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On this day - January 30
1018 — Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
1287 — King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy kingdom, and proclaims ...
1607 — An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of ...
1648 — Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is ...
1649 — Charles I of England is executed in Whitehall, London.
1661 — Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of ...
1667 — The Truce of Andrusovo is signed, ending the Russian-Polish ...
1789 — Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and ...
1806 — The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton ...
1820 — Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the ...
1826 — The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first ...
1835 — In the first assassination attempt against a President of the ...
1847 — Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California.
1858 — The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, ...
1862 — American Civil War: The first American ironclad warship, the ...
1889 — Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the ...
1902 — The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
1908 — Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is ...
1911 — The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea ...
1920 — Japanese carmaker Mazda is founded, initially as a ...
1925 — The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from ...
1930 — The Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ...
1933 — Adolf Hitler's rise to power: Hitler takes office as the ...
1939 — During a speech in the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler makes a ...
1942 — World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in ...
1944 — World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation ...
1945 — World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred and twenty-six ...
1945 — World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German ...
1948 — Following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in his home ...
1948 — British South American Airways' Tudor IV Star Tiger ...
1956 — In the United States, Civil Rights Movement leader Martin ...
1959 — MS Hans Hedtoft, specifically designed to operate in icebound ...
1959 — The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last ...
1960 — The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the ...
1964 — In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General ...
1968 — Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong ...
1969 — The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of ...
1972 — Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its ...
1972 — The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on ...
1974 — Pan Am Flight 806 crashes near Pago Pago International Airport ...
1975 — Turkish Airlines Flight 345 crashes into the Sea of Marmara ...
1975 — The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the ...
1979 — A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander ...
1982 — Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 ...
1989 — The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed.
1995 — Hydroxycarbamide becomes the first approved preventive ...
2000 — Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off ...
2006 — The Goleta postal facility shootings occur, killing seven ...
2007 — Microsoft Corporation releases Windows Vista, a major release ...
2013 — Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South ...
2020 — The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic ...