January 30
1649 - King Charles I of England was beheaded on charges of treason.
1911 - James White, an intellectually disabled Black young man who’d been convicted of rape for having sex with a 14-year-old white girl when he was 16, was publicly hanged in Bell County, Kentucky.
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.
1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. (Godse and a co-conspirator were later executed.)
1968 - The Tet Offensive began during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese towns and cities; although the Communists were beaten back, the offensive was seen as a major setback for the U.S. and its allies.
1969 - The Beatles staged an impromptu concert atop Apple headquarters in London; it was the group’s last public performance.
1972 - British troops opened fire on civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland, sparking the "Bloody Sunday" massacre.
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.
1993 - Los Angeles inaugurated its Metro Red Line, the city's first modern subway.
2005 - Iraqis voted in their country’s first free election in a half-century; President George W. Bush called the balloting a resounding success.
2018 - In his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump called on Congress to make good on long-standing promises to fix a fractured immigration system and issued ominous warnings about deadly gangs, the scourge of drugs and violent immigrants living in the country illegally; the speech also included calls for optimism amid a growing economy. In the Democratic response, Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy III said soaring stock prices had boosted investor portfolios and corporate profits but had not eased the anxieties of middle-class families.
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. President Donald Trump described the handful of U.S. cases of the virus as a “very little problem” and said those people were “recuperating successfully.” The State Department advised U.S. citizens against traveling to China.
2022 - Spotify said it would add content advisories before podcasts discussing the coronavirus; the move followed protests of the music streaming service that were kicked off by singer Neil Young over the spread of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.
Birthdays
28 - Danielle Campbell (actress)
33 - Jake Thomas (actor)
33 - Eiza Gonzalez (actress)
34 - Kylie Bunbury (actress)
37 - Mary Hollis Inboden (actress)
43 - Wilmer Valderrama (actor)
43 - Josh Kelley (singer)
49 - Olivia Colman (actress)
49 - Christian Bale (actor)
57 - Wayne Wilderson (actor)
64 - Jody Watley (singer)
65 - Grace Butler (actress/comedian)
67 - Ann Dowd (actress)
72 - Charles S. Dutton (actor)
72 - Phil Collins (singer)
85 - Norma Jean (singer)
86 - Jeanne Pruett (singer)
86 - Vanessa Redgrave (actress)
93 - Gene Hackman (actor)
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Today in Sports History - January 30
1920 - Joe Malone (Quebec Nordiques) scored seven goals against the Toronto St. Patricks in a 10-6 win.
1958 - MLB Commissioner Ford Frick announces that players and coaches, rather than fans, will vote on selections for the All-Star Game; vote returns to the fans in 1970.
1978 - Addie Joss and Larry MacPhail are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1983 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins 27-17 to win Super Bowl XVII.
1994 - The Dallas Cowboys defeated the Buffalo Bills 30-13 to win Super Bowl XVIII; the loss marked the fourth consecutive season which saw the Bills advance to the Super Bowl and lose the championship game.
1996 - Future Basketball Hall of Famer Magic Johnson comes out of a 5 year retirement; helps LA Lakers to 128-118 win over Golden State at the Great Western Forum with 19 points, 8 rebounds & 10 assists.
2000 - The New York Mets announced that Garth Brooks would begin training with the team on February 20.
2000 - John Rocker (Atlanta Braves) was suspended from major league baseball for disparaging foreigners, homosexuals and minorities in an interview published by Sports Illustrated.
2000 - The St. Louis Rams defeat the Tennessee Titans 23-16 to win Super Bowl XXXIV.
2002 - Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz becomes just the second player in NBA history to score 34,000 career points, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
2018 - James Harden of the Houston Rockets records the highest-scoring triple-double in NBA history with 60 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists in the Rockets' 114-107 win over the Orlando Magic.
2022 - Matching the biggest comeback in an AFC championship game, the Cincinnati Bengals rallied from an 18-point hole to stun the Kansas City Chiefs 27-24 in overtime. The Los Angeles Rams rallied from a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter to secure a spot in the Super Bowl at their home stadium with a 20-17 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC championship game. (The Rams would beat the Bengals 23-20 in the Super Bowl two weeks later.)
1649 - King Charles I of England was beheaded on charges of treason.
1911 - James White, an intellectually disabled Black young man who’d been convicted of rape for having sex with a 14-year-old white girl when he was 16, was publicly hanged in Bell County, Kentucky.
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.
1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. (Godse and a co-conspirator were later executed.)
1968 - The Tet Offensive began during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese towns and cities; although the Communists were beaten back, the offensive was seen as a major setback for the U.S. and its allies.
1969 - The Beatles staged an impromptu concert atop Apple headquarters in London; it was the group’s last public performance.
1972 - British troops opened fire on civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland, sparking the "Bloody Sunday" massacre.
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.
1993 - Los Angeles inaugurated its Metro Red Line, the city's first modern subway.
2005 - Iraqis voted in their country’s first free election in a half-century; President George W. Bush called the balloting a resounding success.
2018 - In his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump called on Congress to make good on long-standing promises to fix a fractured immigration system and issued ominous warnings about deadly gangs, the scourge of drugs and violent immigrants living in the country illegally; the speech also included calls for optimism amid a growing economy. In the Democratic response, Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy III said soaring stock prices had boosted investor portfolios and corporate profits but had not eased the anxieties of middle-class families.
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. President Donald Trump described the handful of U.S. cases of the virus as a “very little problem” and said those people were “recuperating successfully.” The State Department advised U.S. citizens against traveling to China.
2022 - Spotify said it would add content advisories before podcasts discussing the coronavirus; the move followed protests of the music streaming service that were kicked off by singer Neil Young over the spread of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.
Birthdays
28 - Danielle Campbell (actress)
33 - Jake Thomas (actor)
33 - Eiza Gonzalez (actress)
34 - Kylie Bunbury (actress)
37 - Mary Hollis Inboden (actress)
43 - Wilmer Valderrama (actor)
43 - Josh Kelley (singer)
49 - Olivia Colman (actress)
49 - Christian Bale (actor)
57 - Wayne Wilderson (actor)
64 - Jody Watley (singer)
65 - Grace Butler (actress/comedian)
67 - Ann Dowd (actress)
72 - Charles S. Dutton (actor)
72 - Phil Collins (singer)
85 - Norma Jean (singer)
86 - Jeanne Pruett (singer)
86 - Vanessa Redgrave (actress)
93 - Gene Hackman (actor)
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Today in Sports History - January 30
1920 - Joe Malone (Quebec Nordiques) scored seven goals against the Toronto St. Patricks in a 10-6 win.
1958 - MLB Commissioner Ford Frick announces that players and coaches, rather than fans, will vote on selections for the All-Star Game; vote returns to the fans in 1970.
1978 - Addie Joss and Larry MacPhail are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1983 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins 27-17 to win Super Bowl XVII.
1994 - The Dallas Cowboys defeated the Buffalo Bills 30-13 to win Super Bowl XVIII; the loss marked the fourth consecutive season which saw the Bills advance to the Super Bowl and lose the championship game.
1996 - Future Basketball Hall of Famer Magic Johnson comes out of a 5 year retirement; helps LA Lakers to 128-118 win over Golden State at the Great Western Forum with 19 points, 8 rebounds & 10 assists.
2000 - The New York Mets announced that Garth Brooks would begin training with the team on February 20.
2000 - John Rocker (Atlanta Braves) was suspended from major league baseball for disparaging foreigners, homosexuals and minorities in an interview published by Sports Illustrated.
2000 - The St. Louis Rams defeat the Tennessee Titans 23-16 to win Super Bowl XXXIV.
2002 - Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz becomes just the second player in NBA history to score 34,000 career points, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
2018 - James Harden of the Houston Rockets records the highest-scoring triple-double in NBA history with 60 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists in the Rockets' 114-107 win over the Orlando Magic.
2022 - Matching the biggest comeback in an AFC championship game, the Cincinnati Bengals rallied from an 18-point hole to stun the Kansas City Chiefs 27-24 in overtime. The Los Angeles Rams rallied from a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter to secure a spot in the Super Bowl at their home stadium with a 20-17 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC championship game. (The Rams would beat the Bengals 23-20 in the Super Bowl two weeks later.)
