Historical Events on January 30 (Part 2)

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• 2003 Richard Reid sentenced to life in prison for attempting to bomb an American Airlines flight with 197 on board
• 2005 Denmark's Queen Margrethe unveils monument at North Atlantic Wharf, Copenhagen, to the 95 people lost on MS Hans Hedtoft
• 2007 "Lost Without U" single released by Robin Thicke (Billboard Song of the Year 2007)

• 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 Boko Haram militants on motorcycles attack Dalori village near Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing at least 65 and injuring 136
• 2017 Scientists in central China reveal oldest known human ancestor - 540-million-year-old Saccorhytus in a fossil
• 2018 Houston forward James Harden puts up highest scoring triple-double in NBA history (60 points, 10 rebounds, 11 assists) as the Rockets beat Orlando Magic, 114-107 in Houston
• 2019 Continuous 24 hr church mass lasting 97 days to prevent deportation of Armenian asylum seekers ends after Dutch authorities reconsider at Protestant Bethel Church in The Hague
• 2019 Peter Paul Rubens’s 1608 drawing "Nude Study of Young Man with Raised Arms" sells for $8.2 million at auction in New York
• 2019 Russian Senator Rauf Arashukov arrested within parliament on two murder charges
• 2019 Scientists reveal discovery of cavity six miles long, 1,000 feet deep under Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, leading to fears it might collapse and raise sea levels by two feet
• 2020 The World Health Organization declares COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern at a meeting in Geneva
• 2022 Kurdish-led militia and American forces regain control of Sinaa prison in Hasaka, Syria, after a week-log assault by ISIS fighters, with the loss of 500 lives [1]
• 2022 Portugal's ruling Socialist party headed by Prime Minister António Costwin wins an unexpected outright majority in country's snap election
• 2023 Suicide bomb blast kills at least 100 and injures 157 people at a mosque for police officers in Peshawar, Pakistan [1]

• 2024 Around 400 people have died due to drought-induced starvation in Ethiopia’s Tigray and Amhara regions confirm local authorities raising fears of famine [1]

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