1994 - 68th Australian Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (6-0, 6-2).
• 1994 - 82nd Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (7-6, 6-4, 6-4).
• 1994 - Bahjat Talhouni dies. PM of Jordan (1960-62, 64-65, 67-69, 69-70).
• 1994 - Pierre Boulle dies (b. 1912). French author.
• 1995 - Gerald Durrell dies (b. 1925). British naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter.
• 1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventative treatment for sickle cell anaemia.
• 1995 - 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men and Ace of Base win
• 1995 - Gerald Malcolm Durrell dies (b. 7 Jan 1925) British naturalist and prolific author, known internationally for his pioneering, even controversial, role in preserving and breeding endangered species in zoos with the intention of eventually returning them to the wild.
• 1996 - Suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed while in line for his unemployment benefit.
• 1996 - NBA superstar Magic Johnson plays the first game of his return to the Los Angeles Lakers. Magic retired in 1991 after contracting HIV.
• 1997 - Las cenizas de Mahatma Gandhi, padre de la India, son arrojadas al río Ganges después de cumplirse 49 años desde que fue asesinado en Nueva Delhi por un extremista.
• 1999 - Huntz Hall dies (b. 1919). American actor.
• 1999 - Ed Herlihy dies (b. 1909). American writer.
• 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.
• 2000 - Off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
• 2000 - Super Bowl XXXIV (at Atlanta) : St. Louis Rams 23, Tennessee Titans 16
• 2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont dies (b. 1911). French actor.
• 2001 - Joseph Ransohoff dies (b. 1916). The father of modern neurosurgery.
• 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.
• 2005 - A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules is shot down over Iraq
• 2005 - Martyn Bennet dies (b. 1971). Multi-instrumentalist and composer.
• 2005 - Wes Wehmiller dies (b. 1971). American musician.
• 2006 - Coretta Scott King dies (b. 1927). American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 2007 - Microsoft releases its next Operating system, Windows Vista, a major milestone for the company.
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