Today in History : January 30
1606 : Guy Fawkes is hanged, drawn and quartered for his part in the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up Parliament.
1620 : Virginia colony leaders write to the Virginia Company in England, asking for more orphaned apprentices for employment.
1788 : The Young Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart dies.
1835 : A man with two pistols misfires at President Andrew Jackson at the White House.
1865 : House of Representatives approves a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.
1911 : The German Reichstag exempts royal families from tax obligations.
1915 : Germans use poison gas on the Russians at Bolimov.
1915 : German U-boats sink two British steamers in the English Channel.
1916 : President Woodrow Wilson refuses the compromise on Lusitania reparations.
1917 : Germany resumes unlimited sub warfare, warning that all neutral ships that are in the war zone will be attacked.
1935 : The Soviet premier tells Japan to get out of Manchuria.
1943 : The Battle of Stalingrad ends as small groups of German soldiers of the Sixth Army surrender to the victorious Red Army forces.
1944 : U.S. troops under Vice Adm. Spruance land on Kwajalien atoll in the Marshall Islands.
1950 : Paris protests the Soviet recognition of Ho Chi Minh‘s Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1966 : U.S. planes resume bombing of North Vietnam after a 37-day pause.
1968 : In Vietnam, the Tet Offensive begins as Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers attack strategic and civilian locations throughout South Vietnam.
1976 : Ernesto Miranda, famous from the Supreme Court ruling on Miranda vs. Arizona is stabbed to death.
1981 : Lech Walesa announces an accord in Poland, giving Saturdays off to laborers.
Born on January 31
1734 : Robert Morris, signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
1797 : Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (C Major Symphony, The Unfinished Symphony).
1919 : Jackie Robinson, first African-American baseball player in the modern major leagues.
1925 : Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader.
1606 : Guy Fawkes is hanged, drawn and quartered for his part in the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to blow up Parliament.
1620 : Virginia colony leaders write to the Virginia Company in England, asking for more orphaned apprentices for employment.
1788 : The Young Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart dies.
1835 : A man with two pistols misfires at President Andrew Jackson at the White House.
1865 : House of Representatives approves a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.
1911 : The German Reichstag exempts royal families from tax obligations.
1915 : Germans use poison gas on the Russians at Bolimov.
1915 : German U-boats sink two British steamers in the English Channel.
1916 : President Woodrow Wilson refuses the compromise on Lusitania reparations.
1917 : Germany resumes unlimited sub warfare, warning that all neutral ships that are in the war zone will be attacked.
1935 : The Soviet premier tells Japan to get out of Manchuria.
1943 : The Battle of Stalingrad ends as small groups of German soldiers of the Sixth Army surrender to the victorious Red Army forces.
1944 : U.S. troops under Vice Adm. Spruance land on Kwajalien atoll in the Marshall Islands.
1950 : Paris protests the Soviet recognition of Ho Chi Minh‘s Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1966 : U.S. planes resume bombing of North Vietnam after a 37-day pause.
1968 : In Vietnam, the Tet Offensive begins as Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers attack strategic and civilian locations throughout South Vietnam.
1976 : Ernesto Miranda, famous from the Supreme Court ruling on Miranda vs. Arizona is stabbed to death.
1981 : Lech Walesa announces an accord in Poland, giving Saturdays off to laborers.
Born on January 31
1734 : Robert Morris, signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
1797 : Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (C Major Symphony, The Unfinished Symphony).
1919 : Jackie Robinson, first African-American baseball player in the modern major leagues.
1925 : Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader.
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