1502 After returning to Portugal following his discovery of the sea route to India, Vasco da Gama was granted substantial hereditary royal pension of 300,000 reis and estates. On January 30, 1502, he was given the title of Almirante dos mares de Arabia, Persia, India e de todo o Oriente ("Admiral of the Seas of Arabia, Persia, India and all the Orient").
1607 On January 30, 1607 an estimated 200 square miles (520 sq kms) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England were destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths. Recent research has suggested that the cause may have been a tsunami.
1615 The Indian princess Pocahontas and her settler husband John Rolfe had one son named Thomas, who was born on January 30, 1615. Raised and educated in England. He later settled in Virginia and became a planter.
1649 King Charles I of England was beheaded at 2.00 on a snowy January 30, 1649 outside the Banqueting Hall at Whitechapel. On the day of his execution Charles wore two shirts as it was cold and he did not want to be seen shivering lest the crowd thought it was fear. He declared on the scaffold before his execution, “I die a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England, as I found it left me by my father.”
1661 On January 30, 1661, the body of Oliver Cromwell was ritually executed. The date was the 12th anniversary of the execution of King Charles I. the monarch he himself deposed. Some of his personal possessions are now at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country retreat.
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 opened to much fanfare on January 30, 1826. Before the bridge was completed, the island had no fixed connection to the mainland and all movements to and from Anglesey were by ferry across the fast flowing and dangerous waters of the Menai Strait.
1835 In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States on January 30, 1835, Richard Lawrence attempted to shoot President Andrew Jackson, but failed. Lawrence's unsuccessful attempts were noticed by Jackson, who proceeded to beat brutally him down with his cane. The crowd (which included Congressman Davy Crockett) then wrestled Lawrence into submission.
1847 San Francisco was founded on America's west coast in 1776 by the Spanish. It was called "Yerba Buena" which is Spanish for "Good Herb", because mint grew there in abundance. In the summer of 1846, an American naval captain occupied the settlement of Yerba Buena. Half a year later, on January 30, 1847, Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco.
1847 Seven years after Edgar Allan Poe married Virginia Clemm, she became sick with tuberculosis. The family moved to the New York City area in 1843 before settling in The Bronx. Poe began to drink more heavily under the stress of Virginia's illness. Virginia died on January 30, 1847 at their little cottage on the southeast corner of the Grand Concourse and Kingsbridge Road in Fordham (now part of The Bronx). Poe became increasingly unstable after his wife's death.
1858 The Hallé orchestra was founded by Charles Hallé. The first Hallé concert was given in Manchester, England on January 30 1858, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
1862 The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, was launched by the Union on January 30, 1862. It was the first U.S. ship to have a flush toilet. Two months later, the USS Monitor fought in the world's first major battle to take place between two powered ironclad warships during the American Civil War in March 1862. The USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia battled to a draw near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
1882 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, was born on January 30, 1882, in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, Duchess County, New York. His father, James Roosevelt (1828–1900), was a wealthy landowner and vice-president of the Delaware & Hudson Railway. Franklin grew up in an atmosphere of privilege. He went ice boating and tobogganing in the winter and during the summer, Franklin fished and sailed in his father’s boat and bird watched.
1900 The only US state governor to be assassinated was Kentucky’s William Goebel. He was shot on the morning of January 30, 1900 soon after the election ended, and was sworn into office while on his deathbed. His only official business as governor was to call off the militia looking for the person who shot him.
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| Vasco Da Gama |
1607 On January 30, 1607 an estimated 200 square miles (520 sq kms) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England were destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths. Recent research has suggested that the cause may have been a tsunami.
1615 The Indian princess Pocahontas and her settler husband John Rolfe had one son named Thomas, who was born on January 30, 1615. Raised and educated in England. He later settled in Virginia and became a planter.
1649 King Charles I of England was beheaded at 2.00 on a snowy January 30, 1649 outside the Banqueting Hall at Whitechapel. On the day of his execution Charles wore two shirts as it was cold and he did not want to be seen shivering lest the crowd thought it was fear. He declared on the scaffold before his execution, “I die a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England, as I found it left me by my father.”
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| Anonymous Dutch painting of the execution of Charles I, 1649. |
1661 On January 30, 1661, the body of Oliver Cromwell was ritually executed. The date was the 12th anniversary of the execution of King Charles I. the monarch he himself deposed. Some of his personal possessions are now at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country retreat.
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 opened to much fanfare on January 30, 1826. Before the bridge was completed, the island had no fixed connection to the mainland and all movements to and from Anglesey were by ferry across the fast flowing and dangerous waters of the Menai Strait.
1835 In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States on January 30, 1835, Richard Lawrence attempted to shoot President Andrew Jackson, but failed. Lawrence's unsuccessful attempts were noticed by Jackson, who proceeded to beat brutally him down with his cane. The crowd (which included Congressman Davy Crockett) then wrestled Lawrence into submission.
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| The etching of the assassination attempt. |
1847 San Francisco was founded on America's west coast in 1776 by the Spanish. It was called "Yerba Buena" which is Spanish for "Good Herb", because mint grew there in abundance. In the summer of 1846, an American naval captain occupied the settlement of Yerba Buena. Half a year later, on January 30, 1847, Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco.
1847 Seven years after Edgar Allan Poe married Virginia Clemm, she became sick with tuberculosis. The family moved to the New York City area in 1843 before settling in The Bronx. Poe began to drink more heavily under the stress of Virginia's illness. Virginia died on January 30, 1847 at their little cottage on the southeast corner of the Grand Concourse and Kingsbridge Road in Fordham (now part of The Bronx). Poe became increasingly unstable after his wife's death.
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| Virginia Poe, as painted after her death |
1858 The Hallé orchestra was founded by Charles Hallé. The first Hallé concert was given in Manchester, England on January 30 1858, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
1862 The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, was launched by the Union on January 30, 1862. It was the first U.S. ship to have a flush toilet. Two months later, the USS Monitor fought in the world's first major battle to take place between two powered ironclad warships during the American Civil War in March 1862. The USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia battled to a draw near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
1882 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, was born on January 30, 1882, in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, Duchess County, New York. His father, James Roosevelt (1828–1900), was a wealthy landowner and vice-president of the Delaware & Hudson Railway. Franklin grew up in an atmosphere of privilege. He went ice boating and tobogganing in the winter and during the summer, Franklin fished and sailed in his father’s boat and bird watched.
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| FDR's birthplace By Anthony22 at English Wikipedia |
1900 The only US state governor to be assassinated was Kentucky’s William Goebel. He was shot on the morning of January 30, 1900 soon after the election ended, and was sworn into office while on his deathbed. His only official business as governor was to call off the militia looking for the person who shot him.
1916 The world’s earliest sighting of a UFO from an airplane occurred on January 30, 1916, when a British pilot near Rochford, Essex, reported seeing a row of lights, resembling the lighted windows on a train carriage, that rose up into the sky and disappeared.
1926 Nikola Tesla predicted the modern cell phone in 1926. He said in the January 30, 1926 issue of Collier's magazine: “We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but...we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face... a man will be able to carry one in his pocket.”
1926 Nikola Tesla predicted the modern cell phone in 1926. He said in the January 30, 1926 issue of Collier's magazine: “We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but...we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face... a man will be able to carry one in his pocket.”
1933 In the April 1932 German election, the Nazi party achieved 162 seats in the 422-member diet. Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Germany's Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Upon taking office Hitler immediately began accumulating power and changing the nature of the Chancellorship. He created a dictatorship by playing party and state institutions against each other and continually creating new offices and appointments.
1948 Aviation pioneer Orville Wright died from a heart attack while fixing the doorbell to his home in Oakwood, Ohio on January 30, 1948. Orville Wright's home in Dayton has been preserved by the city. The airfield where they made experimental flights in Dayton is now part of the Wright-Patterson Airforce base.
1948 On January 30, 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was walking through a garden to a pergola on his way onto a prayer meeting at the Birla House Gardens, New Delhi. He was shot by a Hindu nationalist fanatic, Nathuram Godse at 5.13 pm. Gandhi was carried back to his couch in Biria House, where he was given a cup of milk which he couldn't drink. His famous last words were, "He Ram!" (O God!). He died 40 minutes later.
1951 Austrian-German engineer Ferdinand Porsche, who founded the car company Porsche, was a member of the Nazi party and was arrested by the French authorities at the end of World War II. He spent two years in prison before being released without charge. Porsche's health was damaged by his time in prison. In November 1950 he suffered a stroke which disabled him until his death on January 30, 1951, aged 75
1956 On January 30, 1957 300 UK MPs and peers watched the first full length TV show produced in color in Britain. Television sets were rigged up by the BBC in a committee room. TV broadcaster Sylvia Peters — in a green taffeta dress — was the announcer in the half-hour program. Guyanese musician Cy Grant appeared in a vivid shirt and sang a calypso.
1965 The state funeral service for Winston Churchill was held at St Paul's Cathedral on January 30, 1965. It was the first state funeral for a non royal family member since that of Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar in 1914. The state funeral was the largest gathering of dignitaries in Britain as representatives from over 100 countries attended it. The five hour burial ceremony was watched by 350 million on television.
1966 By the time the Beatles stopped touring in late 1966, their promotional films, like their recordings, had become highly sophisticated. Their one for "Strawberry Fields Forever" shot on January 30, 1967 at Knole Park in Kent, featured stop motion animation and other special effects.
1969 The last public performance of The Beatles was on the roof of Apple Records in London on January 30, 1969. During the 42-minute set, the Beatles were heard playing nine takes of five songs before the Metropolitan Police Service asked them to reduce the volume. The concert came to an end with the conclusion of "Get Back," with John Lennon saying, "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition."
1971 Carole King's Tapestry album, which was released on January 30 1971, is one of the best-selling albums of all time, with over 25 million copies sold worldwide. The album has been listed on the Billboard 200 for over 300 weeks between 1971 and 2011, the longest by any female solo artist.
1972 On Sunday January 30, 1972, members of the British Parachute Regiment shot twenty-six civil rights protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing at least thirteen people. This "Bloody Sunday" massacre fermented fresh grievances for the Irish against the English and Catholics against Protestants.
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| Mural by the Bogside Artists depicting all who were killed on the day By Vintagekits |
1975 The Rubik's Cube was invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Rubik's purpose for coming up with the cube was solving the structural problem of moving the parts independently without the entire mechanism falling apart. He didn't realize that he'd created a puzzle until he scrambled it the first time and it took Rubik a month to restore his cube to its original set up. Ernő Rubik applied for a patent for his puzzle on January 30, 1975.
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