About January 30
January 30, 2025 is the 30th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 335 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 383 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.
- 1703 –The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
- 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.
- 1820 –Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
- 1889 –Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
- 1911 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 1913 –The United Kingdom’s House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
- 1925 –The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
- 1933 –Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
- 1942 –World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.
- 1944 –World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
- 1945 –World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9,400 people.
- 1956 –American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- 1960 –The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
- 1964 –Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
- 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.
- 1982 –Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called “Elk Cloner”.
- 1989 –The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
- 1994 –Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
- 1996 –Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
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