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History on the 30th of January

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30 Jan 0435 RELIGIOUS Rome recognized the Vandal territories in Northwest Africa as "federati," in an effort to stave off their invasion of Italy. (The invasion was successfully postponed for 20 years.)
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30 Jan 1750 RELIGIOUS In Colonial America, Rev. Jonathan Mayhew of Boston delivered a sermon entitled, "Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission." The sermon attacked both the divine right of kings and ecclesiastical absolutism.
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30 Jan 1788 RELIGIOUS Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'Alas for the rich! They are so soon offended.'
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30 Jan 1839 RELIGIOUS Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'God feeds the wild flowers on the lonely mountain side without the help of man.... So God can feed his own planted ones without the help of man, by the sweetly falling dew of his Spirit.'
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30 Jan 1867 RELIGIOUS The American branch of the Evangelical Alliance was organized at the Bible House in New York City, with William E. Dodge elected president.
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30 Jan 1917 WW2 Henry Arnold was ordered to travel to the Panama Canal Zone in search for locations to build a new airfield. 
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30 Jan 1931 WW2 Augusta was commissioned into service. 
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30 Jan 1933 WW2 Werner von Blomberg was promoted to the rank of General der Infanterie. 
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30 Jan 1933 WW2 Adolf Hitler was named the Chancellor of Germany; three of the eleven cabinet posts were given to Nazi Party members. President Paul von Hindenburg required Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen to accompany Hitler for all meetings between the President and the Chancellor, thinking that would be sufficient to prevent Hitler from committing any drastic changes. As soon as 1700 hours on the very same day, Hitler made his first bid for greater power by demanding a re-election of the Reichstag, a motion which was defeated at this time. 
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30 Jan 1933 WW2 Prince Wilhelm married Princess Marianne of Prussia in Tabarz, Thüringen, Germany. 
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30 Jan 1934 WW2 The Reichsrat (the second chamber of the German government) was abolished by the Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich. At the same time all provincial parliaments lost their right to draft local legislation. 
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30 Jan 1935 WW2 A decree for the Structure of the German Commune was published. This gave the NSDAF the authority to approve all office holders at communal level. Most local town mayors were already Nazi Party members and this decree strengthened the Party's control over every subsequent public appointment. 
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30 Jan 1936 WW2 Josias was promoted to the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer. 
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30 Jan 1937 WW2 Adolf Hitler proclaimed that Germany would continue to guarantee Dutch and Belgian neutrality. 
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30 Jan 1937 WW2 The Enabling Act of Mar 1933 was renewed by the German Reichstag even though Frick's Interior Ministry had wanted the government to have a larger say, and the Reichstag to give formal assent to new laws. The formal legal principle was retained that laws were, in theory, approved by "the Reich government as a collegium", and not by Hitler alone (this despite the fact that Hitler had long abandoned any pretence what the State was governed by a collective leadership, and instead issued decrees and directives on his own behalf). In a speech to the Reichstag upon the renewal, Hitler formally declared the German withdrawal from the Treaty of Versailles. 
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30 Jan 1937 WW2 The keel of submarine Scirè was laid down by Odero-Terni-Orlando in Muggiano, Lerici, La Spezia, Italy. 
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30 Jan 1938 WW2 As reported by the International Committee later, in the Chinese capital of Nanjing at about 1700 hours, Mr. Sone of the Nanjing Theological Seminary was overwhelmed by several hundred women seeking shelter. "One old woman 62 years old went home near Hansimen and Japanese soldiers came at night and wanted to rape her. She said she was too old. So the soldiers rammed a stick up her. But she survived to come back." 
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30 Jan 1939 WW2 In a Reichstag speech, Adolf Hitler spoke of German-Polish peace and warned that if the "international Jewish financiers" threatened the world with another war, he would embark on eliminating the Jews to rid the world of this threat. 
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30 Jan 1939 WW2 Josias was awarded the Golden Party Badge. 
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30 Jan 1939 WW2 The British Admiralty published its war plans for the Royal Navy. 
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30 Jan 1940 WW2 German aircraft bombed shipping in the English Channel and the North Sea, sinking British cargo steamers Highwave, Giralda, and Bancrest off the Orkney Islands in northern Scotland. British ship Voreda was badly damaged and beached near Winterton, England. 
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30 Jan 1940 WW2 German submarine U-55 sank British tanker Vaclite, part of convoy OA-80G, 50 miles off of Land's End in southwestern England at 0700 hours. The crew of 35 was rescued by Italian steamer Pollenzo. At 1100 hours, U-55 sank Greek ship Keramlai. Later that day, U-55 was found and depth charged by British (HMS Whitshed, and HMS Fowey) and French (Valmy and Guépard) destroyers and a No. 228 Squadron RAF Sunderland aircraft. 41 of the German crew surrendered; Kapitänleutnant Werner Heidel chose to go down with his ship. 
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30 Jan 1940 WW2 German torpedo boat Iltis mis-identified German submarine U-15 as a hostile vessel and rammed her 50 miles north of Wilhelmshaven, Germany. U-15 sank, killing the entire crew of 25. 
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30 Jan 1940 WW2 The first confirmed U-Boat kill by an aircraft occurred when British destroyer HMS Whitshed, British sloop HMS Fowey, French destroyer Valmy, French destroyer Guépard, and a British No. 228 Squadron S.25 Sunderland aircraft sank German submarine U-55 with depth charges. 
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30 Jan 1941 WW2 Rudolf Höss was promoted to the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer. 
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30 Jan 1941 WW2 German submarine U-94 attacked Allied convoy SC-19 northwest of Ireland at 0310 hours, sinking British ship Rushpool; the entire crew of 40 survived and rescued by destroyer HMS Antelope. Rushpool was the sixth and final ship sunk in a series of German submarine attacks in 24 hours, totaling 33,723 tons. 
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30 Jan 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Upholder attacked Italian ships Motia and Delfin 30 miles north of Zavia, Libya. Italian torpedo boat Aldebaran chased off HMS Upholder before she was able to damage any Italian ships. 
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30 Jan 1941 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was promoted to the rank of Untersturmführer; he would not receive the notification for this promotion until Mar 1941, however. 
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30 Jan 1941 WW2 Germany announced that any ship bringing goods into Britain, regardless of nationality, would be attacked. 
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30 Jan 1941 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria was promoted to the rank of State Security General Commissar. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 British troops in the southern tip of British Malaya completed the withdraw into Singapore, thus marking the start of the siege. After sundown, British gunboats HMS Dragonfly and HMS Scorpion once again sailed for Rengit to evacuate the last of the enveloped British troops there. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 Operation Oiled: 7 British Stirling bombers were launched from RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland 0030 hours, and 8 Halifax bombers were launched from the same location between 0204 and 0234 hours. Their target was the German battleship Tirpitz in Norway. None of them reached their target due to bad weather. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 Erwin Rommel was promoted to the rank of Generaloberst; at the same time, the Panzergruppe Afrika was renamed the Panzerarmee Afrika. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 German submarine U-106 sank US tanker Rochester 80 kilometers off Norfolk, Virginia, United States at 1805 hours, killing 3 of 35 aboard. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese 55th Infantry Division captured the airfield at Moulmein, Burma. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 800 men of the Japanese Special Naval Landing Force and 4,000 Japanese Army troops landed on the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies, covered from above by carrier aircraft of Hiryu and Soryu. Without air support, the 2,800 Dutch and 1,100 Australian troops withdrew toward Passo, failing to destroy bridges behind them. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 400 Japanese troops landed at Adang Bay and began a 155-mile trek across jungles to assault Bandjermasin, the capital of Dutch Borneo. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 The British 1st Armoured Division in Libya withdrew toward Gazala. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-64 sank Indian freighter Jalatarang 62 miles southeast of Madras, India. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 German bombers heavily damaged British minesweeping trawler HMS Loch Alsh 45 miles east of Grimsby, England, United Kingdom; she would sink as she was being towed to port for repairs. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Thunderbolt attacked an Axis convoy with three torpedoes 6 miles west of Lefkada, Greece at 0939 hours; all torpedoes missed; escorting Italian torpedo boat Solferino counterattacked with 29 depth charges without success. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Thorn sank Italian submarine Medusa off Pola, Yugoslavia at 1410 hours; 57 were killed, 1 survived. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese troops executed Australian prisoner of war Captain Herbert Silverman at Rabaul, New Britain. On the same day, Australian Thomas McBride Price led 5 Catalina aircraft on an attack on Rabaul, claiming one bomb hit; Price reported the presence of newly arrived large anti-aircraft weapons. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 Shokaku departed Truk, Caroline Islands for Yokosuka, Japan to pick up aircraft. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 Naka departed Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 Adolf Hitler spoke at the Berlin Sports Palace, threatening the Jews of the world with annihilation. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille arrived in Benghazi, Libya. 
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30 Jan 1942 WW2 German Luftwaffe group I./KG 100, flying He 111 bombers, was ordered to move from Focsani, Romania to Saky, Ukraine. They were to fly raids against Soviet shipping in the Black Sea and supply columns along the Black Sea coast. 
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30 Jan 1943 WW2 German troops defeated French troops and captured Faïd Pass, Tunisia. 
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30 Jan 1943 WW2 Battle of Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands ended with a Japanese victory and the sinking of USS Chicago. 
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30 Jan 1943 WW2 HMS Samphire (Lieutenant Commander F. T. Renny) was torpedoed and sunk by the Italian submarine Platino off Bougie, Algeria. 
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30 Jan 1943 WW2 Erich Raeder was officially relieved of his duty as the head of the German Navy. 
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30 Jan 1943 WW2 The repair work on light cruiser Voroshilov completed. 
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30 Jan 1943 WW2 Satoru Anabuki, flying Ki-43 fighter "Fubuki", shot down a B-25 bomber over Toungoo, Burma, his 21st victory. 
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30 Jan 1943 WW2 The British RAF's first daylight raid on Berlin, Germany was completed by No. 105 and No. 139 Squadrons' Mosquito aircraft. 
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30 Jan 1943 WW2 In Germany, Hermann Göring publicly noted that the defense and sacrifice at Stalingrad, Russia would go down in history as a heroic tale. 
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30 Jan 1943 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan and arrived at Yokohama, Japan later on the same day. 
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30 Jan 1943 WW2 Soviet troops reached Red Square in central Stalingrad, Russia. 
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30 Jan 1944 WW2 Submarine Becuna was launched, sponsored by the wife of Commander George C. Crawford. 
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30 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Finback damaged a fishing trawler with gunfire in the East China Sea. 
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30 Jan 1944 WW2 German submarine U-278 fatally damaged Allied arctic convoy escort HMS Hardy; HMS Venus scuttled HMS Hardy after the damaged destroyer was abandoned. 
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30 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Seahorse sank Japanese cargo ship Toko Maru south of Japan, which she had been chasing for many hours, hitting her with all three of three torpedoes fired. 
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30 Jan 1944 WW2 Camp Four of the Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO) in Xamba, Suiyuan Province, China sent its first weather report to the SACO headquarters in Chongqing, China. 
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30 Jan 1944 WW2 534 RAF aircraft (440 Lancaster, 82 Halifax, and 12 Mosquito) attacked Berlin, Germany; 33 aircraft were lost. 
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30 Jan 1944 WW2 Robert Johnson shot down a German Me 410 heavy fighter and a Bf 109 fighter over Lingen, Germany. 
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30 Jan 1944 WW2 Allied forces attacked out of the Anzio, Italy beachhead, advancing toward Cisterna and Campoleone, but none of the two forces would be able to capture the objectives; during the process, an entire US Army Ranger battalion was destroyed. 
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30 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Alabama bombarded Japanese positions on Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 Douglas MacArthur ordered Major General Verne Mudge of the US 1st Cavalry Division to conduct a rapid advance on Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 About 500 Allied prisoners of war were rescued at Cabanatuan, Luzon, Philippine Islands by a raid conducted by the US Army. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 German passenger liner Wilhelm Gustloff was attacked and sunk by a Soviet submarine off Gotenhafen, East Prussia, Germany (now Gdynia, Poland), killing 8,000 of the 9,000 passengers onboard. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Kete arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her first war patrol. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was ordered to join the Army Group Vistula on the Eastern Front. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 Albert Speer noted to Adolf Hitler that, having lost the Silesia region to Soviet forces, Germany had now lost an important source of coal and steel, the war was now lost. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 While transporting civilians from Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Germany, German Navy passenger ship Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk by Soviet submarine S-13, taking somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 lives, possibly making it the greatest loss of life in a maritime disaster in history. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: The first WAVE officer reported for duty this date. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Bergall sank a Japanese transport in the South China Sea, hitting her with 1 of 1 torpedo. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Luce departed for Mindoro, Philippine Islands. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 Russian monarchist Vasili Shulgin, who had been arrested in Yugoslavia in Dec 1944, was brought to Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, Russia. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 The British Government called on every firm and factory to cut the use of gas and electricity by 10 percent without jeopardising essential war work. 
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30 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Spot arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her first war patrol. 
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30 Jan 1946 WW2 HMS Activity was placed in Category B Reserve. 
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30 Jan 1946 WW2 Johann Georg Richert was found guilty and was executed in Minsk, Byelorussia. 
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30 Jan 1947 WW2 Shigeru Yoshida was made the Minister of Agriculture. 
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30 Jan 1948 WW2 Indian political leader Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic in New Dehli, India. 
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30 Jan 1948 WW2 The Avro 688 Tudor Mark IV aircarft which Arthur Coningham traveled aboard disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle some time between 0304 hours and 0350 hours. 
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