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.
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- 1649 – English Civil War: King Charles I, who was defeated in both the First and the Second Civil War, was beheaded for high treason in front of the Banqueting House in London.
- 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, connecting the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, one of the world's first modern suspension bridges, opened.
- 1930 – In Pavlovsk, USSR, meteorologist Pavel Molchanov launched one of the world's first radiosondes, a device attached to weather balloons to measure various atmospheric parameters.
- 1948 – Nathuram Godse fatally shot Mahatma Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement, at Birla House in Delhi.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: Forces of the Viet Cong and the Vietnam People's Army launched the Tết Offensive to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam.
- 1996 – Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake discovered Comet Hyakutake (pictured), which was later recognized as one of the closest cometary approaches to the Earth in the last 200 years.