What Happened on Jan 30

Ippolito Aldobrandini (Clement VIII) eleceted Pope

Pope Clement VIII (24 February, 1536 –3 March, 1605), born Ippolito Aldobrandini, was Pope from 30 January, 1592 to 3 March, 1605. After the... Read more

James Madison Purchases Thomas Jefferson's Library

On January 30, 1815, President James Madison approved an act of Congress appropriating $23,950 to purchase Thomas Jefferson's library of 6,487... Read more

The First Attempt To Kill A Sitting President Of The United States Occurrs

On January 30, 1835, what is believed to be the first attempt to kill a sitting President of the United States occurred just outside the United... Read more

Virginia Clemm Poe Dies

On January 29, 1847, Poe wrote to Marie Louise Shew: "My poor Virginia still lives, although failing fast and now suffering much pain."Virginia... Read more

Franklin D Roosevelt is Born

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882 in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, New York. His father, James Roosevelt, and his... Read more

Hindenburg Appoints Hitler Chancellor of Germany

On the morning of 30 January 1933, in Hindenburg's office, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor during what some observers later described as a... Read more

Battle of Ambon

From 6 January onwards, Ambon was attacked by Japanese aircraft. Allied aircraft made some sorties against the approaching Japanese fleet, with... Read more

G-AHNP Star Tiger Disappears

G-AHNP Star Tiger was an Avro Tudor Mark IV passenger aircraft owned and operated by British South American Airways (BSAA) which disappeared... Read more

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is Assassinated by Nathuram Godse

On January 30, 1948, Madanlal Pahwa, Shankar Kistaiya, Digambar Badge, Vishnu Karkare, Gopal Godse, Nathuram Godse, and Narayan Apte came to Birla... Read more

V Olympic Winter Games Held in St. Moritz, Switzerland

The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated in 1948 in St. Moritz,... Read more

North Sea Flood of 1953

A storm formed south of Iceland on January 30th, 1953 and it was not a cause for concern at the time because the barometric pressure was not... Read more

Battle of Hue

At 03:40 on the foggy morning of 31 January, allied defensive positions north of the Perfume River in the city of Hue were mortared and rocketed... Read more

First Battle of Saigon

Although Saigon was the focal point of the offensive, the communists did not seek a total takeover of the city. Rather, they had six primary... Read more

Operation Dewey Canyon II

Any offensive planning by the U.S. was, however, limited by the passage on 29 December 1970 of the Cooper-Church Amendment, which prohibited U.S.... Read more

First Kiss performance

The first Kiss performance was on January 30, 1973, for an audience of three at the Popcorn Club (renamed Coventry shortly afterward) in Queens. In... Read more

"Lacombe, Lucien" Is Released

Lacombe Lucien (in English, Lacombe, Lucien) (1974) is a French film that tells the story of a teenage boy during the German occupation of France... Read more

George H.W. Bush Serves as the Director of Central Intelligence

In 1976, Ford brought Bush back to Washington to become Director of Central Intelligence. He served in this role for 357 days, from January 30,... Read more

Super Bowl XVII - Redskins 27, Dolphins 17

Super Bowl XVII was an American football game played on January 30, 1983 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California to decide the National Football... Read more

Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan release Dylan & the Dead

Dylan & the Dead is a collaborative live album by Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, released in 1989 by Columbia Records. It consists of seven songs... Read more

MST3K Ep. 111 - "Moon Zero Two"

On a colonized moon, a disaffected astronaut-turned-cargo hauler hooks up with woman who has come looking for her brother, a miner working a... Read more

"The Pony Remark" - Season 2 Episode 2 of Seinfeld Premiers

"The Pony Remark" is the seventh episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. It was the second episode for the show's second season. It aired on January... Read more

"The Silence Of The Lambs" Is Released

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 psychological crime/horror thriller directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott... Read more

MST3K Ep. 424 - "Manos: The Hands of Fate"

(Short: Hired!, Part 2) A hapless family on a car trip in rural Texas take refuge at an inn run on behalf of The Master by the satyr Torgo,... Read more

Super Bowl XXVIII - Cowboys 30, Bills 13

Super Bowl XXVIII was an American football game played on January 12, 1994, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, to decide the National... Read more

Ministry release Filth Pig

Filth Pig is the sixth studio album by industrial metal band Ministry, released in 1996 on Warner Bros. Records. The title was allegedly derived... Read more