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Events on the 30th of January in history

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30 Jan 1018 Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
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30 Jan 1077 Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
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30 Jan 1349 Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
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30 Jan 1467 Battle at Velke Kostolany Hung king M
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30 Jan 1487 Bell chimes invented
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30 Jan 1522 Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland
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30 Jan 1544 Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland
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30 Jan 1592 Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
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30 Jan 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.
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30 Jan 1647 King Charles I handed over to English parliament
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30 Jan 1647 Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for
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30 Jan 1648 Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
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30 Jan 1648 Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of M
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30 Jan 1649 King Charles I of England is beheaded.
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30 Jan 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.
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30 Jan 1667 The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
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30 Jan 1667 Treaty of Andrussovo Russia & Poland sign peace treaty
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30 Jan 1703 The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
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30 Jan 1713 England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
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30 Jan 1774 Captain Cook reaches 71
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30 Jan 1781 Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland
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30 Jan 1789 Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.
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30 Jan 1790 The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
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30 Jan 1790 Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor
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30 Jan 1797 Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks
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30 Jan 1798 Representative Matthew Lyon (Vermont) spits in face of Representative Roger Griswold (Connecticut) in US House of Representatives, after an argument
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30 Jan 1800 US population 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
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30 Jan 1804 Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River
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30 Jan 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.
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30 Jan 1806 Prussia takes possession of Hanover
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30 Jan 1815 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 volumes
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30 Jan 1818 Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears"
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30 Jan 1820 Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
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30 Jan 1820 Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim)
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30 Jan 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.
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30 Jan 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.
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30 Jan 1835 Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington DC
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30 Jan 1841 A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
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30 Jan 1847 Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
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30 Jan 1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
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30 Jan 1853 Emperor Napoleon III marries Eug
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30 Jan 1854 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
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30 Jan 1858 William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom"
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30 Jan 1858 The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
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30 Jan 1858 Charles Hall
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30 Jan 1862 The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
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30 Jan 1862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched
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30 Jan 1877 Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces
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30 Jan 1879 French President MacMahon resigns
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30 Jan 1883 England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test
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30 Jan 1888 Harry Moses 297 not out for New South Wales against Victoria
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30 Jan 1889 John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope
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30 Jan 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.
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30 Jan 1889 Victoria beat New South Wales after following on (New South Wales all out 63 needed 76)
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30 Jan 1892 Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test
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30 Jan 1892 Captain Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out
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30 Jan 1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
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30 Jan 1894 US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Admiral Benham
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30 Jan 1895 C J Eady (Tasmania) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (vs Victoria)
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30 Jan 1895 SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed
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30 Jan 1895 Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years
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30 Jan 1902 The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
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30 Jan 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.
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30 Jan 1911 The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
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30 Jan 1911 The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
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30 Jan 1911 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
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30 Jan 1913 The British House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
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30 Jan 1913 House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill
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30 Jan 1915 German submarine attack on Le Havre
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30 Jan 1915 No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Victoria vs Tasmania
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30 Jan 1917 1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
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30 Jan 1919 Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army
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30 Jan 1920 Qu
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30 Jan 1921 French rapist-murderer Henri-D
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30 Jan 1922 World Law Day, 1st celebrated
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30 Jan 1922 Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over New South Wales
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30 Jan 1924 Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Victoria win over New South Wales
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30 Jan 1925 The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
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30 Jan 1925 Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople
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30 Jan 1927 Left wins national election in Th
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30 Jan 1928 Bradman scores 134 not out (225 mins, 13 fours) NSW vs. Vic
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30 Jan 1928 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US
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30 Jan 1928 Bradman scores 134 not out (225 minutes, 13 fours) New South Wales vs Victoria
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30 Jan 1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude" premieres in New York City NY
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30 Jan 1930 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya" premieres in Leningrad
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30 Jan 1931 Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater
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30 Jan 1932 Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval
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30 Jan 1933 "Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio
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30 Jan 1933 Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen
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30 Jan 1933 Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
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30 Jan 1933 "The Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC radio
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30 Jan 1933 German President von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor, Hitler forms government with Von Papen
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30 Jan 1933 Grimmett takes 7-86 for South Africa in Queensland 2nd inn, 13-135 for match
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30 Jan 1934 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by the US government, New York City NY
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30 Jan 1934 Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days
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30 Jan 1934 Hitler proclamation on German unified states
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30 Jan 1935 Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"
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30 Jan 1936 New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname
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30 Jan 1936 Fans asked to pick a new name for Boston Braves; they choose "The Bees" it doesn't catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season
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30 Jan 1936 Victoria need 442 to win against New South Wales, but lose, all out for 415
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30 Jan 1937 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death
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30 Jan 1939 Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews
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30 Jan 1939 Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile
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30 Jan 1940 Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London
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30 Jan 1940 Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race
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30 Jan 1940 Hassett's second 122 of the game for Victoria can't stop a New South Wales win
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30 Jan 1941 Australian troops conquer Derna Libya
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30 Jan 1942 World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.
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30 Jan 1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon
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30 Jan 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.
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30 Jan 1943 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin
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30 Jan 1943 German assault on French in Tunisia
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30 Jan 1943 German under officers shot down in Haarlem Netherlands
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30 Jan 1943 Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to General - field marshal
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30 Jan 1943 Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing
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30 Jan 1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean
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30 Jan 1944 World War II: American troops land on Majuro, Marshall Islands.
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30 Jan 1944 World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
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30 Jan 1944 US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands
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30 Jan 1945 "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die
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30 Jan 1945 German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed, 4,800 killed
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30 Jan 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.
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30 Jan 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.
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30 Jan 1945 German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die
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30 Jan 1946 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
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30 Jan 1948 Mahatma Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle, is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
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30 Jan 1948 5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
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30 Jan 1950 "Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV
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30 Jan 1951 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
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30 Jan 1952 Lehmer verifies 2^521-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime #
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30 Jan 1952 Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres
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30 Jan 1954 Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR
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30 Jan 1954 Italy's Fanfani government resigns
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30 Jan 1956 Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
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30 Jan 1956 African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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30 Jan 1956 Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed
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30 Jan 1956 KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
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30 Jan 1956 KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
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30 Jan 1957 US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"
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30 Jan 1957 US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"
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30 Jan 1958 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas, Texas
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30 Jan 1958 House of Lords passes bill allowing women in
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30 Jan 1958 Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars
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30 Jan 1958 Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello" premieres in New York City NY
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30 Jan 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.
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30 Jan 1959 Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test vs England, Adelaide Oval
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30 Jan 1959 Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh" premieres
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30 Jan 1960 The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
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30 Jan 1960 CIA oks Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
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30 Jan 1960 Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands
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30 Jan 1960 Riot curtails third day's play at Port-Of-Spain West Indies vs England
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30 Jan 1960 US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
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30 Jan 1961 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC
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30 Jan 1961 JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps
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30 Jan 1961 KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
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30 Jan 1961 Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide
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30 Jan 1962 UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)
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30 Jan 1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit
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30 Jan 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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30 Jan 1964 In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.
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30 Jan 1964 Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
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30 Jan 1964 Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail
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30 Jan 1964 Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam
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30 Jan 1965 "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3
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30 Jan 1965 Some one million people attend former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill's funeral, the biggest in the United Kingdom up to that point.
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30 Jan 1965 "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3
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30 Jan 1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill
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30 Jan 1966 -19
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30 Jan 1966 -27
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30 Jan 1966 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2 05.2)
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30 Jan 1966 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 11th string quartet
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30 Jan 1968 Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey"
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30 Jan 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.
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30 Jan 1968 Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on US embassy in Saigon
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30 Jan 1969 Beatles perform their last gig together, a free concert
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30 Jan 1969 The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
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30 Jan 1969 Beatles perform their last gig together, a 42-minute free concert on the roof of Apple HQs
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30 Jan 1969 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
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30 Jan 1971 "Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 19 performances
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30 Jan 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.
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30 Jan 1971 "Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City NY after 19 performances
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30 Jan 1971 Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, vs England
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30 Jan 1971 UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak
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30 Jan 1972 Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
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30 Jan 1972 The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers open fire on and kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland.
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30 Jan 1972 Bloody Sunday British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die
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30 Jan 1973 1st Kiss concert (Queens NY)
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30 Jan 1973 Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts
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30 Jan 1973 26th NHL All-Star Game East beat West 5-4 at New York Rangers
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30 Jan 1973 KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY)
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30 Jan 1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR
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30 Jan 1975 The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
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30 Jan 1976 1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg
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30 Jan 1976 George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
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30 Jan 1976 William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA
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30 Jan 1977 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever
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30 Jan 1977 Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (New South Wales vs Queesland)
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30 Jan 1977 Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame
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30 Jan 1978 Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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30 Jan 1978 Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio
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30 Jan 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.
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30 Jan 1979 Rhodesia agrees to new constitution
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30 Jan 1980 Edward Albee's "Lady from Dubuque" premieres in New York City NY
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30 Jan 1981 8th American Music Award Kenny Rogers wins
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30 Jan 1982 Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
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30 Jan 1982 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
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30 Jan 1983 Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ
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30 Jan 1983 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic
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30 Jan 1983 Super Bowl XVII Washington Redskins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena; Super Bowl MVP John Riggins, Washington, Running Back
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30 Jan 1988 Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS vs N Tvl)
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30 Jan 1989 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis and George Michael wins
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30 Jan 1989 Closure of the American embassy in Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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30 Jan 1989 Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
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30 Jan 1989 Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident
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30 Jan 1989 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
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30 Jan 1989 Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore
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30 Jan 1991 Battle for Khafji in Saudi Arabia (2nd day)
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30 Jan 1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands
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30 Jan 1993 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism
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30 Jan 1993 67th Australian Open Women's Tennis Monica Seles beat Graf (46 63 62)
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30 Jan 1994 Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grandmaster.
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30 Jan 1994 68th Australian Open Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (60 62)
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30 Jan 1994 82nd Australian Open Men's Tennis Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (76 64 64)
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30 Jan 1994 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76)
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30 Jan 1994 Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets
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30 Jan 1994 Super Bowl XXVIII Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta; Super Bowl MVP Emmitt Smith, Dallas, Running Back
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30 Jan 1995 Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"
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30 Jan 1995 Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
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30 Jan 1995 22nd American Music Award Boyz II Men & Ace of Base win
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30 Jan 1995 Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air
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30 Jan 1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured
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30 Jan 1997 Minuteman III launches
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30 Jan 1998 All-Star Florida Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires
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30 Jan 1998 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis IN on WNAP 93.1 FM
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30 Jan 1998 Paul Simon's "The Capeman" premieres
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30 Jan 2000 Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
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30 Jan 2000 NFL Pro Bowl
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30 Jan 2003 The Kingdom of Belgium officially recognizes same-sex marriages.
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30 Jan 2013 Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
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