On This day in History - Jan. 30

• 1030 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine , died on this day.
• 1616- Thomas Rolfe was born.
• 1649- King Charles I of England was beheaded (b. 1600) .
• 1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, was born, master builder (d. 1753).
• 1726 - Se funda la ciudad de Montevideo por el general español Bruno Mauricio de Zabala.
• 1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland.
• 1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso, was born, poet (d. 1838) .
• 1790 - The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
• 1820 - Edward Bransfield discovers Antarctica.
• 1835 - Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol -- first assassination attempt against a President.
• 1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
• 1861 - Charles Martin Loeffler, was born, American composer .
• 1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
• 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, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead with his mistress Baroness Marie Vetsera in Mayerling. How they died remains a mystery.
• 1894 - King Boris III of Bulgaria was born, (d. 1943).
• 1899 -Max Theiler was born, (d. 11 Aug 1972). American 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, driver of racing cars (d. 1959).
• 1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, was born, art historian (d. 1983).
• 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,. jazz musician (d. 1989) .
• 1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman, was born, historian (d. 1989) .
• 1912 - Barbara Tuchman was born, historian .
• 1913 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill.
• 1914 - David Wayne, was born, actor (d. 1995) .
• 1914 - John Ireland, was born, actor (d. 1992).
• 1920 - Delbert Mann, was born, director .
• 1922 - Dick Martin, was born, comedian .
• 1924 - Lloyd Alexander, was born, writer .
• 1925 - Douglas Engelbart, was born, computer scientist .
• 1925 - Dorothy Malone, was born, actress .
• 1925 - Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
• 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 .
• 1927 - Olof Palme, was born, Prime Minister of Sweden 1969-1976, 1982-1986 (d. 1986) .
• 1928 - Hal Prince, was born, stage producer, director .
• 1930 - Gene Hackman, was born, actor.
• 1931 - Allan W. Eckert, was born, historian, naturalist and author.
• 1931 - Shirley Hazzard, was born, Australian-American author .
• 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.
• 1935 - Richard Brautigan, was born writer and poet (d. 1984) .
• 1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, was born, actress .
• 1937 - Boris Spassky, was born, chess grand master.
• 1941 - Richard Cheney was born, politician, vice president of the United States .
• 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 - Marty Balin, was born, musician .
• 1944 - United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands.
• 1945 - Michael Dorris was born , American Writer (d.1997).
• 1947 - Les Barker, was born, English poet .
• 1947 - Steve Marriott, was born, musician (The Small Faces) (d. 1991) .
• 1948 - Orville Wright, aviation pioneer .
• 1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1869) is murdered by a Hindu extremist.
• 1948 - Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz .
• 1951 - Phil Collins, was born in London, musician (Genesis) .
• 1952 - Martial law is imposed in Egypt as King Farouk dismisses the premier Nahas Pasha and his Wafdist government.
• 1958 -Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, dies (b. 24 Jan 1888). German aircraft engineer who built the first rocket-powered aircraft .
• 1958 - Jean Crotti, dies, Swiss artist (b. 1878) .
• 1962 - Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau, was born, pedophile teacher .
• 1963 - Francis Poulenc,dies, composer (b. 1899) .
• 1964 - Ranger 6 is launched by NASA. Its mission is it 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. The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return.
• 1972 - Tim Jones, was born, Gonzo Journalist .
• 1974 - Christian Bale, was born, actor .
• 1980 - Professor Longhair, dies, King of New Orleans music (b. 1918) .
• 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, blues musician.
• 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.
• 1990 - Jake Thomas, was born, actor (Lizzie McGuire) .
• 1991 - John Bardeen, dies, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics twice (b. 1908) .
• 1991 - John McIntire, dies, actor.
• 1993 - Entra em funcionamento inaugural a TVI.
• 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 - Pierre Boulle, dies, author (b. 1912) .
• 1995 - Gerald Durrell, dies, naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter (b. 1925) .
• 1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventative treatment for sickle cell anaemia.
• 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.
• 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, actor (b. 1919).
• 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.
• 2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, dies, actor (b. 1911) .
• 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 - Date of the first elections in Iraq since the 2003 overthrow of the Ba'ath party.