Today in History : January 30
1649 : Charles I of England is beheaded at Whitehall by the executioner Richard Brandon.
1844 : Richard Theodore Greener becomes the first African American to graduate from Harvard University.
1862 : The USS Monitor is launched at Greenpoint, Long Island.
1901 : Women Prohibitionists smash 12 saloons in Kansas.
1912 : The British House of Lords opposes the House of Commons by rejecting home rule for Ireland.
1931 : The United States awards civil government to the Virgin Islands.
1933 : Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor by President Paul Hindenburg.
1936 : Governor Harold Hoffman orders a new inquiry into the Lindbergh kidnapping.
1943 : Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus surrenders himself and his staff to Red Army troops in Stalingrad.
1945 : The Allies launch a drive on the Siegfried line in Germany.
1949 : In India, 100,000 people pray at the site of Gandhi’s assassination on the first anniversary of his death.
1953 : President Dwight Eisenhower announces that he will pull the Seventh Fleet out of Formosa to permit the Nationalists to attack Communist China.
1964 : The Ranger spacecraft, equipped with six TV cameras, is launched to the moon from Cape Canaveral.
1972 : British troops shoot dead 14 Irish civilians in Derry, Ireland. The day is forever remembered in Ireland as ‘Bloody Sunday.’
1976 : The U.S. Supreme Court bans spending limits in campaigns, equating funds with freedom of speech.
1980 : The first-ever Chinese Olympic team arrives in New York for the Winter Games at Lake Placid.
Born on January 30
1882 : Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States.
1885 : John Henry Towers, American naval aviation pioneer.
1912 : Barbara Tuchman, U.S. historian (The Guns of August).
1649 : Charles I of England is beheaded at Whitehall by the executioner Richard Brandon.
1844 : Richard Theodore Greener becomes the first African American to graduate from Harvard University.
1862 : The USS Monitor is launched at Greenpoint, Long Island.
1901 : Women Prohibitionists smash 12 saloons in Kansas.
1912 : The British House of Lords opposes the House of Commons by rejecting home rule for Ireland.
1931 : The United States awards civil government to the Virgin Islands.
1933 : Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor by President Paul Hindenburg.
1936 : Governor Harold Hoffman orders a new inquiry into the Lindbergh kidnapping.
1943 : Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus surrenders himself and his staff to Red Army troops in Stalingrad.
1945 : The Allies launch a drive on the Siegfried line in Germany.
1949 : In India, 100,000 people pray at the site of Gandhi’s assassination on the first anniversary of his death.
1953 : President Dwight Eisenhower announces that he will pull the Seventh Fleet out of Formosa to permit the Nationalists to attack Communist China.
1964 : The Ranger spacecraft, equipped with six TV cameras, is launched to the moon from Cape Canaveral.
1972 : British troops shoot dead 14 Irish civilians in Derry, Ireland. The day is forever remembered in Ireland as ‘Bloody Sunday.’
1976 : The U.S. Supreme Court bans spending limits in campaigns, equating funds with freedom of speech.
1980 : The first-ever Chinese Olympic team arrives in New York for the Winter Games at Lake Placid.
Born on January 30
1882 : Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States.
1885 : John Henry Towers, American naval aviation pioneer.
1912 : Barbara Tuchman, U.S. historian (The Guns of August).
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