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30 Jan 1018
The Holy Roman Empire and Poland conclude the Peace of Bautzen
30 Jan 1349
Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king
30 Jan 1467
Battle at Velke Kostolany Hung king Mtys Corvinus beats Bratrici
30 Jan 1522
Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland
30 Jan 1544
Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland
30 Jan 1592
Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
30 Jan 1607
Massive flooding in England destroys around 200 square miles of coastline and results in approximately 2000 casualties
30 Jan 1648
Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Munster ending the Thirty Years War
30 Jan 1667
TreatyTruce of Andrusovo signed between Tsardom of Russia & Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
30 Jan 1713
England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
30 Jan 1790
Lifeboat 1st tested at sea by Mr Greathead the inventor
30 Jan 1797
US Congress refuses to accept 1st petition from African American
30 Jan 1798
Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives after an argument
30 Jan 1800
US population 5308483 African American population 1002037 (18.9%)
30 Jan 1804
Scottish explorer Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River
30 Jan 1806
The original Lower Trenton Toll Bridge which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville Pennsylvania and Trenton New Jersey is opened. A later bridge opened in 1935 is also known as the Trenton Makes - the World Takes Bridge.
30 Jan 1820
British explorer Edward Bransfield aboard Williams sights Trinity Peninsula Antarctica claiming it for Britain
30 Jan 1826
The Menai Suspension Bridge considered the worlds first modern suspension bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened.
30 Jan 1841
A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagez Puerto Rico.
30 Jan 1854
1st election in Washington Territory 1682 votes cast
30 Jan 1858
Charles Halle founds Halle Orchestra in Manchester England
30 Jan 1858
William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama Leap to Freedom
30 Jan 1862
USS Monitor the US Navys 1st ironclad warship launched
30 Jan 1883
England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test
30 Jan 1888
Harry Moses 297 not out for NSW against Victoria
30 Jan 1889
John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48 (120cm) telescope
30 Jan 1889
Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76)
30 Jan 1889
Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
30 Jan 1892
Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132 for England in SCG Test
30 Jan 1892
Capt Lugard occupies Ugandas King Mwangas hide out
30 Jan 1894
Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
30 Jan 1894
US flag fired on in Rio prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
30 Jan 1895
C J Eady (Tas) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (v Vic)
30 Jan 1895
SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea 332 killed
30 Jan 1895
Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years
30 Jan 1902
Britain and Japan sign a treaty after months of negotiating which commits each country to supporting an independent China and Korea although it acknowledges Japans special interest in Korea
30 Jan 1911
1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship near Havana Cuba
30 Jan 1911
The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy
30 Jan 1913
UK House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill
30 Jan 1915
No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut Vic v Tas
30 Jan 1919
Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson is still in France with US Army
30 Jan 1921
French rapist-murderer Henri-Desire Landru sentenced to death
30 Jan 1922
Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over NSW
30 Jan 1924
Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Vic win over NSW
30 Jan 1924
Gillis Grafstrm of Sweden wins mens figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics first to successfully defend his Summer Olympic title (1920) at the Winter Games
30 Jan 1924
Great Britain clinch inaugural Olympic curling gold medal with a 46-4 win over France at the Chamonix Games
30 Jan 1925
Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople
30 Jan 1928
1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US
30 Jan 1928
Eugene ONeills Strange Interlude premieres in NYC
30 Jan 1928
Australian Championships Womens Tennis Sydney Daphne Akhurst wins 3rd title beats Esna Boyd 7-5 6-2
30 Jan 1928
Australian Championships Mens Tennis Frenchman Jean Borotra wins his only Australian title beats Jack Cummings of Australia 6-4 6-1 4-6 5-7 6-3
30 Jan 1930
Vladimir Mayakovskys Banya premieres in Leningrad
30 Jan 1930
The worlds first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk USSR.
30 Jan 1932
Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval
30 Jan 1933
Lone Ranger begins a 21-year run on ABC radio
30 Jan 1933
Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn 13-135 for match
30 Jan 1933
Australian Championships Womens Tennis Melbourne Joan Hartigan Bathurst beats Coral McInnes Buttsworth 6-4 6-3
30 Jan 1933
Australian Championships Mens Tennis Jack Crawford wins his 3rd straight Australian title beats Keith Gledhill of the US 2-6 7-5 6-3 6-2
30 Jan 1934
1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government NYC
30 Jan 1934
Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 yrs 298 days
30 Jan 1936
New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname
30 Jan 1937
Australian Championships Womens Tennis Nancye Wynne Bolton wins her first of 6 Australian singles titles beats Emily Hood Westacott 6-3 5-7 6-4
30 Jan 1937
Australian Championships Mens Tennis Vivian McGrath wins his only Grand Slam singles event beats fellow Australian John Bromwich 6-3 1-6 6-0 2-6 6-1
30 Jan 1939
Adolf Hitler threatens Jews during his speech to the German Reichstag (Parliament)
30 Jan 1940
Benjamin Brittens Lesson Illuminations premieres in London
30 Jan 1940
Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race
30 Jan 1940
Hassetts second 122 of the game for Vic cant stop a NSW win
30 Jan 1943
German under officers shot down in Haarlem Neth
30 Jan 1943
Adolf Hitler promotes Friedrich Paulus commander of the 6th Army to Field Marshal in the hope that he will not surrender
30 Jan 1943
Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing
30 Jan 1944
World War II United States troops land on Majuro Marshall Islands
30 Jan 1944
The Battle of Cisterna begins in central Italy
30 Jan 1945
Wilhelm Gustloff torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 9400 die
30 Jan 1945
American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied POWs from Japanese at Cabanatuan
30 Jan 1948
V Winter Olympic Games open in St Moritz Switzerland
30 Jan 1950
Robert Montgomery Presents dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV
30 Jan 1950
Australian Championships Womens Tennis In an all-American final Louise Brough beats Doris Hart 6-4 3-6 6-4 for her only Australian singles title
30 Jan 1950
Australian Championships Mens Tennis Frank Sedgman retains title beats fellow Australian Ken McGregor 6-3 6-4 4-6 6-1
30 Jan 1951
Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
30 Jan 1952
Lehmer verifies 2521-1 & 2607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime
30 Jan 1956
KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
30 Jan 1956
KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
30 Jan 1956
Australian Championships Womens Tennis Mary Carter Reitano beats fellow Australian Thelma Coyne Long 3-6 6-2 9-7 for her 1st Australian singles title
30 Jan 1958
1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service Dallas Tx
30 Jan 1958
Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars
30 Jan 1958
Dore Scharys Sunrise at Campobello premieres in NYC
30 Jan 1958
UK House of Lords passes bill allowing women to take seats
30 Jan 1959
Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test v England Adelaide Oval
30 Jan 1959
Paul Hindemiths symphony Pittsburgh premieres
30 Jan 1960
CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
30 Jan 1960
Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI v England
30 Jan 1960
US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
30 Jan 1960
US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
30 Jan 1961
Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC
30 Jan 1961
KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
30 Jan 1961
Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay Grout Misson) at Adelaide
30 Jan 1962
UN General Assembly censures Portugal over Angola
30 Jan 1962
2 members of Flying Wallendas high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit
30 Jan 1962
Laughter epidemic begins at a girls mission school in Kashasha Tanganyika goes on to affect 14 schools and over 1000 people
30 Jan 1964
Military coup of Gen Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam
30 Jan 1964
Ranger 6 launched makes perfect flight to Moon but cameras fail
30 Jan 1966
-19F (-28C) Corinth Mississippi (state record)
30 Jan 1966
-27F (-33C) New Market Alabama (state record)
30 Jan 1967
Australian Championships Womens Tennis American Nancy Richey wins her first and only Australian title beats home favourite Lesley Turner Bowrey 6-1 6-4
30 Jan 1967
Australian Championships Mens Tennis Roy Emerson repeats previous years result beats American Arthur Ashe 6-4 6-1 6-4 for his 5th straight Australian title
30 Jan 1968
Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit Honey
30 Jan 1968
Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese launch the Tet offensive against South Vietnames and US forces
30 Jan 1968
NFL Draft Ron Yary from USC first pick by Minnesota Vikings
30 Jan 1969
The Beatles perform their last live gig a 42 minute concert on the roof of Apple Corps HQ in London
30 Jan 1971
Ari closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 19 performances
30 Jan 1971
Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl v England
30 Jan 1972
Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations
30 Jan 1972
Bloody Sunday 27 unarmed civilians are shot (14 are killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry Northern Ireland this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during the Troubles
30 Jan 1973
26th NHL All-Star Game Madison Square Garden NYC Eastern Division beats Western Division 5-4 MVP Greg Polis Pittsburgh Penguins LW
30 Jan 1973
Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts
30 Jan 1973
Rock band Kiss plays their 1st show at the Coventry Club in Queens NY
30 Jan 1973
NFL Draft John Matuszak from University of Tampa first pick by Houston Oilers
30 Jan 1976
1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore in Johannesburg
30 Jan 1976
George H. W. Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
30 Jan 1976
William E Colby ends term as 10th director of CIA
30 Jan 1977
8th (final) part of Roots is most-watched US entertainment show ever (100 million)
30 Jan 1977
Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW v Qld)
30 Jan 1977
Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame
30 Jan 1978
Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
30 Jan 1979
Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) agrees to new constitution
30 Jan 1979
Varig 707-323C freighter flown by the same commander as Flight 820 disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
30 Jan 1982
Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called Elk Cloner.
30 Jan 1982
WBC super welterweight champion Wilfred Benitez of Puerto Rico defeats boxing legend Roberto Durn of Panama in a 15-round unanimous decision at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas
30 Jan 1983
Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ
30 Jan 1983
Super Bowl XVII Rose Bowl Pasadena CA Washington Redskins beat Miami Dolphins 27-17 MVP John Riggins Washington RB
30 Jan 1988
Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS v N Tvl)
30 Jan 1989
Five Pharaoh sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
30 Jan 1989
Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
30 Jan 1989
Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore
30 Jan 1989
Olympian Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident
30 Jan 1989
The American embassy in Kabul Afghanistan closes.
30 Jan 1991
Iraqi troops gain control of Al Khafji inside the Saudi Arabian border
30 Jan 1993
100000 Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism
30 Jan 1858
Charles Hall founds Halle Orchestra in Manchester England
30 Jan 1924
Norways Thorleif Haug claims first of 3 gold medals at the Chamonix Winter Olympics wins 50k cross country in a Norwegian sweep of the medals also 18k and Nordic combined champion
30 Jan 1956
Hallgeir Brenden of Norway wins Olympic 15k cross country gold medal at the Cortina dAmpezzo Winter Games his 2nd career Olympic title after taking out the 18k event in Oslo (1952)
30 Jan 1956
Soviet 500m speed skating champion Yevgeni Grishin wins 2nd gold medal of the Cortina dAmpezzo Winter Olympics when he dead heats team mate Yuri Mikhatlov in the 1500m in world record 208.6
30 Jan 1956
Soviet 500m speed skating champion Yevgeni Grishin wins 2nd gold medal of the Cortina dAmpezzo Winter Olympics when he dead heats teammate Yuri Mikhatlov in the 1500m in world record 208.6
30 Jan 1930
Vladimir Mayakovskys drama Banya - (The Bathhouse) premieres in Leningrad
30 Jan 1930
Russia launches their 1st radiosonde - a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere to measure various parameters and transmit them by radio to a ground receiver- from Pavlovsk USSR.
30 Jan 1934
Former Australian cricket spin bowler Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days as Victoria draws with NSW at the Sydney Cricket Ground
30 Jan 1934
Adolf Hitlers proclamation on German unified states
30 Jan 1936
New owners of baseballs Boston Braves survey newspaper journalists to pick a new team nickname known as Bees in 1940 but return to Braves in 1941
30 Jan 1958
MLB Commissioner Ford Frick announces that players and coaches rather than fans will vote on selections for the All-Star Game vote returns to the fans in 1970
30 Jan 1961
Outstanding West Indian spin bowler Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Ken Mackay Wally Grout Frank Misson) in drawn 4th Test v Australia in Adelaide
30 Jan 1973
Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts of conspiracy burglary and illegal wiretapping
30 Jan 1989
Olympian Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident
30 Jan 1467
Battle at Velke Kostolany Hungarian king Mtys Corvinus beats Bratrici
30 Jan 1907
Korean National Debt Redemption Movement started by Seo Sang-dong of Daegu attempt by the Korean public to repay debt to Japan to avoid further colonization [1]
30 Jan 1958
1st 2-way moving sidewalk goes into service in Dallas Texas
30 Jan 1959
Danish ocean liner MS Hans Hedtoft sinks on maiden voyage after striking an iceberg off the coast of Greenland 95 die
30 Jan 1969
The Beatles perform their last live gig a 42 minute concert on the roof of Apple Corps HQ in London England
30 Jan 1971
Walt Smith and Leon Uris musical Ari based on Uris novel Exodus closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 19 performances
30 Jan 1932
Clarrie Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval
30 Jan 1933
Clarrie Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn 13-135 for match
30 Jan 1942
Japanese troops land on the island Ambon part of the Dutch East Indies (Allied forces surrender 3rd Feb)
30 Jan 1945
German passenger ship Wilhelm Gustloff torpedoed off Danzig by a Soviet submarine - killing about 9000 people the worlds greatest maritime disaster
30 Jan 1956
Australian Championships Mens Tennis Lew Hoad beats fellow Australian Ken Rosewall 6-4 3-6 6-4 7-5 for his first Grand Slam title
30 Jan 1980
Edward Albees Lady from Dubuque premieres in NYC
30 Jan 1989
American Olympic diving silver medallist Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident serves 4 years
30 Jan 1349
Black Death Massacre Jews (except pregnant women and children) are burnt to death on suspicion of poisoning the community during the Bubonic Plague in Freiburg im Breisgau Strasbourg part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe
30 Jan 1826
The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the northwest coast of Wales opens considered the worlds first modern suspension bridge
30 Jan 1903
The Imperial Library first opens to the public in Calcutta - now the National Library of India the countrys largest library [1]
30 Jan 1943
Members of the Dutch Protestant resistance against the German occupation begin publishing underground newspaper Trouw (Loyal) in the Netherlands
30 Jan 1943
WWII 6 British Mosquito planes bomb Berlin Germany in daylight
30 Jan 1943
WWII Battle of Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands - Japanese aerial torpedoes sink USS Chicago a US Navy cruiser
30 Jan 1943
WWII German under officers shot down in Haarlem Netherlands
30 Jan 1952
American mathematician D.H. Lehmer and computer programmer R. M. Robinson verify 2521-1 and 2607-1 as Mersenne-prime numbers using U.S. National Bureau of Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) at the Institute for Numerical Analysis at the University of California Los Angeles
30 Jan 1952
Paul Crestons 4th Symphony premieres by the National Symphony Orchestra
30 Jan 1976
William E Colby ends term as 10th director of US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) George H. W. Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
30 Jan 1977
Edward W. Stack replaces Paul Kerr ad president of baseballs Hall of Fame
30 Jan 1980
Edward Albees play Lady from Dubuque premieres in NYC
30 Jan 1994
Pter Lk becomes the youngest chess grand master.
30 Jan 1995
Belgiums TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air
30 Jan 1995
Car bomb explodes in Algiers killing 42 and wounding 296
30 Jan 1995
Jazz guitarist Kevin Eubanks officially becomes bandleader of The Tonight Show
30 Jan 1995
Norways Statoil announces a newly formed consortium that will supply Norwegian natural gas to the European continent
30 Jan 1995
Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
30 Jan 1996
Commander of the U.S. Fifth Fleet Scott Redd states that Iran test-fired a new anti-ship missile near the Strait of Hormuz
30 Jan 1996
Future Basketball Hall of Famer Magic Johnson comes out of a 5 year retirement helps LA Lakers to 128-118 win over Golden State at the Great Western Forum with 19 points 8 rebounds & 10 assists
30 Jan 1996
Gino Gallagher the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
30 Jan 1998
All-Star Fla Marlin catcher Darren Daulton retires
30 Jan 1998
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis Indiana on WNAP 93.1 FM
30 Jan 2000
Off the coast of Ivory Coast Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean killing 169.
30 Jan 2000
Super Bowl XXXIV Georgia Dome Atlanta GA St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans 23-16 MVP Kurt Warner St. Louis QB
30 Jan 1790
Lifeboat first tested at sea by Mr. Greathead the inventor
30 Jan 1933
1st radio broadcast of The Lone Ranger on WXYZ in Detroit Michigan
30 Jan 1969
The Beatles perform their last live gig a 42-minute concert on the roof of Apple Corps HQ in London England
30 Jan 1972
Bloody Sunday 27 unarmed civilians are shot (14 are killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry Northern Ireland the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during The Troubles
30 Jan 1973
Rock band KISS plays its first show at the Coventry Club in Queens NY
30 Jan 1977
Edward W. Stack replaces Paul Kerr as president of baseballs Hall of Fame
30 Jan 1977
The 8th and final part of Roots is the most-watched US entertainment show ever with 100 million viewers