January 30
1649 - King Charles I of England was beheaded.
1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, was born in Hyde Park, New York.
1883 - James Ritty and John Birch received a U.S. patent for the first cash register.
1933 - Adolf Hitler was named chancellor of Germany.
1945 - During World War II, a Soviet submarine torpedoed the German ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea with the loss of more than 9,000 lives, most of them war refugees; roughly 1,000 people survived; Adolf Hitler marked the 12th anniversary of his appointment as Germany’s chancellor with his last public speech in which he called on Germans to keep resisting until victory.
1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist.
1968 - North Vietnamese forces launched attacks against the South Vietnamese, beginning the Tet offensive.
1969 - The Beatles performed in public for the last time in a 45-minute gig on the roof of their Apple Records headquarters in London.
1972 - British troops opened fire on civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland, sparking the "Bloody Sunday" massacre.
1974 - President Richard Nixon delivered what would be his last State of the Union address; Nixon pledged to rein in rising prices without the “harsh medicine of recession” and establish a national health care plan that every American could afford.
1979 - The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return.
1981 - An estimated 2 million New Yorkers turned out for a ticker-tape parade honoring the American hostages freed from Iran.
2003 - Richard Reid, a British citizen and al-Qaida follower, was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Boston for trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes.
2005 - Iraqis voted in their country's first free election in 50 years.
2006 - Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died at age 78.
2007 - Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system debuted.
2020 - Health officials reported the first known case in which the new coronavirus was spread from one person to another in the United States. The World Health Organization declared the virus outbreak, which had reached more than a dozen countries, to be a global emergency. Russia ordered the closure of its 2,600-mile-long land border with China in an effort to limit the spread of the virus.
Birthdays
25 - Hailey Reese (singer)
26 - Danielle Campbell (actress)
31 - Jake Thomas (actor)
31 - Eiza Gonzalez (actress)
32 - Kylie Bunbury (actress)
34 - Becky Lynch (professional wrestler)
35 - Mary Hollis Inboden (actress)
41 - Wilber Valderrama (actor)
41 - Josh Kelley (country singer)
41 - Lena Hall (actress/singer)
47 - Olivia Colman (actress)
47 - Christian Bale (actor)
49 - Tammy Cochran (actor)
55 - Wayne Wilderson (actor)
60 - Dexter Scott King (actor)
62 - Jody Watley (singer)
63 - Brett Butler (actress/comedian)
65 - Ann Dowd (actress)
66 - Curtis Strange (golfer)
70 - Charles S. Dutton (actor)
70 - Phil Collins (singer)
80 - Dick Cheney (former Vice President of the United States)
84 - Vanessa Redgrave (actress)
91 - Gene Hackman (actor)
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Today in Sports History - January 30
1983 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins 27-17 in Pasadena to win Super Bowl XVII; Washington running back John Riggins is named MVP.
1994 - The Dallas Cowboys defeat the Buffalo Bills 30-13 in Atlanta to win Super Bowl XXVIII, the third consecutive year the Bills had lost in the Super Bowl. Dallas running back Emmitt Smith was named MVP.
1996 - Magic Johnson comes out of a five-year retirement to help the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Golden State Warriors 128-118 with 19 points, 8 rebounds and 10 assists.
2000 - The St. Louis Rams defeat the Tennessee Titans 23-16 in Atlanta to win Super Bowl XXXIV; St. Louis quarterback Kurt Warner is named MVP.
2000 - The New York Mets announced that country music star Garth Brooks would be joining the team in training camp.
2000 - John Rocker (Atlanta Braves) was suspended from major league baseball for disparaging foreigners, homosexuals and minorities in an interview published by Sports Illustrated.
2002 - Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz becomes the second player in NBA history (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) to score 34,000 points in a career.
2018 - Houston Rockets forward James Harden records the highest-scoring triple-double in NBA history with 60 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists in a 114-107 win over the Orlando Magic.
1649 - King Charles I of England was beheaded.
1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, was born in Hyde Park, New York.
1883 - James Ritty and John Birch received a U.S. patent for the first cash register.
1933 - Adolf Hitler was named chancellor of Germany.
1945 - During World War II, a Soviet submarine torpedoed the German ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea with the loss of more than 9,000 lives, most of them war refugees; roughly 1,000 people survived; Adolf Hitler marked the 12th anniversary of his appointment as Germany’s chancellor with his last public speech in which he called on Germans to keep resisting until victory.
1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist.
1968 - North Vietnamese forces launched attacks against the South Vietnamese, beginning the Tet offensive.
1969 - The Beatles performed in public for the last time in a 45-minute gig on the roof of their Apple Records headquarters in London.
1972 - British troops opened fire on civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland, sparking the "Bloody Sunday" massacre.
1974 - President Richard Nixon delivered what would be his last State of the Union address; Nixon pledged to rein in rising prices without the “harsh medicine of recession” and establish a national health care plan that every American could afford.
1979 - The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return.
1981 - An estimated 2 million New Yorkers turned out for a ticker-tape parade honoring the American hostages freed from Iran.
2003 - Richard Reid, a British citizen and al-Qaida follower, was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Boston for trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes.
2005 - Iraqis voted in their country's first free election in 50 years.
2006 - Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died at age 78.
2007 - Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system debuted.
2020 - Health officials reported the first known case in which the new coronavirus was spread from one person to another in the United States. The World Health Organization declared the virus outbreak, which had reached more than a dozen countries, to be a global emergency. Russia ordered the closure of its 2,600-mile-long land border with China in an effort to limit the spread of the virus.
Birthdays
25 - Hailey Reese (singer)
26 - Danielle Campbell (actress)
31 - Jake Thomas (actor)
31 - Eiza Gonzalez (actress)
32 - Kylie Bunbury (actress)
34 - Becky Lynch (professional wrestler)
35 - Mary Hollis Inboden (actress)
41 - Wilber Valderrama (actor)
41 - Josh Kelley (country singer)
41 - Lena Hall (actress/singer)
47 - Olivia Colman (actress)
47 - Christian Bale (actor)
49 - Tammy Cochran (actor)
55 - Wayne Wilderson (actor)
60 - Dexter Scott King (actor)
62 - Jody Watley (singer)
63 - Brett Butler (actress/comedian)
65 - Ann Dowd (actress)
66 - Curtis Strange (golfer)
70 - Charles S. Dutton (actor)
70 - Phil Collins (singer)
80 - Dick Cheney (former Vice President of the United States)
84 - Vanessa Redgrave (actress)
91 - Gene Hackman (actor)
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Today in Sports History - January 30
1983 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins 27-17 in Pasadena to win Super Bowl XVII; Washington running back John Riggins is named MVP.
1994 - The Dallas Cowboys defeat the Buffalo Bills 30-13 in Atlanta to win Super Bowl XXVIII, the third consecutive year the Bills had lost in the Super Bowl. Dallas running back Emmitt Smith was named MVP.
1996 - Magic Johnson comes out of a five-year retirement to help the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Golden State Warriors 128-118 with 19 points, 8 rebounds and 10 assists.
2000 - The St. Louis Rams defeat the Tennessee Titans 23-16 in Atlanta to win Super Bowl XXXIV; St. Louis quarterback Kurt Warner is named MVP.
2000 - The New York Mets announced that country music star Garth Brooks would be joining the team in training camp.
2000 - John Rocker (Atlanta Braves) was suspended from major league baseball for disparaging foreigners, homosexuals and minorities in an interview published by Sports Illustrated.
2002 - Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz becomes the second player in NBA history (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) to score 34,000 points in a career.
2018 - Houston Rockets forward James Harden records the highest-scoring triple-double in NBA history with 60 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists in a 114-107 win over the Orlando Magic.