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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 30 is the 30th day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
335 days remain until the end of the year (336 in leap years). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1018 Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude
the Peace of Bautzen.[1] ·
1287 King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom,
and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.[2] ·
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.[3] ·
1648 Eighty Years' War:
The Treaty of Mόnster and
Osnabrόck is signed, ending the conflict between the
Netherlands and Spain.[4] ·
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.[5] ·
1703 The Forty-seven
rōnin, under the command of Ōishi
Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka.[6] ·
1789 Tβy Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the
capital Thăng Long. ·
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. ·
1820 Edward Bransfield sights
the Trinity Peninsula and
claims the discovery of Antarctica. ·
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. ·
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. ·
1847 Yerba Buena,
California is renamed San Francisco,
California. ·
1858 The first Hallι
concert is given in Manchester, England,
marking the official founding of The Hallι orchestra as a full-time,
professional orchestra. ·
1862 The first
American ironclad warship,
the USS Monitor is
launched. ·
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. ·
1902 The first Anglo-Japanese
Alliance is signed in London. ·
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. ·
1911 The
destroyer USS Terry makes
the first airplane rescue at
sea saving the life of Douglas
McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba. ·
1925 The Government
of Turkey expels Patriarch
Constantine VI from Istanbul. ·
1930 The Politburo of the Soviet Union orders
the extermination of the Kulaks. ·
1933 Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor
of Germany. ·
1942 World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.
Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths
of remaining POWs will
not have survived by the end of the war, including 250 men who will be
shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned. ·
1944 World War II:
The Battle of Cisterna,
part of Operation Shingle,
begins in central Italy. ·
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. ·
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. ·
1948 British
South American Airways' Tudor IV
Star Tiger disappears over the Bermuda Triangle. ·
1956
African-American civil rights
movement leader Martin Luther King
Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery bus
boycott. ·
1959 The forces of
the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last strongholds of the Imamate of
Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end
of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman.[7] ·
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. ·
1960 The African National
Party is founded in Chad,
through the merger of traditionalist parties. ·
1964 In a bloodless
coup, General Nguyễn Khαnh overthrows General Dương
Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam. ·
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. ·
1969 The Beatles' last public performance, on the
roof of Apple Records in
London. The impromptu
concert is broken up by the police. ·
1972 The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British
paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another
person later dies of injuries sustained. ·
1972 Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth of
Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh. ·
1975 The Monitor
National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United
States National Marine Sanctuary. ·
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. ·
1982 Richard Skrenta writes the first
PC virus code,
which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner". ·
1989 The
American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is
closed. ·
1995 Workers from
the National
Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials
testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease. ·
2000 Kenya Airways
Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast
of Ivory Coast,
killing 169. ·
2013 Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea. Births[edit]
·
58 BC Livia, Roman wife of Augustus (d. 29)[8] ·
133 Didius Julianus, Roman emperor (probable; d.
193)[9] ·
1410 William Calthorpe,
English knight (d. 1494)[10] ·
1520 William More,
English courtier (d. 1600)[11] ·
1563 Franciscus Gomarus,
Dutch theologian and academic (d. 1641)[12] ·
1573 Georg
Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (d. 1638) ·
1580 Gundakar,
Prince of Liechtenstein, court official in Vienna (d. 1658) ·
1590 Lady Anne Clifford, 14th Baroness de Clifford (d.
1676)[13] ·
1628 George
Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)[14] ·
1661 Charles Rollin, French historian and
educator (d. 1741)[15] ·
1697 Johann Joachim
Quantz, German flute player and composer (d. 1773)[16] ·
1703 Franηois Bigot,
French politician (d. 1778) ·
1720 Charles De Geer, Swedish entomologist and
archaeologist (d. 1778) ·
1754 John Lansing, Jr.,
American lawyer and politician (d. 1829) ·
1775 Walter Savage Landor,
English poet and author (d. 1864) ·
1781 Adelbert von
Chamisso, German botanist and poet (d. 1838) ·
1816 Nathaniel P. Banks,
American general and politician, 24th Governor of
Massachusetts (d. 1894) ·
1822 Franz Ritter von
Hauer, Austrian geologist and curator (d. 1899) ·
1841 Fιlix Faure, French politician, 7th President of France (d.
1899) ·
1844 Richard Theodore
Greener, American lawyer, academic, and diplomat (d. 1922) ·
1846 Angela of the Cross,
Spanish nun and saint (d. 1932) ·
1859 Tony Mullane, Irish-American baseball player
and manager (d. 1944) ·
1861 Charles Martin
Loeffler, German-American violinist and composer (d. 1935) ·
1862 Walter Damrosch, German-American conductor
and composer (d. 1950) ·
1866 Gelett Burgess, American author, poet, and
critic (d. 1951)[17] ·
1878 Anton Hansen
Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)[18] ·
1882 Franklin D.
Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President
of the United States (d. 1945)[19] ·
1889 Jaishankar Prasad,
Indian poet and playwright (d. 1937)[20] ·
1899 Max Theiler, South African-American
virologist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1972)[21] ·
1900 Martita Hunt, Argentine-born British actress
(d. 1969) ·
1901 Rudolf Caracciola,
German race car driver (d. 1959) ·
1902 Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian
and scholar (d. 1983) ·
1910 Chidambaram
Subramaniam, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian
Minister of Defence (d. 2000) ·
1911 Roy Eldridge, American jazz trumpet player
(d. 1989) ·
1912 Werner
Hartmann, German physicist and academic (d. 1988) ·
1912 Francis Schaeffer,
American pastor and theologian (d. 1984) ·
1912 Barbara W. Tuchman,
American historian and author (d. 1989) ·
1914 Luc-Marie Bayle, French commander and
painter (d. 2000) ·
1914 John Ireland,
Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1992) ·
1914 David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)[22] ·
1915 Joachim Peiper, German SS officer
(d. 1976) ·
1915 John Profumo, English soldier and
politician, Secretary of
State for War (d. 2006) ·
1917 Paul Frθre, Belgian race car driver and
journalist (d. 2008) ·
1918 David Opatoshu, American actor and
screenwriter (d. 1996) ·
1919 Fred Korematsu, American activist (d. 2005)[23] ·
1920 Michael
Anderson, English director and producer (d. 2018) ·
1920 Patrick Heron, British painter (d. 1999)[24] ·
1920 Delbert Mann, American director and producer
(d. 2007) ·
1922 Dick Martin,
American comedian, actor, and director (d. 2008) ·
1923 Marianne Ferber, Czech-American economist
and author (d. 2013) ·
1924 S. N. Goenka, Burmese-Indian author and
educator (d. 2013) ·
1924 Lloyd Alexander, American soldier and author
(d. 2007) ·
1925 Douglas Engelbart,
American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse (d.
2013) ·
1927 Olof Palme, Swedish statesman, 26th Prime Minister
of Sweden (d. 1986)[25] ·
1928 Harold Prince, American director and
producer (d. 2019) ·
1929 Lois Hole, Canadian businesswoman and
politician, 15th Lieutenant
Governor of Alberta (d. 2005) ·
1929 Hugh Tayfield, South African cricketer (d.
1994) ·
1929 Lucille
Teasdale-Corti, Canadian-Italian physician and humanitarian (d.
1996) ·
1930 Gene Hackman, American actor and author ·
1930 Magnus Malan, South African general and
politician, South
African Minister of Defence (d. 2011) ·
1931 John Crosbie, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 34th Canadian
Minister of Justice (d. 2020) ·
1931 Shirley Hazzard, Australian-American
novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2016) ·
1932 Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and
politician (d. 2007) ·
1934 Tammy Grimes, American actress and singer
(d. 2016) ·
1935 Richard Brautigan,
American novelist, poet, and short story writer (d. 1984) ·
1935 Tubby Hayes, English saxophonist and
composer (d. 1973) ·
1936 Horst Jankowski, German pianist and composer
(d. 1998) ·
1937 Vanessa Redgrave, English actress ·
1937 Boris Spassky, Russian chess player and
theoretician ·
1938 Islam Karimov, Uzbek politician, 1st President of
Uzbekistan (d. 2016) ·
1941 Gregory Benford, American astrophysicist and
author ·
1941 Dick Cheney, American businessman and
politician, 46th Vice
President of the United States, 17th US Secretary of
Defense ·
1941 Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer ·
1942 Marty Balin, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2018) ·
1943 Davey Johnson, American baseball player and
manager ·
1944 Lynn Harrell, American cellist and academic ·
1944 Colin Rimer, English lawyer and judge ·
1945 Meir Dagan, Israeli military officer and
intelligence official, Director of Mossad (200211) (d. 2016) ·
1945 Michael Dorris, American author and scholar
(d. 1997) ·
1946 John Bird, Baron
Bird, English publisher, founded The Big Issue ·
1947 Les Barker, English poet and author ·
1947 Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 1991) ·
1948 Nick Broomfield, English director and
producer ·
1948 Miles Reid, English mathematician and
academic ·
1949 Peter Agre, American physician and
biologist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1950 Jack Newton, Australian golfer ·
1951 Phil Collins, English drummer,
singer-songwriter, producer, and actor ·
1951 Charles S. Dutton,
American actor and director ·
1951 Bobby Stokes, English footballer (d. 1995) ·
1952 Doug
Falconer, Canadian football player and producer ·
1953 Fred Hembeck, American author and
illustrator ·
1955 John Baldacci, American politician,
73rd Governor of Maine ·
1955 Tom Izzo, American basketball player and
coach ·
1955 Curtis Strange, American golfer and
sportscaster ·
1957 Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999) ·
1958 Derek White,
Scottish rugby player ·
1959 Cynthia Carter, Welsh journalist, author,
and academic ·
1959 Steve Folkes, Australian rugby league player
and coach (d. 2018) ·
1959 Jody Watley, American entertainer ·
1962 Abdullah II of
Jordan ·
1964 Otis Smith,
American basketball player, coach, and manager ·
1965 Kevin Moore,
Australian rugby league player and coach ·
1966 Danielle Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach ·
1969 Justin
Skinner, English footballer, midfielder and manager[26] ·
1971 Kimo von Oelhoffen,
American football player ·
1972 Jill McGill, American golfer ·
1972 Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1973 Jalen Rose, American basketball player and
sportscaster ·
1974 Christian Bale, Welsh actor[27] ·
1974 Olivia Colman, English actress[28] ·
1975 Juninho Pernambucano,
Brazilian footballer ·
1975 Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese musician and singer ·
1976 Andy Milonakis, American entertainer[29] ·
1977 Dan Hinote, American ice hockey player and
coach ·
1978 Carmen Kόng, Swiss curler ·
1978 John Patterson,
American baseball player ·
1979 Trevor Gillies, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1980 Joγo Soares
de Almeida Neto, Brazilian footballer ·
1980 Georgios Vakouftsis,
Greek footballer ·
1980 Wilmer Valderrama,
American actor and producer ·
1981 Jonathan Bender, American basketball player ·
1981 Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer ·
1981 Afonso Alves, Brazilian footballer ·
1981 Peter Crouch, English footballer ·
1981 Mathias Lauda, Austrian race car driver ·
1982 Jorge Cantϊ, Mexican baseball player ·
1984 Kotoshōgiku
Kazuhiro, Japanese sumo wrestler ·
1984 Arthur Chu, Asian-American columnist and former Jeopardy! contestant ·
1984 Kid Cudi, American entertainer[30] ·
1985 Gisela Dulko, Argentinian tennis player ·
1985 Torrey Mitchell, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1985 Trae Williams, American football player ·
1986 Nick Evans,
American baseball player ·
1987 Ben Cutting, Australian cricketer ·
1987 Lance Franklin, Australian footballer ·
1987 Phil Lester, English Internet celebrity ·
1987 Becky Lynch, Irish wrestler ·
1987 Renato
Santos, Brazilian footballer ·
1987 Arda Turan, Turkish footballer ·
1988 Rob Pinkston, American actor and director ·
1989 Tomαs Mejνas,
Spanish footballer ·
1989 Girish Kumar, Indian film actor ·
1990 Yoon Bo-ra, South Korean singer ·
1990 Joe Colborne, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1990 Andrew McCullough,
Australian rugby league player ·
1990 Nils Miatke, German footballer ·
1990 Luca Sbisa, Swiss ice hockey player ·
1990 Mitchell Starc, Australian cricketer[31] ·
1990 Phillip Supernaw, American football player[32] ·
1991 Stefan Elliott, Canadian ice hockey player[33] ·
1993 Katy Marchant, English track cyclist[34] ·
1995 Jack Laugher, English diver[35] ·
1995 Vνctor Sαnchez,
Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2015) Deaths[edit]
·
680 Balthild, Frankish queen (b. 626) ·
1030 William V,
Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969) ·
1181 Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161) ·
1240 Pelagio Galvani, Leonese lawyer and cardinal
(b. 1165) ·
1314 Nicholas III
of Saint Omer ·
1344 William
Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury (b. 1301) ·
1384 Louis II,
Count of Flanders (b. 1330) ·
1497 Lκ Thαnh Tτng,
King of Vietnam (b. 1442) ·
1574 Damiγo de Gσis,
Portuguese historian and philosopher (b. 1502) ·
1606 Everard Digby, English criminal (b. 1578) ·
1606 John Grant,
English conspirator (b. 1570) ·
1606 Robert Wintour, English conspirator (b.
1565) ·
1649 Charles I of England (b.
1600) ·
1664 Cornelis de Graeff,
Dutch mayor (b. 1599) ·
1730 Peter II of Russia (b.
1715) ·
1770 Giovanni
Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis, Maltese linguist, historian
and cleric (b. 1712) ·
1836 Betsy Ross, American seamstress, said to
have designed the American Flag (b.
1752) ·
1838 Osceola, American tribal leader (b. 1804) ·
1858 Coenraad Jacob
Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist (b. 1778) ·
1867 Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831) ·
1869 William Carleton, Irish author (b. 1794) ·
1881 Arthur O'Shaughnessy,
English poet and herpetologist (b. 1844) ·
1889 Rudolf,
Crown Prince of Austria, heir apparent to the throne of
Austria-Hungary (b. 1858) ·
1926 Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896) ·
1928 Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1867) ·
1929 La Goulue, French model and dancer (b. 1866) ·
1934 Frank Nelson
Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday
Publishing Company (b. 1862) ·
1947 Frederick Blackman,
English botanist and physiologist (b. 1866) ·
1948 Arthur
Coningham, Australian air marshal (b. 1895) ·
1948 Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian
independence movement against British rule (b. 1869) ·
1948 Orville Wright, American pilot and engineer,
co-founded the Wright Company (b.
1871) ·
1951 Ferdinand Porsche,
Austrian-German engineer and businessman, founded Porsche (b. 1875) ·
1958 Jean Crotti, Swiss painter (b. 1878) ·
1958 Ernst Heinkel, German engineer and
businessman; founded the Heinkel Aircraft Company (b.
1888) ·
1962 Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician and
engineer (b. 1894) ·
1963 Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer
(b. 1899) ·
1966 Jaan Hargel, Estonian flute player,
conductor, and educator (b. 1912) ·
1968 Makhanlal Chaturvedi,
Indian poet, playwright, and journalist (b. 1889) ·
1969 Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1910) ·
1973 Elizabeth
Baker, American economist and academic (b. 1885)[36] ·
1974 Olav Roots, Estonian pianist and composer
(b. 1910) ·
1977 Paul Marais de
Beauchamp, French zoologist (b. 1883) ·
1980 Professor Longhair,
American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1918) ·
1982 Lightnin' Hopkins,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912) ·
1991 John Bardeen, American physicist and
engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1908) ·
1991 Clifton C. Edom, American photographer and
educator (b. 1907) ·
1994 Pierre Boulle, French soldier and author (b.
1912) ·
1999 Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919) ·
1999 Ed Herlihy, American journalist (b. 1909) ·
2001 Jean-Pierre Aumont,
French soldier and actor (b. 1911) ·
2001 Johnnie
Johnson, English air marshal and pilot (b. 1915)[37] ·
2001 Joseph Ransohoff, American surgeon and
educator (b. 1915) ·
2005 Martyn Bennett, Canadian-Scottish violinist
(b. 1971) ·
2006 Coretta Scott King,
American author and activist (b. 1927) ·
2006 Wendy Wasserstein,
American playwright and academic (b. 1950) ·
2007 Sidney Sheldon, American author and
screenwriter (b. 1917) ·
2008 Marcial Maciel, Mexican-American priest,
founded the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi (b. 1920) ·
2009 H. Guy Hunt, American soldier, pastor, and
politician, 49th Governor of Alabama (b.
1933) ·
2010 Fadil Ferati, Kosovar accountant and
politician (b. 1960) ·
2011 John Barry,
English composer and conductor (b. 1933) ·
2012 Frank Aschenbrenner,
American football player and soldier (b. 1925) ·
2012 Doeschka Meijsing,
Dutch author (b. 1947) ·
2013 Gamal al-Banna, Egyptian author and scholar
(b. 1920) ·
2013 Patty Andrews, American singer (b. 1918) ·
2013 George Witt,
American baseball player and coach (b. 1931) ·
2014 Stefan Bałuk, Polish general and
photographer (b. 1914) ·
2014 The Mighty Hannibal,
American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1939) ·
2014 William Motzing, American composer and
conductor (b. 1937) ·
2014 Arthur Rankin, Jr.,
American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924) ·
2015 Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist,
author, and playwright (b. 1923) ·
2015 άlo Kaevats, Estonian academic, philosopher,
and politician (b. 1947) ·
2015 Geraldine McEwan, English actress (b. 1932) ·
2015 Gerrit Voorting, Dutch cyclist (b. 1923) ·
2015 Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgarian philosopher and
politician, 2nd President
of Bulgaria (b. 1935) ·
2016 Frank Finlay, English actor (b. 1926) ·
2016 Francisco Flores
Pιrez, Salvadorian politician, President of El
Salvador (b. 1959) ·
2016 Georgia Davis Powers,
American activist and politician (b. 1923) ·
2018 Mark Salling, American actor and musician[38] (b. 1982) ·
2019 Dick Miller, American actor (b. 1928)[39] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian Feast Day: o Anthony the Great (Coptic
Church) o Balthild o Charles, King
and Martyr (various provinces of the Anglican Communion) o Martina o Savina o Three Holy Hierarchs (Eastern Orthodox), and its related
observances: § Teacher's Day (Greece) o January
30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Day of
Azerbaijani customs (Azerbaijan) ·
Day of Saudade (Brazil) ·
Fred Korematsu Day (California, Florida, Hawaii, Virginia) ·
Martyrdom
of Mahatma Gandhi, and its related observances: o School
Day of Non-violence and Peace (Spain) o Start
of the Season for
Nonviolence January 30 - April 4 |
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