Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 30

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  Mahatma Gandhi
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  King Charles I, Template:Circa
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  Audience makes Nazi salute during the Reichstag speech
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  Attempted assassination of Andrew Jackson
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  Drawing of Oliver Cromwell's head on a spike
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  Former Cabanatuan POWs in celebration
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  Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)

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1820 – Edward Bransfield of the Royal Navy landed on the mainland of Antarctica.	needs more footnotes and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen reaching Antarctica also available on SA Jan 27
1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, one of the world's first modern suspension bridges, opened.	lots of CN tags (5)
1847 – The town of Yerba Buena in Mexican California was renamed San Francisco (depicted).	lots of CN tags and a refimprove section
1858 – Founded by pianist and conductor Charles Hallé, the orchestra the Hallé held their first concert in Manchester.	recentism section
1889 – Archduke Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead in a suicide pact with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.	Rudolf: trivial pop culture; Mayerling: refimprove
1900 – The day before he was to be sworn in as Governor of Kentucky, William Goebel was mortally wounded by an assailant, making him the only U.S. state governor to be assassinated while in office.	citation needed tag, and book sources lack page numbers
1945 – World War II: In one of the largest losses of life in a single sinking in maritime history, the Soviet submarine S-13 sank the Wilhelm Gustloff carrying German soldiers and refugees evacuating from East Prussia, killing at least 9,400 people.	unreferenced section
1982 – Richard Skrenta's "Elk Cloner" became the first known computer virus found "in the wild". It infected Template:Nowrap computers via floppy disk.	refimprove section
Balthild |d|680	date is probably not the date of her death; see [1]

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• 1287 – Wareru created the Hanthawaddy Kingdom in today's Lower Burma and declared himself king following the collapse of the Pagan Empire.
• 1661 – Two years after his death, Oliver Cromwell's remains were exhumed for a posthumous execution and his head was placed on a spike above Westminster Hall in London, where it remained until 1685.
• 1649 – King Charles I, who was defeated in both the First and the Second English Civil Wars, was beheaded for high treason in front of the Banqueting House in London.
• 1835 – Richard Lawrence became the first person to attempt to assassinate a sitting US president when he failed to kill Andrew Jackson at the US Capitol (assassination attempt pictured) and was subdued by the crowd.
• 1939 – In a speech to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler threatened the "annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe".
• 1948 – Nathuram Godse fatally shot Mahatma Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement, at Birla House in Delhi.
• 1945 – [[World War II|World Template:Nowrap]]: Allied forces liberated more than 500 prisoners of war (pictured) from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan in the Philippines.
• 1959 – Danish ocean liner MS Hans Hedtoft sank, resulting in the deaths of all 95 passengers and crew.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: Forces of the Viet Cong and the Vietnamese People's Army launched the Tet Offensive to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam.
• 1972 – The Troubles: On Bloody Sunday, members of the British Parachute Regiment shot 26 civil-rights protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing at least 13 people.
• 1979 – Varig Flight 967 disappeared shortly after takeoff from Tokyo's Narita International Airport en route to Rio de Janeiro.
• 2000 – [[Kenya Airways Flight 431|Kenya Airways Template:Nowrap]] crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ivory Coast shortly after takeoff, killing 169 on board.
• 2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in downtown Chicago opened for business, eleven months before construction would finish.
• 2013 – The Korea Aerospace Research Institute launched [[Naro-1|Template:Nowrap]], South Korea's first carrier rocket and their first launch vehicle to achieve Earth orbit.
• 2020 – The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic to be a public health emergency of international concern.
• Born/died: | Livia |b|59 BC| William More |b|1520| Everard Digby |d|1606| Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis |d|1770| Karl Schädler |b|1804| John Thomas North |b|1842| Angela of the Cross |b|1846| Rudolf Caracciola |b|1901| Patrick Heron |b|1920| Johannes Fibiger |d|1928| Abdullah II of Jordan |b|1962| Christian Bale |b|1974| John Bardeen |d|1991| Russell D. Hemenway |d|2014

January 30: Martyrs' Day in India (1948); Fred Korematsu Day in parts of the United States Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1018 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Bolesław I, the Piast ruler of Poland, signed the Peace of Bautzen to end the German–Polish War.
• 1607 – Low-lying areas flooded around the coasts of the Bristol Channel in southwest England and south Wales, resulting in around 2,000 deaths.
• 1862 – The United States Navy launched USS Monitor (pictured), the first American ironclad warship.
• 1964 – In a bloodless coup, Nguyễn Khánh overthrew Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam, less than three months after Minh's own coup.
• 2005 – Forty-six years to the day after the sinking of the Danish ocean liner MS Hans Hedtoft, Queen Margrethe II unveiled a memorial in Copenhagen to the 95 passengers and crew who perished.