About January 30
January 30, 2023 is the 30th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 335 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 376 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 30
- 1667 –The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
- 1703 –The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
- 1790 –The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
- 1820 –Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
- 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.
- 1933 –Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1972 –Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
- 1972 –Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 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”.
- 1994 –Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
- 2000 –Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
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