Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
January 30
| 1649 | Charles I of England is beheaded at Whitehall by the executioner Richard Brandon. | |
| 1844 | Richard Theodore Greener becomes the first African American to graduate from Harvard University. | |
| 1862 | The USS Monitor is launched at Greenpoint, Long Island. | |
| 1901 | Women Prohibitionists smash 12 saloons in Kansas. | |
| 1912 | The British House of Lords opposes the House of Commons by rejecting home rule for Ireland. | |
| 1931 | The United States awards civil government to the Virgin Islands. | |
| 1933 | Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor by President Paul Hindenburg. | |
| 1936 | Governor Harold Hoffman orders a new inquiry into the Lindbergh kidnapping. | |
| 1943 | Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus surrenders himself and his staff to Red Army troops in Stalingrad. | |
| 1945 | The Allies launch a drive on the Siegfried line in Germany. | |
| 1949 | In India, 100,000 people pray at the site of Gandhi's assassination on the first anniversary of his death. | |
| 1953 | President Dwight Eisenhower announces that he will pull the Seventh Fleet out of Formosa to permit the Nationalists to attack Communist China. | |
| 1964 | The Ranger spacecraft, equipped with six TV cameras, is launched to the moon from Cape Canaveral. | |
| 1972 | British troops shoot dead 14 Irish civilians in Derry, Ireland. The day is forever remembered in Ireland as 'Bloody Sunday.' | |
| 1976 | The U.S. Supreme Court bans spending limits in campaigns, equating funds with freedom of speech. | |
| 1980 | The first-ever Chinese Olympic team arrives in New York for the Winter Games at Lake Placid. | |
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| 1882 | Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States. | |
| 1885 | John Henry Towers, American naval aviation pioneer. | |
| 1912 | Barbara Tuchman, U.S. historian (The Guns of August). | |
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