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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- 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.
- 1847 – The town of Yerba Buena in Mexican California was renamed San Francisco.
- 1900 – The day before he was sworn in as Governor of Kentucky, William Goebel (pictured) was shot by an unknown assailant and mortally wounded. He remains the only state governor in the United States to be assassinated while in office.
- 1948 – Nathuram Godse fatally shot Mahatma Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement, at Birla House in Delhi.
- 1972 – On Bloody Sunday, members of the British Parachute Regiment shot at twenty-six civil rights protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing at least thirteen people.