About January 30
January 30, 2024 is the 30th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 336 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 11 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 30
- 1048 –Protestantism: The villagers around today’s Baden-Baden elect their own priest in defiance of the local bishop.
- 1649 –King Charles I of England is beheaded.
- 1806 –The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
- 1835 –In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
- 1858 –The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
- 1902 –The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
- 1925 –The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
- 1942 –World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.
- 1945 –World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
- 1948 –Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
- 1956 –American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 1964 –In a bloodless coup, General Nguyen Khanh overthrows General Duong Van Minh’s military junta in South Vietnam.
- 1964 –Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
- 1968 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- 1969 –The Beatles’ last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
- 1971 –Carole King’s Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.
- 1975 –The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
- 1979 –A Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
- 1994 –Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
- 1995 –Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
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