Other Notable Events for January 30
Published in History & Quotes
On this date in history:
In 1649, English King Charles I was beheaded by order of Parliament.
In 1798, the first fight to break out on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives began when one congressman spat in another's face.
In 1835, a gunman fired twice on Andrew Jackson, the first attempt on the life of a U.S. president. Jackson wasn't injured.
In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
In 1943, the British air force bombed Berlin in a daylight raid timed to coincide with a speech by Joseph Goebbels marking Adolf Hitler's 10th year in power.
In 1948, Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu extremist.
In 1969, the Beatles staged an impromptu concert on the roof of Apple Records in London. The event, which became part of the documentary film Let It Be, was the last public appearance by the band.
In 1972, in what became known as Bloody Sunday, 13 Roman Catholics were killed by British troops during a banned civil rights march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
In 1979, the Iranian government announced it would let Shiite Muslim leader Ayatollah Khomeini return from exile. Washington responded by ordering the evacuation of all U.S. dependents from Iran.
In 1993, parents donated portions of their own lungs to their daughter with cystic fibrosis in pioneering transplant surgery in Los Angeles.
In 2003, a U.S. judge sentenced Richard Reid to life in prison for trying to set off plastic explosives in his shoes on a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001.
In 2009, U.S. stock exchanges reported their weakest January in more than a century, with the Dow Jones industrial average showing a one-month decline of 8.8 percent, closing at 8,000.86.
In 2011, international aid groups said red tape and corruption in Haiti were withholding a massive array of supplies a year after a catastrophic earthquake struck the country.
In 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama's favorability rating was 60 percent in a Washington Post-ABC News poll as he began his second term.
In 2014, U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said he would not seek re-election in November, ending 40 years in Congress
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