Historical Events on January 30

Events 1 - 200 of 221

• 1018 The Holy Roman Empire and Poland conclude the Peace of Bautzen

• 1349 Black Death Massacre: Jews (except pregnant women and children) are burnt to death on suspicion of poisoning the community during the Bubonic Plague, in Freiburg im Breisgau, Strasbourg, Holy Roman Empire; part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe
• 1349 Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king
• 1467 Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hungarian 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
• 1607 Massive flooding in England destroys around 200 square miles of coastline and results in approximately 2,000 casualties

• 1648 Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending the Thirty Years' War

• 1667 Treaty/Truce of Andrusovo signed between Tsardom of Russia & Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• 1713 England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty

• 1790 Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor

• 1797 US Congress refuses to accept 1st petition from African American
• 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; African American population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
• 1804 Scottish explorer 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.

• 1820 British explorer Edward Bransfield aboard Williams sights Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica, claiming it for Britain
• 1826 The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the northwest coast of Wales opens, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge

• 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 Hallé 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 Patrice de Mac-Mahon resigns
• 1883 England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test
• 1888 Harry Moses 297 not out for NSW against Victoria

• 1889 Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76)
• 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
• 1907 Korean National Debt Redemption Movement started by Seo Sang-dong of Daegu, attempt by the Korean public to repay debt to Japan to avoid further colonization [1]
• 1911 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
• 1911 The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy
• 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
• 1921 French rapist-murderer Henri-Desire Landru sentenced to death
• 1922 World Law Day 1st celebrated

• 1924 Great Britain clinch inaugural Olympic curling gold medal with a 46-4 win over France at the Chamonix Games
• 1924 Norway’s Thorleif Haug claims first of 3 gold medals at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; wins 50k cross country in a Norwegian sweep of the medals; also 18k and Nordic combined champion
• 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

• 1930 Russia launches their 1st radiosonde - a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere to measure various parameters and transmit them by radio to a ground receiver- from Pavlovsk, USSR.

• 1932 Clarrie Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval
• 1933 "Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio

• 1933 Clarrie Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match

• 1934 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC
• 1934 Adolf Hitler's proclamation on German unified states

• 1936 New owners of baseball's Boston Braves survey newspaper journalists to pick a new team nickname; known as 'Bees' in 1940 but return to 'Braves' in 1941
• 1939 Adolf Hitler threatens Jews during his speech to the German Reichstag (Parliament)
• 1939 Heavy aftershocks destroy some of Chile

• 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 the island Ambon, part of the Dutch East Indies (Allied forces surrender 3rd Feb)
• 1943 Members of the Dutch Protestant resistance against the German occupation begin publishing underground newspaper "Trouw" (Loyal) in the Netherlands
• 1943 WWII: 6 British Mosquito planes bomb Berlin, Germany in daylight

• 1943 WWII: Battle of Rennell Island, in the Solomon Islands - Japanese aerial torpedoes sink USS Chicago, a US Navy cruiser
• 1943 WWII: German assault on French in Tunisia
• 1943 WWII: German under officers shot down in Haarlem Netherlands
• 1944 The Battle of Cisterna begins in central Italy
• 1944 World War II: United States troops land on Majuro, Marshall Islands
• 1945 American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied POWs from Japanese at Cabanatuan
• 1945 German passenger ship Wilhelm Gustloff torpedoed off Danzig by a Soviet submarine - killing about 9,000 people, the world's greatest maritime disaster
• 1946 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime

• 1948 V Winter Olympic Games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
• 1950 "Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV
• 1951 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
• 1952 American mathematician D.H. Lehmer and computer programmer R. M. Robinson verify 2^521-1 and 2^607-1 as Mersenne-prime numbers, using U.S. National Bureau of Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) at the Institute for Numerical Analysis at the University of California, Los Angeles
• 1952 Korean War truce talks deadlock
• 1952 Paul Creston's 4th Symphony premieres by the National Symphony Orchestra
• 1954 Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR
• 1954 Fanfani government of Italy resigns

• 1956 Hallgeir Brenden of Norway wins Olympic 15k cross country gold medal at the Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games; his 2nd career Olympic title after taking out the 18k event in Oslo (1952)

• 1956 KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1956 KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1956 Soviet 500m speed skating champion Yevgeni Grishin wins 2nd gold medal of the Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics when he dead heats teammate Yuri Mikhatlov in the 1,500m in world record 2:08.6

• 1958 1st 2-way moving sidewalk goes into service in Dallas, Texas
• 1958 Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello" premieres in NYC
• 1958 MLB Commissioner Ford Frick announces that players and coaches, rather than fans, will vote on selections for the All-Star Game; vote returns to the fans in 1970
• 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 Danish ocean liner MS Hans Hedtoft sinks on maiden voyage after striking an iceberg off the coast of Greenland;, 95 die

• 1960 African National Party is founded in Chad
• 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

• 1961 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC

• 1961 KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting

• 1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit
• 1962 Laughter epidemic begins at a girls' mission school in Kashasha, Tanganyika, goes on to affect 14 schools and over 1000 people

• 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 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

• 1966 -19°F (-28°C), Corinth, Mississippi (state record)
• 1966 -27°F (-33°C), New Market, Alabama (state record)

• 1968 1968 NFL Draft: Ron Yary from USC first pick by Minnesota Vikings
• 1968 Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey"
• 1968 Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese launch the Tet offensive against South Vietnames and US forces
• 1969 The Beatles perform their last live gig, a 42 minute concert on the roof of Apple Corps HQ in London, England
• 1969 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere

• 1971 UCLA starts 88 basketball game winning streak
• 1972 Bloody Sunday: 27 unarmed civilians are shot (14 are killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles'
• 1972 Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations
• 1973 1973 NFL Draft: John Matuszak from University of Tampa first pick by Houston Oilers
• 1973 Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping
• 1973 Rock band Kiss plays their 1st show at the Coventry Club in Queens, NY
• 1974 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1976 William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); George H. W. Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
• 1977 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched US entertainment show ever (100 million)

• 1977 Edward W. Stack replaces Paul Kerr ad president of baseball's Hall of Fame
• 1978 Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

• 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 play "Lady from Dubuque" premieres in NYC
• 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 Super Bowl XVII, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA: Washington Redskins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17; MVP: John Riggins, Washington, RB
• 1988 Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS v N Tvl)
• 1989 American Olympic diving silver medallist Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident; serves 4 years
• 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 The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.

• 1991 Iraqi troops gain control of Al Khafji inside the Saudi Arabian border

• 1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands
• 1993 100,000 Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism

• 1994 Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.

• 1995 Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air
• 1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, killing 42 and wounding 296
• 1995 Jazz guitarist Kevin Eubanks officially becomes bandleader of "The Tonight Show"
• 1995 Norway's Statoil announces a newly formed consortium that will supply Norwegian natural gas to the European continent
• 1995 Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
• 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
• 1996 Future Basketball Hall of Famer Magic Johnson comes out of a 5 year retirement; helps LA Lakers to 128-118 win over Golden State at the Great Western Forum with 19 points, 8 rebounds & 10 assists
• 1996 Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
• 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
• 2000 Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
• 2000 Super Bowl XXXIV, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA: St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans, 23-16; MVP: Kurt Warner, St. Louis, QB

• 2003 Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.

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