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. |
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