On this day | January 30th

On this day: January 30th

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1018 Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.

1287 King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.

1607 An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by 1607 Bristol Channel floods, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.

1648 Eighty Years' War: The Peace of Münster is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.

1649 Charles I of England is executed in Whitehall, London.

1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector # Cromwellian republican Commonwealth of the Commonwealth of England, is posthumous execution more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of Charles I of England he himself deposed.

1667 Truce of Andrusovo is signed, ending the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667)

1789 Tây Sơn dynasty forces Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa against Qing dynasty armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.

1806 The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.

1820 Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.

1826 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.

1835 In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence (failed assassin) attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself.

1847 Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California.

1858 The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.

1862 The first American ironclad warship, the is launched.

1889 Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austria-Hungary crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling Incident.

1902 The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.

1908 Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.

1911 The destroyer makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of John Alexander Douglas McCurdy from Havana, Cuba.

1920 Japanese carmaker Mazda is founded, initially as a Cork (plug)-producing company.

1925 The Government of Turkey expels Constantine VI of Constantinople from Istanbul.

1930 The Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union orders the confiscation of lands belonging to the Kulaks in a campaign of Dekulakization, resulting in the executions and forced deportations of millions.

1933 Adolf Hitler's rise to power: Hitler takes office as the Chancellor of Germany.

1939 During a 30 January 1939 Reichstag speech in the Reichstag (Nazi Germany), Adolf Hitler makes a Hitler's prophecy about the end of the Jews in Europe if another world war were to occur.

1942 World War II: Japanese forces Battle of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are killed after the surrender. One-quarter of the remaining POWs remain alive at the end of the war.

1944 World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.

1945 World War II: The ''KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff'', overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet Union Soviet submarine S-13, killing approximately 9,500 people.

1945 World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred and twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp.

1948 British South American Airways' BSAA Star Tiger disappearance over the Bermuda Triangle.

1948 Following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in his home compound, India's prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, broadcasts to the nation, saying "The light has gone out of our lives". The date of the assassination becomes observed as "Martyrs' Day (India)" in India.

1956 In the United States, Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott.

1959 The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman.

1959 , specifically designed to operate in icebound seas, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.

1960 The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.

1964 In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh January 1964 South Vietnamese coup General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.

1968 Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.

1969 The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The The Beatles' rooftop concert is broken up by the police.

1972 The Troubles: Bloody Sunday (1972): Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom) open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained.

1972 Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh.

1974 Pan Am Flight 806 crashes near Pago Pago International Airport in American Samoa, killing 97.

1975 The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.

1975 Turkish Airlines Flight 345 crashes into the Sea of Marmara near Atatürk Airport, killing 42.

1979 A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Varig Flight 820, Varig Flight 967 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.

1982 Richard Skrenta writes the first PC Computer virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple Computer boot program called "Elk Cloner".

1989 The American Embassy of the United States, Kabul in Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan is closed.

1995 Hydroxycarbamide becomes the first approved preventive treatment for sickle cell disease.

2000 Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.

2006 The Goleta postal facility shootings occur, killing seven people before the perpetrator took her own life.

2007 Microsoft Corporation releases Windows Vista, a major release of the operating system Microsoft Windows and the NT based kernel.

2013 Naro-1 becomes the first Launch vehicle launched by South Korea.

2020 The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

58 BC Livia, Roman wife of Augustus (d. 29)

1410 William Calthorpe, English knight (d. 1494)

1520 William More (died 1600), English courtier (d. 1600)

1563 Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian and academic (d. 1641)

1573 Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (d. 1638)

1580 Gundakar, Prince of Liechtenstein, court official in Vienna (d. 1658)

1590 Lady Anne Clifford, 14th Baroness de Clifford (d. 1676)

1628 George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)

1661 Charles Rollin, French historian and educator (d. 1741)

1697 Johann Joachim Quantz, German flute player and composer (d. 1773)

1703 François Bigot, French politician (d. 1778)

1720 Charles De Geer, Swedish entomologist and archaeologist (d. 1778)

1754 John Lansing Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1829)

1775 Walter Savage Landor, English poet and author (d. 1864)

1781 Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet (d. 1838)

1816 Nathaniel P. Banks, American general and politician, 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)

1822 Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist and curator (d. 1899)

1841 Félix Faure, French politician, 7th President of France (d. 1899)

1844 Richard Theodore Greener, American lawyer, academic, and diplomat (d. 1922)

1846 Angela of the Cross, Spanish nun and saint (d. 1932)

1861 Charles Martin Loeffler, German-American violinist and composer (d. 1935)

1862 Walter Damrosch, German-American conductor and composer (d. 1950)

1866 Gelett Burgess, American author, poet, and critic (d. 1951)

1878 A. H. Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)

1882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and statesman, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)

1889 Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and playwright (d. 1937)

1899 Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972)

1900 Martita Hunt, Argentine-born British actress (d. 1969)

1901 Rudolf Caracciola, German racing driver (d. 1959)

1902 Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (d. 1983)

1910 Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian lawyer and politician, Minister of Defence (India) (d. 2000)

1911 Roy Eldridge, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1989)

1912 Werner Hartmann (physicist), German physicist and academic (d. 1988)

1912 Francis Schaeffer, American pastor and theologian (d. 1984)

1912 Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author (d. 1989)

1913 Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Indian painter (d. 1941)

1914 Luc-Marie Bayle, French commander and painter (d. 2000)

1914 John Ireland (actor), Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1992)

1914 David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)

1915 Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976)

1915 John Profumo, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for War (d. 2006)

1917 Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and journalist (d. 2008)

1918 David Opatoshu, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1996)

1919 Fred Korematsu, American activist (d. 2005)

1920 Michael Anderson (director), English director and producer (d. 2018)

1920 Patrick Heron, British painter (d. 1999)

1920 Delbert Mann, American director and producer (d. 2007)

1922 Dick Martin (comedian), American comedian, actor, and director (d. 2008)

1923 Marianne Ferber, Czech-American economist and author (d. 2013)

1924 Ernie Calverley, American basketball player and coach (d. 2003)

1924 S. N. Goenka, Burmese-Indian author and educator (d. 2013)

1925 Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist, invented the Mouse (computing) (d. 2013)

1927 Olof Palme, Swedish statesman, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)

1928 Harold Prince, American director and producer (d. 2019)

1928 Paul Seymour (basketball), American basketball player and coach (d. 1998)

1929 Lois Hole, Canadian businesswoman and politician, 15th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (d. 2005)

1929 Hugh Tayfield, South African cricketer (d. 1994)

1929 Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian-Italian physician and humanitarian (d. 1996)

1930 Gene Hackman, American actor and author

1930 Magnus Malan, South African general and politician, Minister of Defence (South Africa) (d. 2011)

1931 John Crosbie, Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Minister of Justice (Canada) (d. 2020)

1931 Shirley Hazzard, Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2016)

1932 Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (d. 2007)

1934 Tammy Grimes, American actress and singer (d. 2016)

1935 Richard Brautigan, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (d. 1984)

1935 Tubby Hayes, English saxophonist and composer (d. 1973)

1936 Horst Jankowski, German pianist and composer (d. 1998)

1937 Vanessa Redgrave, English actress

1937 Boris Spassky, Russian chess player

1938 Islam Karimov, Uzbek politician, 1st President of Uzbekistan (d. 2016)

1941 Gregory Benford, American astrophysicist and author

1941 Dick Cheney, American businessman and politician, 46th Vice President of the United States

1941 Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer

1942 Marty Balin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2018)

1943 Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager

1944 Lynn Harrell, American cellist and academic (d. 2020)

1944 Colin Rimer, English lawyer and judge

1945 Meir Dagan, Israeli military officer and intelligence official, Director of Mossad (2002–11) (d. 2016)

1945 Michael Dorris, American author and scholar (d. 1997)

1946 John Bird, Baron Bird, English publisher, founded ''The Big Issue''

1947 Les Barker, English poet and author (d. 2023)

1947 Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1991)

1949 Peter Agre, American physician and biologist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate

1950 Jack Newton, Australian golfer (d. 2022)

1951 Phil Collins, English drummer, singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

1951 Charles S. Dutton, American actor and director

1951 Bobby Stokes, English footballer (d. 1995)

1952 Doug Falconer (Canadian football), Canadian football player and producer (d. 2021)

1953 Fred Hembeck, American author and illustrator

1955 John Baldacci, American politician, 73rd Governor of Maine

1955 Curtis Strange, American golfer

1955 Mychal Thompson, Bahamian-American basketball player and sportscaster

1956 Ann Dowd, American actress

1957 Chris Jansing, American television reporter

1957 Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)

1958 Brett Butler (actress), American actress

1959 Jody Watley, American entertainer

1962 Abdullah II of Jordan

1962 Mary Kay Letourneau, American sex offender (d. 2020)

1964 Otis Smith (basketball), American basketball player, coach, and manager

1965 Kevin Moore (rugby league), Australian rugby league player and coach

1966 Danielle Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1968 Felipe VI of Spain

1969 Justin Skinner (footballer, born 1969), English footballer and manager

1970 Kimiya Yui, Japanese astronaut

1972 Mike Johnson, American politician, 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

1972 Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player

1973 Jalen Rose, American basketball player and sportscaster

1974 Christian Bale, British actor

1974 Olivia Colman, English actress

1975 Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer

1976 Andy Milonakis, American entertainer

1978 Carmen Küng, Swiss curler

1978 John Patterson (pitcher), American baseball player

1979 Trevor Gillies, Canadian ice hockey player

1980 Lena Hall, American actress and singer

1980 Josh Kelley, American singer-songwriter and musician

1980 Georgios Vakouftsis, Greek footballer

1980 Wilmer Valderrama, American actor and producer

1981 Jonathan Bender, American basketball player

1981 Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer

1981 Peter Crouch, English footballer

1981 Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver

1982 Jorge Cantú, American-Mexican baseball player

1982 DeSagana Diop, Senegalese basketball player and coach

1982 Cameron Wake, American football player

1983 Drake Maverick, English wrestler

1983 Slavko Vraneš, Montenegrin basketball player

1984 Kid Cudi, American entertainer

1984 Junior dos Santos, Brazilian mixed martial artist

1984 Kotoshōgiku Kazuhiro, Japanese sumo wrestler

1985 Gisela Dulko, Argentinian tennis player

1987 Becky Lynch, Irish wrestler

1987 Renato Santos (footballer, born 1987), Brazilian footballer

1987 Arda Turan, Turkish footballer

1989 Jahvid Best, American football player and athlete

1989 Yoon Bo-ra, South Korean singer

1989 Kylie Bunbury, Canadian-American actress

1989 Misha Zilberman, Israeli Olympic badminton player

1990 Melissa Duncan, Australian track and field athlete

1990 Eiza González, Mexican actress and singer

1990 Luca Sbisa, Italian-Swiss ice hockey player and coach

1990 Mitchell Starc, Australian cricketer

1990 Jake Thomas, American actor

1991 Stefan Elliott, Canadian ice hockey player

1993 Katy Marchant, English track cyclist

1993 Kodai Senga, Japanese baseball player

1993 Thitipoom Techaapaikhun, Thai actor

1995 Danielle Campbell, American actress

1995 Jack Laugher, English diver

1996 Dafne Navarro, Mexican trampoline gymnast

1997 Thomas Chabot, Canadian ice hockey player

1997 Colin White (ice hockey, born 1997), American ice hockey player

2000 Markella Kavenagh, Australian actress

2000 Bryan Woo, American baseball player

2001 Curtis Jones (footballer), English footballer

2002 Tyla, South African singer and songwriter.

2002 Bijan Robinson, American football player

2003 Amen Thompson, American basketball player

2003 Ausar Thompson, American basketball player

2005 Prince Hashem bin Abdullah, second son of King Abdullah II of Jordan

680 Balthild, Frankish queen (b. 626)

970 Peter I of Bulgaria

1030 William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)

1181 Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)

1240 Pelagio Galvani, Leonese lawyer and cardinal (b. 1165)

1314 Nicholas III of Saint Omer

1344 William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury (b. 1301)

1384 Louis II, Count of Flanders (b. 1330)

1574 Damião de Góis, Portuguese historian and philosopher (b. 1502)

1606 Everard Digby, English criminal (b. 1578)

1606 John Grant (Gunpowder Plot), English conspirator (b. 1570)

1606 Robert Wintour, English conspirator (b. 1565)

1649 Charles I of England (b. 1600)

1664 Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor (b. 1599)

1730 Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)

1770 Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis, Maltese linguist, historian and cleric (b. 1712)

1836 Betsy Ross, American seamstress, said to have designed the Flag of the United States (b. 1752)

1838 Osceola, American tribal leader (b. 1804)

1858 Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist (b. 1778)

1867 Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)

1869 William Carleton, Irish author (b. 1794)

1881 Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (b. 1844)

1889 Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, heir apparent to the throne of Austria-Hungary (b. 1858)

1923 Columba Marmion, Benedictine abbot (b. 1858)

1926 Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)

1928 Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1867)

1934 Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday (publisher) (b. 1862)

1947 Frederick Blackman, English botanist and physiologist (b. 1866)

1948 Arthur Coningham (RAF officer), Australian air marshal (b. 1895)

1948 Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement against British Raj (b. 1869)

1948 Wright brothers, American pilot and engineer, co-founded the Wright Company (b. 1871)

1951 Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian-German engineer and businessman, founded Porsche (b. 1875)

1958 Jean Crotti, Swiss painter (b. 1878)

1958 Ernst Heinkel, German engineer and businessman; founded the Heinkel (b. 1888)

1962 Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician and engineer (b. 1894)

1963 Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer (b. 1899)

1966 Jaan Hargel, Estonian flute player, conductor, and educator (b. 1912)

1968 Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Indian poet, playwright, and journalist (b. 1889)

1969 Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1910)

1973 Elizabeth Baker (economist), American economist and academic (b. 1885)

1973 Titina Silá, Bissau-Guinean revolutionary (b. 1943)

1974 Olav Roots, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1910)

1977 Paul Marais de Beauchamp, French zoologist (b. 1883)

1980 Professor Longhair, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1918)

1982 Lightnin' Hopkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)

1991 John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1908)

1991 Clifton C. Edom, American photographer and educator (b. 1907)

1993 Alexandra of Yugoslavia, the last Queen of Yugoslavia (b. 1921)

1994 Pierre Boulle, French soldier and author (b. 1912)

1999 Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)

1999 Ed Herlihy, American journalist (b. 1909)

2001 Jean-Pierre Aumont, French soldier and actor (b. 1911)

2001 Johnnie Johnson (RAF officer), English air marshal and pilot (b. 1915)

2001 Joseph Ransohoff, American surgeon and educator (b. 1915)

2004 Egon Mayer (sociologist), Swiss-American sociologist (b. 1944)

2005 Martyn Bennett, Canadian-Scottish violinist (b. 1971)

2006 Coretta Scott King, American author and activist (b. 1927)

2006 Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright and academic (b. 1950)

2007 Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)

2008 Marcial Maciel, Mexican-American priest, founded the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi (b. 1920)

2009 H. Guy Hunt, American soldier, pastor, and politician, 49th Governor of Alabama (b. 1933)

2010 Fadil Ferati, Kosovar accountant and politician (b. 1960)

2011 John Barry (composer), English composer and conductor (b. 1933)

2012 Frank Aschenbrenner, American football player and soldier (b. 1925)

2012 Doeschka Meijsing, Dutch author (b. 1947)

2013 Gamal al-Banna, Egyptian author and scholar (b. 1920)

2013 Patty Andrews, American singer (b. 1918)

2013 George Witt (baseball), American baseball player and coach (b. 1931)

2014 Stefan Bałuk, Polish general and photographer (b. 1914)

2014 The Mighty Hannibal, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1939)

2014 William Motzing, American composer and conductor (b. 1937)

2014 Arthur Rankin Jr., American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)

2014 Greater (flamingo), oldest known greater flamingo and Feast Festival 2021 mascot (h. c.1919–1933)

2015 Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (b. 1923)

2015 Ülo Kaevats, Estonian academic, philosopher, and politician (b. 1947)

2015 Geraldine McEwan, English actress (b. 1932)

2015 Gerrit Voorting, Dutch cyclist (b. 1923)

2015 Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgarian philosopher and politician, 2nd List of heads of state of Bulgaria (b. 1935)

2016 Frank Finlay, English actor (b. 1926)

2016 Francisco Flores Pérez, Salvadorian politician, President of El Salvador (b. 1959)

2016 Georgia Davis Powers, American activist and politician (b. 1923)

2016 Gaston Mialaret, French pedagogist and professor (b. 1918)

2018 Mark Salling, American actor and musician (b. 1982)

2019 Dick Miller, American actor (b. 1928)

2021 Sophie (musician), Scottish musician (b. 1986)

2022 Cheslie Kryst, American television presenter and model (b. 1991)

2023 Bobby Beathard, American Pro Football Hall of Fame executive (b. 1937)

2023 Bobby Hull, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)

2024 Chita Rivera, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1933)

Christian Calendar of Saints:

- Adelelmus of Burgos

- Aldegonde

- Anthony the Great (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)

- Armentarius of Pavia

- Balthild

- Charles, King and Martyr (various provinces of the Anglican Communion)

- Hippolytus of Rome

- Hyacintha Mariscotti

- Martina of Rome

- Matthias of Jerusalem

- Mutien-Marie Wiaux

- Savina of Milan

- Three Holy Hierarchs (Eastern Orthodox), and its related observances:

- Teacher's Day (Greece)

- January 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Public holidays in Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan)

Saudade (Brazil)

Fred Korematsu Day (California, Florida, Hawaii, Virginia)

assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, and its related observances:

- Martyrs' Day (India)

- School Day of Non-violence and Peace (Spain)

- Start of the Season for Nonviolence (January 30 – April 4)

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