30 January
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30 January |
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| 1077 Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV | ||
| 1349 Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king | ||
| 1349 Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred | ||
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1467 Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hung king M ty s Corvinus beats Bratr¡ci | |
| 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 | ||
| 1606 Sir Everard Digby, Thomas Winter, John Grant and Thomas Bates, conspirators in the "Gunpowder Plot" to blow up Britain's Houses of Parliament, were executed. | ||
| 1647 King Charles I handed over to English parliament | ||
| 1647 Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament | ||
| 1648 Treaties were signed ending the Eighty Years War between Spain and the United Provinces of the Netherlands. | ||
| 1649 King Charles I was beheaded in London for treason. | ||
| 1667 Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia & Poland sign peace treaty | ||
| 1713 England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty | ||
| 1774 Capt Cook reaches 71° 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record) | ||
| 1781 Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland | ||
| 1790 The first purpose-built lifeboat, The Original, was launched on the River Tyne in England. | ||
| 1797 Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks | ||
| 1804 Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River | ||
| 1806 Prussia takes possession of Hanover | ||
| 1815 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols | ||
| 1820 Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim) | ||
| 1835 President Andrew Jackson survived the first-ever assassination attempt on a U.S. president. | ||
| 1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco | ||
| 1853 Emperor Napoleon III marries Eugenie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman | ||
| 1858 The Halle Orchestra was founded by Charles Halle in Manchester, England | ||
| 1862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) 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 | ||
| 1889 Crown Prince Franz Karl Josef Rudolf and his mistress, Marie Vetsera, committed suicide at the imperial hunting lodge of Mayerling, Austria. | ||
| 1889 John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope | ||
| 1892 Capt Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out | ||
| 1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit | ||
| 1895 SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed | ||
| 1902 Britain and Japan signed a treaty providing for the independence of China and Korea. | ||
| 1911 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba | ||
| 1913 House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill | ||
| 1915 German submarine attack on Le Havre | ||
| 1921 French rapist-murderer Henri-D‚sir‚ Landru sentenced to death | ||
| 1925 Turkish govt throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople | ||
| 1928 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US | ||
| 1933 Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms govt with Von Papen | ||
| 1933 German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor. On the same date in 1937, Hitler told the Reichstag that Germany was withdrawing its signature from the Versailles Treaty. | ||
| 1934 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC | ||
| 1934 Hitler proclamation on German unified states | ||
| 1937 13 leading Communists were sentenced to death for participating in a plot, allegedly led by Leon Trotsky, to overthrow the Soviet regime and assassinate its leaders. | ||
| 1939 Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile | ||
| 1941 Australian troops conquer Derna Libya | ||
| 1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon | ||
| 1943 The British Air Force carried out the first daylight bombing raid on Berlin. | ||
| 1943 Admiral Karl Doenitz was appointed commander-in-chief of the German Navy in place of Admiral Erich Raeder. | ||
| 1943 German assault on French in Tunisia | ||
| 1945 The Duke of Gloucester became Australia's first royal governor-general. | ||
| 1946 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime | ||
| 1948 5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland | ||
| 1948 Orville Wright, youngest of the American brothers and aviation pioneers who made the first flight, died. | ||
| 1948 Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian nationalist movement against British rule, was assassinated by a Hindu extremist. | ||
| 1954 Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR | ||
| 1956 Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed | ||
| 1963 Francis-Jean-Marcel Poulenc, French composer and pianist, died. Poulenc had great success with the opera "Les Biches." | ||
| 1964 Military coup of Gen Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam | ||
| 1964 A coup d'etat took place in South Vietnam, led by General Nguyen Khanh, displacing General Duong Van Minh. | ||
| 1965 The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill was held in London. | ||
| 1967 Pope Paul VI met Soviet President Podgorny, the first Soviet head of state to visit the Vatican. | ||
| 1968 Viet Cong guerrillas and North Vietnamese soldiers launched the Tet (New Year) offensive, targeting more than 100 towns and cities in South Vietnam; in Saigon they invaded the grounds of the U.S. embassy. | ||
| 1970 Lesotho's prime minister, Chief Leabua Jonathan, declared a state of emergency and suspended the constitution, claiming malpractices had been discovered in recent elections. | ||
| 1972 British soldiers shot dead 13 people in a banned Catholic civil rights march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in a clash known as "Bloody Sunday | ||
| 1972 Bloody Sunday: Brit soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die | ||
| 1972 Pakistan left the Commonwealth in protest against imminent recognition of Bangladesh by Britain, Australia and New Zealand. | ||
| 1973 In the United States, G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord were convicted of burglary, wire-tapping and attempted bugging of the Democratic headquarters at the Watergate building in Washington. | ||
| 1976 George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977) | ||
| 1976 William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA | ||
| 1979 In a referendum, white Rhodesians voted by a majority of 85 percent in favor of a new constitution aimed at black majority rule. | ||
| 1989 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor | ||
| 1989 Lebanon's warring Shi'ite groups, the Syrian-backed Amal militia and the pro-Iranian Hizbollah signed a peace accord, ending a year-long feud. | ||
| 1992 Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey announced he would resign after being accused of telephone-tapping. | ||
| 1992 Argentina opened the files on scores of Nazis who fled to South America after World War II -- a move Jewish leaders said would help the hunt for war criminals. | ||
| 1994 The United States granted Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams a visa to attend a New York conference on Northern Ireland. | ||
| 1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured | ||
| 1996 Hasan Muratovic was formally appointed prime minister of Bosnia Herzegovina's central government. | ||