30 January In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, January 30 is the day number 30 in a given year. January 30 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1018	The German–Polish War ended with the signing of the Peace of Bautzen between Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor and the First ruler of Poland Boleslaw II.
1530	Rana Sangram Singh of Mewar died.
1649	English Civil War-King Charles I, who was defeated in both the First and the Second Civil Wars, was beheaded for high treason infront of the Banqueting House in London.
1649	Emperor of England 'Charles I' was beheaded.
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.
1713	England and the Netherlands signed the Second Anti French Border Treaty.
1737	Italian physicist and mathematician Luichi Galvani, who discovered lightning in the bodies of living beings, was born in Bolonia city.
1774	Captain James Cook reached 71 ° 10 'South, 1820 km from the South Pole.
1826	The Menai Suspension Bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, one of the world's first modern suspension bridge, opened.
1835	Richard Lawrence became the first person to make an assassination attempt on a sitting US president when he failed to kill Andrew Jackson and was subdued by the crowd.
1847	The town of Yerba Buena in Mexican California was renamed San Francisco.
1858	The Hallé, the United Kingdom's oldest extant symphony orchestra, and the fourth oldest in the world, held their first concert in Manchester.
1862	The first iron-clad warship of the US Navy was launched.
1889	Archduke Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead in a suicide pact with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
1889	Famous Hindi litterateur Jaishankar Prasad was born.
1903	Lord Curzon inaugurated the 'Imperial Library' at Metcalf Hall, Kolkata (then Kolkata).
1911	The Canadian Naval Service was renamed the 'Royal Canadian Navy'.
1922	World Law Day was celebrated for the first time.
1930	Soviet meteorologist Pavel Molchanov launched one of the world's first radiosondes, a device attached to weather balloons to measure various atmospheric parameters.
1945	World War II-Allied forces liberated over 500 prisoners of war from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
1949	Night air mail service started.
1959	On the return leg of her maiden voyage, the 'unsinkable' Danish ocean liner Hans Hedtoft struck an iceberg and sank with all hands lost.
1964	In a bloodless coup, General Nguyen Khanh overthrew GeneralDuong Van Minh's military junta in South Vietnam, less than three monthsafter Minh executed a bloody coup himself.
1965	The people of Britain bid farewell to Winston Churchill.
1968	Vietnam War-Forces of the Viet Cong and the Vietnam People's Army launched the Tet Offensive to strike military and civilian commandand control centers throughout South Vietnam.
1968	The great Hindi journalist and litterateur Makhan Lal Chaturvedi died.
1972	On Bloody Sunday, members of the British Parachute Regiment Shot at twenty-six civil rights protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland,killing at least thirteen people.
1982	Richard Skrenta 'Elk Cloner' became the first known computer virus found 'in the wild'. It infected Apple II computer via floppy disk.
1989	The US closed its embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.
1998	The famous all star Florida Marlins catcher Daulton retired from his post in the year 1998. It was sad news for lovers or fans.
1998	The premiers of Paul Simon's “The Capeman” released in the theatres.
2000	170 died in Kenya Airways flight 431 crash near Cote d'Iviore and the cause of the crash was mechanical problems in the flight.
2000	Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Côte d'Ivoire shortly after takeoff, killing 169 on board.
2003	Belgium legally approved gay marriage, becoming the second country in the world to agree to do so.
2005	After a long gap of several years the parliamentary elections of Iraq took place in 2005 after 1958.
2007	Microsoft released its new operating system Windows Vista in 2007.
2008	Abdul Karim Telgi, the main accused in the famous stamp paper scam case, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
2011	Over half a million people participated in the world's largest wildlife survey after extreme cold drives exotic birds into Britain's back garden.
2012	Occupy DC activists are prohibited from camping in freedom plaza and McPherson square.
2012	A fake medicine crisis at cardiology hospital in Lahore leads to loss of around 112 liver.
2013	The manufacturer of wireless devices released Blackberry 10.
2013	South Korea launched its first carrier rocket Narrow-1.
2014	The explorer of seas Royal Caribbean cruise liner returned to port after 700 of its 3050 passengers became ill with gas gastroenteritis, the liner was suspected to be the Novo virus, a variant strain of the species Norwalk virus.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1913	Famous Indian painter Amrita She Ragil was born.
1948	Nathuram Godse fatally shot Mahatma Gandhi, thepolitical and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement, at Birla House in Delhi.
1948	Mahatma Gandhi, who made his significant contribution to the freedom struggle of India, was assassinated by Nathu Ram Godse.

Day/Observance	Level
World Leprosy Day	International Day
Sarvodaya Day	International Day
Drug Free Resolution And Pledge Day	National Day
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Day	National Day
Mourning Day	National Day
Sarvodaya Day	National Day
3Rd World Neglected Tropical Disease Day	International Day
Martyrs Day / Shaheed Diwas	National Day

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1889	Jaishankar Prasad / Poet / India
1890	Jai Shankar Prasad / Writer / India
1910	Chidambaram Subramaniam / Politician / India
1913	Amrita Shergill / Painter / India
1924	S. N. Goenka / Author / India
1980	Gurdeep Kohli / Actress / India
1987	Puja Gupta / Actress / India

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