January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 335 days remaining until the end of the year (336 in leap years ).
Events
1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen .
1607 – An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) 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.
1649 – King Charles I of England is beheaded.
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.
1667 – The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev , Smolensk , and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo .
1703 – The Forty-seven Ronin , under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke , avenge the death of their master.
1789 – Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long .
1790 – The first boat specializing 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 , 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.
1841 – A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico .
1847 – Yerba Buena , California is renamed San Francisco .
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 USS Monitor 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 USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana , Cuba .
1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy .
1913 – The British House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill .
1925 – The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul .
1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany .
1942 – World War II : Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies .
1943 – World 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 .
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna , part of Operation Shingle , begins in central Italy.
1944 – World War II: American troops land on Majuro , Marshall Islands .
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 in what is the deadliest known maritime disaster.
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 – Mahatma Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle, is assassinated by Nathuram Godse , a Hindu extremist.
1956 – African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. 's home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott .
1959 – MS Hans Hedtoft , said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic , 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 – Ranger program : Ranger 6 is launched.
1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh 's military junta in South Vietnam .
1965 – Some one million people attend former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill 's funeral, the biggest in the United Kingdom up to that point.
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.
1971 – Carole King 's Tapestry album is released to become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.
1972 – The Troubles : Bloody Sunday : British Paratroopers open fire on and kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry , Northern Ireland .
1972 – Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations .
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 – Closure of the American embassy in Kabul , Democratic Republic of Afghanistan .
1994 – Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grandmaster.
1995 – Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease .
2000 – Off the coast of Ivory Coast , Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
2003 – The Kingdom of Belgium officially recognizes same-sex marriages .
2013 – Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
Births
58 BC – Livia , Roman wife of Augustus (d. 29)
133 – Didius Julianus , Roman emperor (d. 193)
1563 – Franciscus Gomarus , Dutch theologian and academic (d. 1641)
1615 – Thomas Rolfe , American son of Pocahontas (d. 1675)
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)
1832 – Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
1841 – Félix Faure , French politician, 7th President of France (d. 1899)
1844 – Richard Theodore Greener , American diplomat and attorney (d.1922)
1846 – Angela of the Cross , Spanish nun and saint (d. 1932)
1852 – Ion Luca Caragiale , Romanian playwright and poet (d. 1912)
1859 – Tony Mullane , Irish-American baseball player and manager (d. 1944)
1861 – Charles Martin Loeffler , French-American violinist and composer (d. 1935)
1862 – Walter Damrosch , German-American conductor and composer (d. 1950)
1864 – James Mitchel , Irish-American hammer thrower (d. 1921)
1866 – Gelett Burgess , American author, poet, and critic (d. 1951)
1875 – Walter Middelberg , Dutch rower (d. 1944)
1878 – Anton Hansen Tammsaare , Estonian author (d. 1940)
1882 – Franklin D. Roosevelt , American lawyer and politician; 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
1883 – Peeter Süda , Estonian organist and composer (d. 1920)
1889 – Jaishankar Prasad , Indian poet and playwright (d. 1937)
1890 – Bruno Kastner , German actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1932)
1894 – Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
1899 – Max Theiler , South African-American virologist and academic; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
1901 – Rudolf Caracciola , German race car driver (d. 1959)
1902 – Nikolaus Pevsner , German-English historian and scholar (d. 1983)
1910 – Chidambaram Subramaniam , Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence (d. 2000)
1911 – Roy Eldridge , American trumpet player (d. 1989)
1912 – Werner Hartmann , 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 – Alfrēds Riekstiņš , Latvian military officer and freedom fighter (d. 1952)
1913 – Amrita Sher-Gil , Hungarian-Indian painter (d. 1941)
1913 – Percy Thrower , English gardener and television host (d. 1988)
1914 – Luc-Marie Bayle , French commander and painter (d. 2000)
1914 – John Ireland , Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1992)
1914 – David Wayne , American actor and singer (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 race car driver and journalist (d. 2008)
1918 – David Opatoshu , American actor and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1919 – Nikolay Glazkov , Russian actor and poet (d. 1979)
1919 – Fred Korematsu , American activist (d. 2005)
1920 – Michael Anderson , English director and producer
1920 – Carwood Lipton , American lieutenant (d. 2001)
1920 – Delbert Mann , American director and producer (d. 2007)
1922 – Dick Martin , American comedian, actor, and director (d. 2008)
1923 – Marianne Ferber , Czech-American economist and author (d. 2013)
1924 – S. N. Goenka , Burmese-Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation (d. 2013)
1924 – Lloyd Alexander , American soldier and author (d. 2007)
1925 – Douglas Engelbart , American computer scientist; invented the computer mouse (d. 2013)
1925 – Dorothy Malone , American actress
1927 – Ahmed Abdul-Malik , American bassist and oud player (d. 1993)
1927 – Olof Palme , Swedish captain and politician, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
1928 – Harold Prince , American director and producer
1929 – Lois Hole , Canadian politician, author, businesswoman, academician and professional gardener (d. 2005)
1929 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti , Canadian-Italian physician and humanitarian (d. 1996)
1930 – Samuel Byck , American criminal (d. 1974)
1930 – Gene Hackman , American actor and author
1930 – Jānis Krūmiņš , Latvian basketball player (d. 1994)
1930 – Magnus Malan , South African general and politician; South African Minister of Defence (d. 2011)
1931 – John Crosbie , Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Canadian Minister of Justice
1931 – Shirley Hazzard , Australian author
1932 – Knock Yokoyama , Japanese comedian and politician (d. 2007)
1934 – Tammy Grimes , American actress, singer and dancer
1935 – Richard Brautigan , American author and poet (d. 1984)
1935 – Elsa Martinelli , Italian model and actress
1936 – Horst Jankowski , German pianist and composer (d. 1998)
1937 – Vanessa Redgrave , English actress, singer, and producer
1937 – Boris Spassky , Russian chess player
1938 – Islam Karimov , Uzbek politician; 1st President of Uzbekistan
1940 – Mitch Murray , English songwriter and producer
1941 – Gregory Benford , American astrophysicist and author
1941 – Dick Cheney , American politician, 46th Vice President of the United States
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
1944 – Gad Tsobari , Israeli wrestler
1945 – Michael Dorris , American author and scholar (d. 1997)
1945 – Boots Anson-Roa , Filipino actress
1946 – John Bird , English publisher; founded The Big Issue
1947 – Les Barker , English poet and author
1947 – Małgorzata Braunek , Polish actress (d. 2014)
1947 – Steve Marriott , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (d. 1991)
1948 – Nick Broomfield , English director and producer
1948 – Paul Magee , Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer
1948 – Miles Reid , English mathematician and academic
1949 – Peter Agre , American physician and biologist; Nobel Prize laureate
1949 – Jaak Salumets , Estonian basketball player and coach
1950 – Susan Gottesman , American microbiologist
1950 – Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar , Ghanaian-American scholar and theologian
1950 – Leili Pärnpuu , Estonian chess player
1950 – Trinidad Silva , American actor (d. 1988)
1951 – Phil Collins , English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Genesis , Brand X , and Flaming Youth )
1951 – Charles S. Dutton , American actor and director
1951 – Bobby Stokes , English footballer (d. 1995)
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
1955 – Mychal Thompson , Bahamian basketball player and sportscaster
1956 – Jeremy Gittins , English actor
1956 – Darko Rundek , Croatian-French singer-songwriter and actor
1956 – Keiichi Tsuchiya , Japanese race car driver and radio host
1957 – Polly Horvath , American-Canadian author
1957 – Payne Stewart , American golfer (d. 1999)
1958 – Brett Butler , American actress and producer
1958 – Sayuri Ishikawa , Japanese singer
1959 – Cynthia Carter , Welsh journalist, author, and academic
1959 – Mark Eitzel , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959 – Jody Watley , American singer-songwriter and producer
1960 – Gerald Finley , Canadian opera singer
1960 – Tony O'Dell , American actor
1961 – Dexter Scott King , American actor and activist
1962 – Abdullah II of Jordan
1963 – Daphne Ashbrook , American actress
1963 – Tina Malone , English actress, director, and producer
1964 – Otis Smith , American basketball player, coach, and manager
1965 – Julie McCullough , American model and actress
1966 – Neal Chase , American educator
1966 – Danielle Goyette , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1967 – Jay Gordon , American singer-songwriter and producer
1968 – Trevor Dunn , American bass player and songwriter
1968 – Tony Maudsley , English actor
1968 – Felipe VI of Spain
1969 – Carolyn Kepcher , American businesswoman
1971 – Darren Boyd , English actor and screenwriter
1971 – Kimo von Oelhoffen , American football player
1972 – Lupillo Rivera , Mexican-American singer-songwriter
1972 – Chris Simon , Canadian ice hockey player
1972 – Zoren Legaspi , Filipino actor
1973 – Jalen Rose , American basketball player and sportscaster
1974 – Christian Bale , Welsh-American actor
1974 – Olivia Colman , English actress and singer
1974 – Jemima Khan , English journalist and activist
1974 – Alvin Elchico , Filipino journalist
1975 – Dark Ozz , Mexican wrestler
1975 – Juninho Pernambucano , Brazilian footballer
1975 – Yumi Yoshimura , Japanese singer and actress (Puffy AmiYumi )
1976 – Andy Milonakis , American actor and rapper (Three Loco )
1977 – Dan Hinote , American ice hockey player and coach
1977 – Tom Malchow , American swimmer
1977 – Deltha O'Neal , American football player
1978 – Carmen Küng , Swiss curler
1978 – John Patterson , American baseball player
1979 – Trevor Gillies , Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Tarmo Jallai , Estonian hurdler
1979 – Jaak Urmet , Estonian author and poet
1980 – João Soares de Almeida Neto , Brazilian footballer
1980 – Leilani Dowding , English model and actress
1980 – Josh Kelley , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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 race car driver
1982 – Jorge Cantú , Mexican baseball player
1982 – DeSagana Diop , Senegalese basketball player
1982 – Mark Nwokeji , English footballer
1982 – Hidenori Tokuyama , Japanese actor and singer
1983 – Ben Maher , English horse rider
1983 – Rockstar Spud , English wrestler
1984 – Kid Cudi , American rapper, producer, and actor
1984 – Jeremy Hermida , American baseball player
1984 – Midori Kuzuoka , Japanese model
1985 – Torrey Mitchell , Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Yuuri Morishita , Japanese model
1985 – Trae Williams , American football player
1986 – Nick Evans , American baseball player
1986 – Asami Shimoda , Japanese voice actress and singer
1987 – Lance Franklin , Australian footballer
1987 – Rebecca Knox , Irish wrestler
1987 – Phil Lester , English radio host and blogger
1987 – Becky Lynch , Irish wrestler
1987 – Renato Santos , Brazilian footballer
1987 – Arda Turan , Turkish footballer
1988 – Maksim Krychanov , Russian footballer
1988 – Rob Pinkston , American actor and director
1989 – Khleo , American actor and rapper
1989 – Tomás Mejías , Spanish footballer
1989 – Baek Sung-hyun , South Korean actor
1990 – Joe Colborne , Canadian ice hockey player
1990 – Eiza González , Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
1990 – Nils Miatke , German footballer
1990 – Luca Sbisa , Swiss ice hockey player
1990 – Jake Thomas , American actor
1990 – Fille Cainglet , Filipino volleyball player
1990 – Mitchell Starc , Australian cricketer
1990 – Andrew McCullough , Australian rugby league footballer
1991 – Stefan Elliott , Canadian ice hockey player
1995 – Misaki Iwasa , Japanese singer
1995 – Viktoria Komova , Russian gymnast
1995 – Thia Megia , American singer
1995 – Víctor Sánchez , Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2015)
2005 – Prince Hashem bin Al-Abdullah of Jordan
Deaths
680 – Balthild , Frankish queen (b. 626)
1030 – William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
1181 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
1240 – Pelagio Galvani , Leonese cardinal (b. 1165)
1314 – Nicholas III of Saint Omer
1384 – Louis II, Count of Flanders (b. 1330)
1574 – Damião de Góis , Portuguese historian and philosopher (b. 1502)
1606 – Everard Digby , English conspirator (b. 1578)
1649 – Charles I of England (b. 1600)
1730 – Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
1836 – Betsy Ross , American seamstress, designed the American Flag (b. 1752)
1849 – Jonathan Alder , American farmer (b. 1773)
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 (b. 1858)
1926 – Barbara La Marr , American actress and screenwriter (b. 1896)
1928 – Johannes Fibiger , Danish physician and academic; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
1929 – La Goulue , French model and dancer (b. 1866)
1934 – Frank Nelson Doubleday , American publisher; founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (b. 1862)
1937 – Alfred Grütter , Swiss target shooter (b. 1860)
1947 – Frederick Blackman , British plant physiologist (b. 1866)
1948 – Arthur Coningham , Australian air marshal (b. 1895)
1948 – Mahatma Gandhi , Indian lawyer, philosopher, and activist (b. 1869)
1948 – Orville Wright , 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 Aircraft Company (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 Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1980 – Professor Longhair , American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1918)
1982 – Lightnin' Hopkins , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
1984 – Luke Kelly , Irish singer and banjo player (The Dubliners ) (b. 1940)
1984 – Lee McCall , South African criminal (b. 1950)
1987 – Harold Loeffelmacher , American singer and bandleader (b. 1905)
1989 – Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (b. 1936)
1991 – John Bardeen , American physicist and engineer; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
1991 – Clifton C. Edom , American photographer and educator (b. 1907)
1991 – John McIntire , American actor (b. 1907)
1994 – Pierre Boulle , French author (b. 1912)
1995 – Gerald Durrell , Indian-English zookeeper, author, and television host (b. 1925)
1998 – Richard Cassilly , American tenor and actor (b. 1927)
1999 – Huntz Hall , American actor and singer (b. 1919)
1999 – Ed Herlihy , American journalist and actor (b. 1909)
2001 – Jean-Pierre Aumont , French actor and screenwriter (b. 1911)
2001 – Johnnie Johnson , English air marshal and pilot (b. 1915)
2001 – Joseph Ransohoff , American surgeon and educator (b. 1915)
2005 – Martyn Bennett , Canadian-Scottish violinist (b. 1971)
2005 – Wes Wehmiller , American bass player (b. 1971)
2006 – Coretta Scott King , American author and activist (b. 1927)
2006 – Wendy Wasserstein , American playwright (b. 1950)
2007 – Nikos Kourkoulos , Greek actor (b. 1934)
2007 – Sidney Sheldon , American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
2008 – Marcial Maciel , Mexican 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)
2009 – Ingemar Johansson , Swedish boxer (b. 1932)
2009 – Neiliezhü Üsou , Indian preacher and theologian (b. 1941)
2010 – Fadil Ferati , Kosovar accountant and politician (b. 1960)
2011 – John Barry , English composer and conductor (b. 1933)
2011 – Charles Nolan , American fashion designer (b. 1957)
2012 – Abdelhamid Mehri , Algerian soldier and politician (b. 1926)
2012 – Doeschka Meijsing , Dutch author (b. 1947)
2013 – Gamal al-Banna , Egyptian author and scholar (b. 1920)
2013 – Patty Andrews , American singer (The Andrews Sisters ) (b. 1918)
2013 – George Witt , American baseball player and coach (b. 1931)
2014 – Jean Babilée , French dancer and choreographer (b. 1923)
2014 – Stefan Bałuk , Polish general (b. 1914)
2014 – William Motzing , American composer and conductor (b. 1937)
2014 – Arthur Rankin, Jr. , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
2015 – Carl Djerassi , Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (b. 1923)
2015 – Geraldine McEwan , English actress (b. 1932)
2015 – Gerrit Voorting , Dutch cyclist (b. 1923)
2015 – Zhelyu Zhelev , Bulgarian philosopher and politician; 2nd President of Bulgaria (b. 1935)
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