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
- 1661 –Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
- 1667 –The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
- 1790 –The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
- 1826 –The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world’s first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
- 1841 –A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
- 1847 –Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
- 1911 –The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
- 1925 –The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
- 1930 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 1944 –World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
- 1948 –Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
- 1964 –Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
- 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.
- 1972 –Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 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.
- 1982 –Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called “Elk Cloner”.
- 1995 –Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
- 2000 –Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
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