Sunday, January 30th The 030th day of 2011. There are 335 days left in the year. | |
Today's Highlights in History | |||
See a larger version of this front page. | On Jan. 30, 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist. (Go to article.) | ||
On January 30, 1858, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about law and order. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) |
On this date in: | |
1649 | England's King Charles I was beheaded. |
1882 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, was born in Hyde Park, N.Y. |
1883 | James Ritty and John Birch received a U.S. patent for the first cash register. |
1933 | The first episode of the "Lone Ranger" was broadcast on radio station WXYZ in Detroit. |
1933 | Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. |
1968 | The Tet offensive began as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals. |
1969 | The Beatles performed as a group for the last time in public in a 45-minute gig on the roof of their Apple Records headquarters in London during the filming of "Let it Be." |
1972 | Thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." |
2003 | Richard Reid, a British citizen and al-Qaida follower, was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Boston for trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes. |
2005 | Iraqis voted in their country's first free election in a half-century. |
2006 | Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died at age 78. |
2007 | Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system went on sale. |
Current Birthdays | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Phil Collins turns 60 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
AP Photo/Peter Kramer Rock singer-musician Phil Collins (Genesis) turns 60 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Historic Birthdays | |
Franklin Roosevelt | |
1/30/1882 - 4/12/1945 America's 32nd President (Go to obit.) | |
59 | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham 1/30/1628 - 4/16/1687 English politician |
60 | Bernardo Bellotto 1/30/1720 - 10/17/1780 Italian "Vedute" painter |
70 | Philip Henry Stanhope 1/30/1805 - 12/24/1875 English politician/historian |
54 | Samuel Armstrong 1/30/1839 - 5/11/1893 American founder of Hampton Institute |
58 | Felix Faure 1/30/1841 - 2/16/1899 6th President of French Republic |
64 | Edward Martyn 1/30/1859 - 12/5/1923 Irish dramatist |
88 | Walter Damrosch 1/30/1862 - 12/22/1950 Prussian-bn.American conductor |
78 | Roy Eldridge 1/30/1911 - 2/26/1989 American musician |
77 | Barbara Tuchman 1/30/1912 - 2/6/1989 American author/historian |
87 | Livia Drusilla 1/30/58BC - //AD 29 Political wife of Emperor Augustus |
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