Monday, January 30, 2012

TODAY IN HISTORY

JANUARY 30

1649:King Charles I of England was beheaded.

1933:Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany.

1948:Gandhi was assassinated.

1968:North Vietnamese forces launched attacks against the South Vietnamese, beginning the Tet offensive.

1972:British troops opened fire on civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland, sparking the "Bloody Sunday" massacre.

1979:The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return.


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