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
- 1667 –The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
- 1820 –Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
- 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.
- 1847 –Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
- 1858 –The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
- 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.
- 1911 –The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
- 1943 –World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
- 1945 –World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
- 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.
- 1960 –The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
- 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.
- 1972 –Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
- 1972 –Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1975 –The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
- 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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