January 30 Events 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 along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding , resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths. 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain . 1661 - Oliver Cromwell , Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed. 1703 - The Forty-seven rōnin , under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke , avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka . 1789 - Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long . 1806 - The original Lower Trenton Bridge , which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, 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 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 Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling . 1902 - The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London . 1908 - Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand 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 Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba . 1925 - The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul . 1930 - The Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the extermination of the Kulaks . 1933 - Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany . 1942 - World War II: Battle of Ambon . Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies . Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs will not have survived by the end of the war, including 250 men who will be shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned. 1944 - World War II: The Battle of Cisterna , part of Operation Shingle , begins in central Italy. 1945 - World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff , overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people. 1945 - World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred 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' Tudor IV Star Tiger disappears over the Bermuda Triangle . 1956 - African-American civil rights 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 -, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the, 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 overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam . 1968 - Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. 1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police. 1972 - The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers 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 . 1975 - The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary . 1979 - A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820 , disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo. 1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner". 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul , Afghanistan is closed. 1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease . 2000 - Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast , killing 169. 2013 - Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.Births 58 BC - Livia , Roman wife of Augustus 133 - Didius Julianus , Roman emperor 1410 - William Calthorpe , English knight 1520 - William More , English courtier 1563 - Franciscus Gomarus , Dutch theologian and academic 1573 - Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach 1580 - Gundakar, Prince of Liechtenstein , court official in Vienna 1590 - Lady Anne Clifford, 14th Baroness de Clifford 1628 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham , English statesman 1661 - Charles Rollin , French historian and educator 1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz , German flute player and composer 1703 - François Bigot , French politician 1720 - Charles De Geer , Swedish entomologist and archaeologist 1754 - John Lansing, Jr., American lawyer and politician 1775 - Walter Savage Landor , English poet and author 1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso , German botanist and poet 1816 - Nathaniel P. Banks, American general and politician, 24th Governor of Massachusetts 1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer , Austrian geologist and curator 1841 - Félix Faure , French politician, 7th President of France 1844 - Richard Theodore Greener , American lawyer, academic, and diplomat 1846 - Angela of the Cross , Spanish nun and saint 1859 - Tony Mullane , Irish-American baseball player and manager 1861 - Charles Martin Loeffler , German-American violinist and composer 1862 - Walter Damrosch , German-American conductor and composer 1866 - Gelett Burgess , American author, poet, and critic 1878 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare , Estonian author 1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States 1889 - Jaishankar Prasad , Indian poet and playwright 1899 - Max Theiler , South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1900 - Martita Hunt , Argentine-born British actress 1901 - Rudolf Caracciola , German race car driver 1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner , German-English historian and scholar 1910 - Chidambaram Subramaniam , Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence 1911 - Roy Eldridge , American jazz trumpet player 1912 - Werner Hartmann , German physicist and academic 1912 - Francis Schaeffer , American pastor and theologian 1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author 1914 - Luc-Marie Bayle , French commander and painter 1914 - John Ireland , Canadian-American actor and director 1914 - David Wayne , American actor 1915 - Joachim Peiper , German SS officer 1915 - John Profumo , English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for War 1917 - Paul Frère , Belgian race car driver and journalist 1918 - David Opatoshu , American actor and screenwriter 1919 - Fred Korematsu , American activist 1920 - Michael Anderson , English director and producer 1920 - Patrick Heron , British painter 1920 - Delbert Mann , American director and producer 1922 - Dick Martin , American comedian, actor, and director 1923 - Marianne Ferber , Czech-American economist and author 1924 - S. N. Goenka, Burmese-Indian author and educator 1924 - Lloyd Alexander , American soldier and author 1925 - Douglas Engelbart , American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse 1927 - Olof Palme , Swedish statesman, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden 1928 - Harold Prince , American director and producer 1929 - Lois Hole , Canadian businesswoman and politician, 15th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta 1929 - Hugh Tayfield , South African cricketer 1929 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti , Canadian-Italian physician and humanitarian 1930 - Gene Hackman , American actor and author 1930 - Magnus Malan , South African general and politician, South African Minister of Defence 1931 - John Crosbie , Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Canadian Minister of Justice 1931 - Shirley Hazzard , Australian-American novelist, short story writer , and essayist 1932 - Knock Yokoyama , Japanese comedian and politician 1934 - Tammy Grimes , American actress and singer 1935 - Richard Brautigan , American novelist, poet, and short story writer 1935 - Tubby Hayes , English saxophonist and composer 1936 - Horst Jankowski , German pianist and composer 1937 - Vanessa Redgrave , English actress 1937 - Boris Spassky , Russian chess player and theoretician 1938 - Islam Karimov , Uzbek politician, 1st President of Uzbekistan 1941 - Gregory Benford , American astrophysicist and author 1941 - Dick Cheney , American businessman and politician, 46th Vice President of the United States , 17th US Secretary of Defense 1941 - Tineke Lagerberg , Dutch swimmer 1942 - Marty Balin , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1943 - Davey Johnson , American baseball player and manager 1944 - Lynn Harrell , American cellist and academic 1944 - Colin Rimer , English lawyer and judge 1945 - Meir Dagan , Israeli military officer and intelligence official, Director of Mossad 1945 - Michael Dorris , American author and scholar 1946 - John Bird, Baron Bird , English publisher, founded The Big Issue 1947 - Les Barker , English poet and author 1947 - Steve Marriott , English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1948 - Nick Broomfield , English director and producer 1948 - Miles Reid , English mathematician and academic 1949 - Peter Agre , American physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate 1950 - Jack Newton , Australian golfer 1951 - Phil Collins , English drummer, singer-songwriter, producer, and actor 1951 - Charles S. Dutton, American actor and director 1951 - Bobby Stokes , English footballer 1952 - Doug Falconer , Canadian football player and producer 1953 - Fred Hembeck , American author and illustrator 1955 - John Baldacci , American politician, 73rd Governor of Maine 1955 - Tom Izzo , American basketball player and coach 1955 - Curtis Strange , American golfer and sportscaster 1957 - Payne Stewart , American golfer 1958 - Derek White , Scottish rugby player 1959 - Cynthia Carter , Welsh journalist, author, and academic 1959 - Steve Folkes , Australian rugby league player and coach 1959 - Jody Watley , American entertainer 1962 - Abdullah II of Jordan 1964 - Otis Smith , American basketball player, coach, and manager 1965 - Kevin Moore , Australian rugby league player and coach 1966 - Danielle Goyette , Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1968 - Felipe VI of Spain 1969 - Justin Skinner , English footballer, midfielder and manager 1971 - Kimo von Oelhoffen , American football player 1972 - Jill McGill , American golfer 1972 - Chris Simon , Canadian ice hockey player 1973 - Jalen Rose , American basketball player and sportscaster 1974 - Christian Bale , Welsh actor 1974 - Olivia Colman , English actress 1975 - Juninho Pernambucano , Brazilian footballer 1975 - Yumi Yoshimura , Japanese musician and singer 1976 - Andy Milonakis , American entertainer 1977 - Dan Hinote , American ice hockey player and coach 1978 - Carmen Küng , Swiss curler 1978 - John Patterson , American baseball player 1979 - Trevor Gillies , Canadian ice hockey player 1980 - João Soares de Almeida Neto , Brazilian footballer 1980 - Georgios Vakouftsis , Greek footballer 1980 - Wilmer Valderrama , American actor and producer 1981 - Jonathan Bender , American basketball player 1981 - Dimitar Berbatov , Bulgarian footballer 1981 - Afonso Alves , Brazilian footballer 1981 - Peter Crouch , English footballer 1981 - Mathias Lauda , Austrian race car driver 1982 - Jorge Cantú , Mexican baseball player 1984 - Kotoshōgiku Kazuhiro , Japanese sumo wrestler 1984 - Arthur Chu , Asian-American columnist and former Jeopardy! contestant 1984 - Kid Cudi , American entertainer 1985 - Gisela Dulko , Argentinian tennis player 1985 - Torrey Mitchell , Canadian ice hockey player 1985 - Trae Williams , American football player 1986 - Nick Evans , American baseball player 1987 - Ben Cutting , Australian cricketer 1987 - Lance Franklin , Australian footballer 1987 - Phil Lester , English Internet celebrity 1987 - Becky Lynch , Irish wrestler 1987 - Renato Santos , Brazilian footballer 1987 - Arda Turan , Turkish footballer 1988 - Rob Pinkston , American actor and director 1989 - Tomás Mejías , Spanish footballer 1989 - Girish Kumar , Indian film actor 1990 - Yoon Bo-ra , South Korean singer 1990 - Joe Colborne , Canadian ice hockey player 1990 - Andrew McCullough , Australian rugby league player 1990 - Nils Miatke , German footballer 1990 - Luca Sbisa , Swiss ice hockey player 1990 - Mitchell Starc , Australian cricketer 1990 - Phillip Supernaw , American football player 1991 - Stefan Elliott , Canadian ice hockey player 1993 - Katy Marchant , English track cyclist 1995 - Jack Laugher , English diver 1995 - Víctor Sánchez , Venezuelan baseball playerDeaths 680 - Balthild , Frankish queen 970 - Peter I of Bulgaria 1030 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine 1181 - Emperor Takakura of Japan 1240 - Pelagio Galvani , Leonese lawyer and cardinal 1314 - Nicholas III of Saint Omer 1344 - William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury 1384 - Louis II, Count of Flanders 1497 - Lê Thánh Tông , King of Vietnam 1574 - Damião de Góis , Portuguese historian and philosopher 1606 - Everard Digby , English criminal 1606 - John Grant , English conspirator 1606 - Robert Wintour , English conspirator 1649 - Charles I of England 1664 - Cornelis de Graeff , Dutch mayor 1730 - Peter II of Russia 1770 - Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis , Maltese linguist, historian and cleric 1836 - Betsy Ross , American seamstress, said to have designed the American Flag 1838 - Osceola , American tribal leader 1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck , Dutch zoologist and ornithologist 1867 - Emperor Kōmei of Japan 1869 - William Carleton , Irish author 1881 - Arthur O'Shaughnessy , English poet and herpetologist 1889 - Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria , heir apparent to the throne of Austria-Hungary 1926 - Barbara La Marr , American actress 1928 - Johannes Fibiger , Danish physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1929 - La Goulue , French model and dancer 1934 - Frank Nelson Doubleday , American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company 1947 - Frederick Blackman , English botanist and physiologist 1948 - Arthur Coningham , Australian air marshal 1948 - Mahatma Gandhi , leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule 1948 - Orville Wright , American pilot and engineer, co-founded the Wright Company 1951 - Ferdinand Porsche , Austrian-German engineer and businessman, founded Porsche 1958 - Jean Crotti , Swiss painter 1958 - Ernst Heinkel , German engineer and businessman; founded the Heinkel Aircraft Company 1962 - Manuel de Abreu , Brazilian physician and engineer 1963 - Francis Poulenc , French pianist and composer 1966 - Jaan Hargel , Estonian flute player, conductor, and educator 1968 - Makhanlal Chaturvedi , Indian poet, playwright, and journalist 1969 - Dominique Pire , Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate 1973 - Elizabeth Baker , American economist and academic 1974 - Olav Roots , Estonian pianist and composer 1977 - Paul Marais de Beauchamp , French zoologist 1980 - Professor Longhair , American singer-songwriter and pianist 1982 - Lightnin' Hopkins , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1991 - John Bardeen , American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate 1991 - Clifton C. Edom, American photographer and educator 1994 - Pierre Boulle , French soldier and author 1999 - Huntz Hall , American actor 1999 - Ed Herlihy , American journalist 2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont , French soldier and actor 2001 - Johnnie Johnson , English air marshal and pilot 2001 - Joseph Ransohoff , American surgeon and educator 2005 - Martyn Bennett , Canadian-Scottish violinist 2006 - Coretta Scott King , American author and activist 2006 - Wendy Wasserstein , American playwright and academic 2007 - Sidney Sheldon , American author and screenwriter 2008 - Marcial Maciel , Mexican-American priest, founded the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi 2009 - H. Guy Hunt, American soldier, pastor, and politician, 49th Governor of Alabama 2010 - Fadil Ferati , Kosovar accountant and politician 2011 - John Barry , English composer and conductor 2012 - Frank Aschenbrenner , American football player and soldier 2012 - Doeschka Meijsing , Dutch author 2013 - Gamal al-Banna , Egyptian author and scholar 2013 - Patty Andrews , American singer 2013 - George Witt , American baseball player and coach 2014 - Stefan Bałuk , Polish general and photographer 2014 - The Mighty Hannibal , American singer-songwriter and producer 2014 - William Motzing , American composer and conductor 2014 - Arthur Rankin, Jr., American director, producer, and screenwriter 2015 - Carl Djerassi , Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright 2015 - Ülo Kaevats , Estonian academic, philosopher, and politician 2015 - Geraldine McEwan , English actress 2015 - Gerrit Voorting , Dutch cyclist 2015 - Zhelyu Zhelev , Bulgarian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of Bulgaria 2016 - Frank Finlay , English actor 2016 - Francisco Flores Pérez , Salvadorian politician, President of El Salvador 2016 - Georgia Davis Powers , American activist and politician 2018 - Mark Salling , American actor and musician 2019 - Dick Miller , American actorHolidays and observances Christian Feast Day: *Adelelmus of Burgos * Aldegonde * Anthony the Great * Armentarius of Pavia * Balthild * Charles, King and Martyr * Hippolytus of Rome * Hyacintha Mariscotti * Martina * Matthias of Jerusalem * Mutien-Marie Wiaux * Savina * Three Holy Hierarchs , and its related observances: **Teacher's Day * January 30 Day of Azerbaijani customs Day of Saudade Fred Korematsu Day Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi , and its related observances: * Martyrs' Day * School Day of Non-violence and Peace * Start of the Season for Nonviolence January 30 - April 4
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