Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 30
This is a list of selected January 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
| ← January 29 | January 31 → |
|---|
Images
Use only ONE image at a time
-
Mahatma Gandhi -
Mahatma Gandhi -
William Goebel -
King Charles I -
width=150 -
Audience makes Nazi salute during the Reichstag speech -
Former Cabanatuan City POWs in celebration -
Attempted assassination of Andrew Jackson
.jpg)
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1820 – Edward Bransfield of the Royal Navy landed on the mainland of Antarctica. | needs more footnotes and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen reaching Antarctica also available on SA Jan 27 |
| 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, one of the world's first modern suspension bridges, opened. | lots of CN tags (5) |
| 1858 – Founded by pianist and conductor Charles Hallé, the orchestra the Hallé held their first concert in Manchester. | recentism section |
| 1889 – Archduke Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead in a suicide pact with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling. | Rudolf: trivial pop culture; Mayerling: refimprove |
| 1900 – The day before he was to be sworn in as Governor of Kentucky, William Goebel was mortally wounded by an assailant, making him the only U.S. state governor to be assassinated while in office. | citation needed tag, and book sources lack page numbers |
| 1939 – In a speech to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler threatened "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe". | TFA for 2021 |
| 1945 – World War II: In one of the largest losses of life in a single sinking in maritime history, the Soviet submarine S-13 sank the Wilhelm Gustloff carrying German soldiers and refugees evacuating from East Prussia, killing at least 9,400 people. | unreferenced section |
| 1982 – Richard Skrenta's "Elk Cloner" became the first known computer virus found "in the wild". It infected Apple II computers via floppy disk. | refimprove section |
| Balthild |d|680| | date is probably not the date of her death; see [1] |
Eligible
- 1287 – Wareru created the Hanthawaddy Kingdom in today's Lower Burma and declared himself king following the collapse of the Pagan Empire.
- 1607 – Low-lying places around the coasts of the Bristol Channel of Britain were flooded, possibly by a tsunami, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
- 1649 – King Charles I, who was defeated in both the First and the Second English Civil Wars, was beheaded for high treason in front of the Banqueting House in London.
- 1835 – Richard Lawrence became the first person to attempt to assassinate a sitting U.S. president when he failed to kill Andrew Jackson at the U.S. Capitol and was subdued by the crowd.
- 1847 – The town of Yerba Buena in Mexican California was renamed San Francisco.
- 1945 – World War II: Allied forces liberated more than 500 prisoners of war from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan in the Philippines.
- 1948 – Nathuram Godse fatally shot Mahatma Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement, at Birla House in Delhi.
- 1959 – On the return leg of her maiden voyage, the "unsinkable" Danish ocean liner Hans Hedtoft hit an iceberg and sank with all 95 passengers and crew lost.
- 1964 – In a bloodless coup, Nguyễn Khánh overthrew Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam, less than three months after Minh executed a bloody coup himself.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: Forces of the Viet Cong and the Vietnamese People's Army launched the Tet Offensive to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam.
- 2000 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ivory Coast shortly after takeoff, killing 169 on board.
- Born/died: | Everard Digby |d|1606| Rudolf Caracciola |b|1901| Patrick Heron |b|1920| Barbara La Marr |d|1926| Johannes Fibiger |d|1928| Professor Longhair |d|1980| Arthur Chu |b|1984
January 30: Martyrs' Day in India
_%EB%B0%9C%EC%82%AC%EB%8C%80_%EA%B8%B0%EB%A6%BD_(3).jpg)
- 1018 – The German–Polish War ended with the signing of the Peace of Bautzen between Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Bolesław I, the Piast ruler of Poland.
- 1661 – Two years after his death, Oliver Cromwell's remains were exhumed for a posthumous execution and his head was placed on a spike above Westminster Hall in London, where it remained until 1685.
- 1972 – The Troubles: On Bloody Sunday, members of the British Parachute Regiment shot 26 civil-rights protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing at least thirteen people.
- 2013 – The Korea Aerospace Research Institute launched Naro-1 (pictured), South Korea's first carrier rocket and their first launch vehicle to achieve Earth orbit.
- Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis (d. 1770)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (b. 1882)
- John Bardeen (d. 1991)