Notable Historical Events on January 30th
January 30th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1077 |
Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV |
1349 |
Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king |
1349 |
Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred |
1467 |
Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hung king Mátyás Corvinus beats Bratrici |
1487 |
Bell chimes invented |
1522 |
Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland |
1544 |
Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland |
1592 |
Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII |
1647 |
Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400 |
1648 |
Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending the Thirty Years War |
1661 |
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years. |
1667 |
Treaty/Truce of Andrusovo signed between Tsardom of Russia & Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth |
1713 |
England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty |
1774 |
Captain Cook reaches 71°10' south, 1820km from south pole (record) |
1781 |
Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland |
1790 |
Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor |
1797 |
Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks |
1798 |
Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives, after an argument |
1800 |
US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%) |
1804 |
Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River |
1806 |
Prussia takes possession of Hanover |
1806 |
The original Lower Trenton Toll Bridge, which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened. A later bridge opened in 1935 is also known as the Trenton Makes - the World Takes Bridge. |
1815 |
Burned US Library of Congress reestablished with Thomas Jefferson's 6500 vols |
1818 |
Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears" |
1820 |
British explorer Edward Bransfield aboard Williams sights Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica claims for Britain |
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 |
Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington DC in 1st attempted assassination of a US President |
1841 |
A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. |
1847 |
Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco |
1854 |
1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast |
1858 |
Charles Halle founds Halle Orchestra in Manchester, England |
1858 |
William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom" |
1862 |
USS Monitor, the US Navy's 1st ironclad warship launched |
1877 |
Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces |
1879 |
French President MacMahon resigns |
1883 |
England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test |
1888 |
Harry Moses 297 not out for NSW against Victoria |
1889 |
John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope |
1889 |
Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76) |
1889 |
Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling. |
1892 |
Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test |
1892 |
Capt Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out |
1894 |
Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit |
1894 |
US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham |
1895 |
C J Eady (Tas) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (v Vic) |
1895 |
SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed |
1895 |
Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years |
1902 |
Britain and Japan sign a treaty after months of negotiating which commits each country to supporting an independent China and Korea, although it acknowledges Japan's 'special interest' in Korea |
1911 |
1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba |
1913 |
UK House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill |
1915 |
German submarine attack on Le Havre |
1915 |
No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Vic v Tas |
1919 |
Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army |
1921 |
French rapist-murderer Henri-Desire Landru sentenced to death |
1922 |
Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over NSW |
1922 |
World Law Day, 1st celebrated |
1924 |
Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Vic win over NSW |
1925 |
Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople |
1927 |
Left wins national election in Thuringen |
1928 |
1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US |
1928 |
Bradman scores 134 not out (225 mins, 13 fours) NSW v Vic |
1928 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," premieres in NYC |
1930 |
Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya," premieres in Leningrad |
1930 |
The world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR. |
1931 |
Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater |
1932 |
Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval |
1933 |
"Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio |
1933 |
Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen |
1933 |
Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match |
1934 |
1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC |
1934 |
Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 yrs 298 days |
1934 |
Hitler proclamation on German unified states |
1935 |
Ezra Pound meets Benito Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos" |
1936 |
New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname |
1936 |
Victoria need 442 to win against NSW, but lose, all out for 415 They pick "The Bees" it doesn't catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season |
1937 |
2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death |
1939 |
Hitler threatens the Jews during his speech to the German Reichstag (parliament) |
1939 |
Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile |
1940 |
Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London |
1940 |
Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race |
1940 |
Hassett's second 122 of the game for Vic can't stop a NSW win |
1941 |
Australian troops conquer Derna, Libya |
1942 |
Japanese troops land on Ambon |
1943 |
6 British Mosquitos bomb Berlin in daylight |
1943 |
German assault on French in Tunisia |
1943 |
German under officers shot down in Haarlem Neth |
1943 |
Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to Field Marshal |
1943 |
Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing |
1943 |
USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean |
1944 |
US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands |
1944 |
World War II: United States troops land on Majuro. |
1945 |
"Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 9,400 die |
1946 |
1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime |
1948 |
5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland |
1948 |
Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse |
1950 |
"Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV |
1951 |
Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio |
1952 |
Lehmer verifies: 2^521-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime # |
1952 |
Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres |
1954 |
Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR |
1954 |
Fanfani government of Italy resigns |
1956 |
Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes" |
1956 |
KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Martin Luther King Jr.s home bombed |
1957 |
US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine" |
1958 |
1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx |
1958 |
Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars |
1958 |
Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello," premieres in NYC |
1958 |
UK House of Lords passes bill allowing women to take seats |
1959 |
Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test v England, Adelaide Oval |
1959 |
Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh," premieres |
1960 |
CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart) |
1960 |
Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands |
1960 |
Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI v England |
1960 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss |
1960 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins |
1961 |
Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC |
1961 |
JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps |
1961 |
KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1961 |
Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide |
1962 |
UN General Assembly censures Portugal over Angola |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1962 |
2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit |
1964 |
Military coup of Gen Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam |
1964 |
Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail |
1965 |
"The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3 |
1965 |
State funeral of Sir Winston Churchill |
1966 |
-19°F (-28°C), Corinth, Mississippi (state record) |
1966 |
-27°F (-33°C), New Market, Alabama (state record) |
1966 |
Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:05.2) |
1966 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 11th string quartet |
1968 |
Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey" |
1968 |
Vietcong launches Tet offensive on US embassy in Saigon |
1969 |
US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere |
1969 |
Beatles perform last live gig, a 42-min concert on roof of Apple HQ, London |
1971 |
"Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 19 performances |
1971 |
Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, v England |
1971 |
UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak |
1972 |
'Bloody Sunday': 27 unarmed civilians are shot (of whom 14 were killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles' |
1972 |
Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth |
1973 |
26th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at NY Rangers |
1973 |
Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts |
1973 |
KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY) |
1974 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1976 |
1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg |
1976 |
George H W Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977) |
1976 |
William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA |
1977 |
8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever |
1977 |
Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW v Qld) |
1977 |
Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame |
1978 |
Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1978 |
Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio |
1979 |
Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) agrees to new constitution |
1979 |
Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo. |
1980 |
Edward Albee's "Lady from Dubuque," premieres in NYC |
1981 |
8th American Music Award: Barbra Streisand & Kenny Rogers win |
1982 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners |
1982 |
Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner". |
1983 |
Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ |
1983 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic |
1983 |
Super Bowl XVII: Wash Red Skins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena Super Bowl MVP: John Riggins, Washington, RB |
1988 |
Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS v N Tvl) |
1989 |
16th American Music Award: Randy Travis & George Michael wins |
1989 |
Five Pharaoh sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor |
1989 |
Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter |
1989 |
Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore |
1989 |
Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident |
1989 |
The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes. |
1992 |
Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands |
1993 |
100,000 Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism |
1993 |
67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (4-6 6-3 6-2) |
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 (76 64 64) |
1994 |
Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76) |
1994 |
Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wkts |
1994 |
Super Bowl XXVIII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta Super Bowl MVP: Emmitt Smith, Dallas, RB |
1994 |
Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master. |
1995 |
22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men & Ace of Base win |
1995 |
Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air |
1995 |
Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured |
1995 |
Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show" |
1995 |
Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease. |
1995 |
Norway's Statoil announces a newly formed consortium that will supply Norwegian natural gas to the European continent |
1996 |
Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit. |
1996 |
Commander of the U.S. Fifth Fleet Scott Redd states that Iran test-fired a new anti-ship missile near the Strait of Hormuz |
1997 |
Minuteman III launches |
1998 |
All-Star Fla Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires |
1998 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis IN on WNAP 93.1 FM |
1998 |
Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres |
2000 |
Super Bowl XXXIV: St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans, 23-16 at the Georgia Dome Atlanta MVP: Kurt Warner, St. Louis, QB |
2000 |
Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169. |
2003 |
Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage. |
2011 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 55-41 |
2013 |
South Korea successfully launches its rocket Naro-1 which was carrying a scientific satellite |
2014 |
24 hostages are killed after 6 suicide bombers temporarily take over the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation in Baghdad |
2016 |
Angelique Kerber Upsets Serena Williams to Win Australian Open |
2016 |
New York Times endorses Hillary Clinton for president |
2016 |
Children among 33 migrants dead after boat sinks off Turkish coast |
2016 |
Blac Chyna arrested for public intoxication at Austin airport |
2016 |
US Navy sends ship near disputed island in South China Sea |
2016 |
5 killed in British Columbia avalanche |
2016 |
1 killed, 6 hurt in shootings, stabbing at Denver motorcycle show |
2016 |
Liz Cheney running for Congress in Wyoming |
2017 |
Quebec Mosque Shooting Kills at Least 6, and 2 Suspects Are Arrested |
2017 |
Canadian PM say mosque shooting a 'terrorist attack on Muslims' |
2017 |
Tens of thousands in US cities protest Trump immigration order |
2018 |
House panel votes to release Republican memo alleging anti-Trump bias |
2018 |
Indians removing Chief Wahoo logo from uniforms in 2019 |
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