Historical Events on January 30

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• 1018 The Holy Roman Empire and Poland conclude the Peace of Bautzen

• 1349 Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king
• 1349 Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
• 1467 Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hung king Mátyás Corvinus beats Bratrici
• 1487 Bell chimes invented
• 1522 Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland
• 1544 Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland
• 1592 Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
• 1607 Massive flooding in England destroys around 200 square miles of coastline and results in approximately 2,000 casualties

• 1648 Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending the Thirty Years War

• 1667 Treaty/Truce of Andrusovo signed between Tsardom of Russia & Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• 1713 England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty

• 1790 Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor

• 1797 US Congress refuses to accept 1st petition from African American
• 1798 Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives, after an argument
• 1800 US population: 5,308,483; African American population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
• 1804 Scottish explorer Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River
• 1806 Prussia takes possession of Hanover
• 1806 The original Lower Trenton Toll Bridge, which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened. A later bridge opened in 1935 is also known as the Trenton Makes - the World Takes Bridge.

• 1820 British explorer Edward Bransfield aboard Williams sights Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica, claiming it for Britain
• 1826 The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened.

• 1841 A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• 1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
• 1854 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
• 1858 Charles Halle founds Halle Orchestra in Manchester, England
• 1858 William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom"
• 1862 USS Monitor, the US Navy's 1st ironclad warship launched

• 1877 Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces
• 1879 French President Patrice de Mac-Mahon resigns
• 1883 England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test
• 1888 Harry Moses 297 not out for NSW against Victoria
• 1889 John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope


• 1889 Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76)
• 1889 Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
• 1892 Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test
• 1892 Capt Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out
• 1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
• 1894 US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
• 1895 C J Eady (Tas) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (v Vic)
• 1895 SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed
• 1895 Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years
• 1902 Britain and Japan sign a treaty after months of negotiating which commits each country to supporting an independent China and Korea, although it acknowledges Japan's 'special interest' in Korea
• 1911 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
• 1911 The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy
• 1913 UK House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill
• 1915 German submarine attack on Le Havre
• 1915 No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Vic v Tas
• 1919 Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army
• 1921 French rapist-murderer Henri-Desire Landru sentenced to death
• 1922 Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over NSW
• 1922 World Law Day 1st celebrated
• 1924 Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Vic win over NSW
• 1924 Gillis Grafström of Sweden wins the men's figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; first of his 3 consecutive Games gold medals in the event
• 1925 Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople
• 1927 Left wins national election in Thuringen
• 1928 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US
• 1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude" premieres in NYC
• 1928 Australian Championships Women's Tennis, Sydney: Daphne Akhurst wins 3rd title; beats Esna Boyd 7-5, 6-2
• 1928 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Frenchman Jean Borotra wins his only Australian title; beats Jack Cummings of Australia 6-4, 6-1, 4-6, 5-7, 6-3
• 1930 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya" premieres in Leningrad
• 1930 The world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.

• 1932 Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval

• 1933 "Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio
• 1933 Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match
• 1933 Australian Championships Women's Tennis, Melbourne: Joan Hartigan Bathurst beats Coral McInnes Buttsworth 6-4, 6-3
• 1933 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Jack Crawford wins his 3rd straight Australian title; beats Keith Gledhill of the US 2-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-2
• 1934 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC
• 1934 Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 yrs 298 days
• 1934 Hitler proclamation on German unified states

• 1936 New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname

• 1937 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Nancye Wynne Bolton wins her first of 6 Australian singles titles; beats Emily Hood Westacott 6-3, 5-7, 6-4
• 1937 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Vivian McGrath wins his only Grand Slam singles event; beats fellow Australian John Bromwich 6-3, 1-6, 6-0, 2-6, 6-1
• 1939 Adolf Hitler threatens Jews during his speech to the German Reichstag (Parliament)
• 1939 Heavy aftershocks destroy some of Chile
• 1940 Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London
• 1940 Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race
• 1940 Hassett's second 122 of the game for Vic can't stop a NSW win
• 1941 Australian troops conquer Derna, Libya
• 1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon
• 1943 6 British Mosquitos bomb Berlin in daylight
• 1943 German assault on French in Tunisia
• 1943 German under officers shot down in Haarlem Neth
• 1943 Adolf Hitler promotes Friedrich Paulus, commander of the 6th Army, to Field Marshal in the hope that he will not surrender
• 1943 Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing
• 1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean
• 1944 World War II: United States troops land on Majuro, Marshall Islands
• 1944 The Battle of Cisterna begins in central Italy
• 1945 "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 9,400 die
• 1945 American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied POWs from Japanese at Cabanatuan
• 1946 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
• 1948 V Winter Olympic Games open in St Moritz, Switzerland

• 1950 "Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV
• 1950 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: In an all-American final Louise Brough beats Doris Hart 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 for her only Australian singles title
• 1950 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Frank Sedgman retains title; beats fellow Australian Ken McGregor 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1
• 1951 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
• 1952 Lehmer verifies: 2^521-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime #
• 1952 Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres


• 1952 Korean War truce talks deadlock
• 1954 Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR
• 1954 Fanfani government of Italy resigns

• 1956 KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1956 KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting

• 1956 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: Mary Carter Reitano beats fellow Australian Thelma Coyne Long 3-6, 6-2, 9-7 for her 1st Australian singles title

• 1958 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx
• 1958 Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars
• 1958 Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello" premieres in NYC
• 1958 UK House of Lords passes bill allowing women to take seats
• 1959 Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test v England, Adelaide Oval
• 1959 Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh" premieres
• 1959 MS Hans Hedtoft sinks, 95 die
• 1960 CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
• 1960 Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands
• 1960 Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI v England
• 1960 US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
• 1960 US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
• 1960 African National Party is founded in Chad
• 1961 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC

• 1961 KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1961 Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide

• 1962 UN General Assembly censures Portugal over Angola
• 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit
• 1962 Laughter epidemic begins at a girls' mission school in Kashasha, Tanganyika, goes on to affect 14 schools and over 1000 people

• 1964 Military coup of Gen Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam
• 1964 Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail
• 1965 "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3

• 1966 -19°F (-28°C), Corinth, Mississippi (state record)
• 1966 -27°F (-33°C), New Market, Alabama (state record)
• 1966 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:05.2)

• 1967 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: American Nancy Richey wins her first and only Australian title; beats home favourite Lesley Turner Bowrey 6-1, 6-4
• 1967 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Roy Emerson repeats previous year's result; beats American Arthur Ashe 6-4, 6-1, 6-4 for his 5th straight Australian title
• 1968 Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey"
• 1968 Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese launch the Tet offensive against South Vietnames and US forces
• 1968 1968 NFL Draft: Ron Yary from USC first pick by Minnesota Vikings
• 1969 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
• 1969 The Beatles perform their last live gig, a 42 minute concert on the roof of Apple Corps HQ in London
• 1971 "Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 19 performances
• 1971 Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, v England
• 1971 UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak
• 1972 Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations
• 1972 'Bloody Sunday': 27 unarmed civilians are shot (of whom 14 were killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles'
• 1973 26th NHL All-Star Game, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Eastern Division beats Western Division, 5-4; MVP: Greg Polis, Pittsburgh Penguins, LW
• 1973 Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts
• 1973 Rock band Kiss plays their 1st show at the Coventry Club in Queens, NY
• 1973 1973 NFL Draft: John Matuszak from University of Tampa first pick by Houston Oilers
• 1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• 1976 1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg
• 1976 George H. W. Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
• 1976 William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA
• 1977 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched US entertainment show ever (100 million)
• 1977 Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW v Qld)
• 1977 Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame
• 1978 Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

• 1979 Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) agrees to new constitution
• 1979 Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.

• 1982 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
• 1982 Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".

• 1982 WBC super welterweight champion Wilfred Benitez of Puerto Rico defeats boxing legend Roberto Durán of Panama in a 15-round unanimous decision at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas
• 1983 Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ
• 1983 Super Bowl XVII, Rose Bowl, Pasadena: Washington Redskins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17; MVP: John Riggins, Washington, RB
• 1988 Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS v N Tvl)

• 1989 Five Pharaoh sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
• 1989 Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
• 1989 Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore
• 1989 Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident
• 1989 The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.

• 1991 Iraqi troops gain control of Al Khafji inside the Saudi Arabian border
• 1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands
• 1993 100,000 Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism
• 1993 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 for her 3rd consecutive Australian singles crown

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