Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 30

This is a list of selected January 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  San Francisco in 1847
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  Mahatma Gandhi
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  Mahatma Gandhi
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  William Goebel
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  King Charles I
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  Audience makes Nazi salute during the Reichstag speech
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  Naro-1
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  Attempted assassination of Andrew Jackson
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  Drawing of Oliver Cromwell's head on a spike

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1820 – Edward Bransfield of the Royal Navy landed on the mainland of Antarctica.	needs more footnotes and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen reaching Antarctica also available on SA Jan 27
1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, one of the world's first modern suspension bridges, opened.	lots of CN tags (5)
1847 – The town of Yerba Buena in Mexican California was renamed San Francisco (pictured).	lots of CN tags and a refimprove section
1858 – Founded by pianist and conductor Charles Hallé, the orchestra the Hallé held their first concert in Manchester.	recentism section
1889 – Archduke Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead in a suicide pact with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.	Rudolf: trivial pop culture; Mayerling: refimprove
1900 – The day before he was to be sworn in as Governor of Kentucky, William Goebel was mortally wounded by an assailant, making him the only U.S. state governor to be assassinated while in office.	citation needed tag, and book sources lack page numbers
1959 – On the return leg of her maiden voyage, the "unsinkable" Danish ocean liner Hans Hedtoft hit an iceberg and sank with the loss of all 95 passengers and crew.	Claim tagged as dubious
1945 – World War II: In one of the largest losses of life in a single sinking in maritime history, the Soviet submarine S-13 sank the Wilhelm Gustloff carrying German soldiers and refugees evacuating from East Prussia, killing at least 9,400 people.	unreferenced section
1982 – Richard Skrenta's "Elk Cloner" became the first known computer virus found "in the wild". It infected Apple II computers via floppy disk.	refimprove section
Balthild |d|680	date is probably not the date of her death; see [1]

Eligible

• 1018 – The German–Polish War ended with the signing of the Peace of Bautzen between Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Bolesław I, the Piast ruler of Poland.
• 1607 – Low-lying places around the coasts of the Bristol Channel of Britain were flooded, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
• 1649 – King Charles I, who was defeated in both the First and the Second English Civil Wars, was beheaded for high treason in front of the Banqueting House in London.
• 1835 – Richard Lawrence became the first person to attempt to assassinate a sitting US president when he failed to kill Andrew Jackson at the US Capitol (assassination attempt pictured) and was subdued by the crowd.
• 1939 – In a speech to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler threatened the "annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe".
• 1948 – Nathuram Godse fatally shot Mahatma Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement, at Birla House in Delhi.
• 1964 – In a bloodless coup, Nguyễn Khánh overthrew Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam, less than three months after Minh executed a bloody coup himself.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: Forces of the Viet Cong and the Vietnamese People's Army launched the Tet Offensive to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam.
• 1972 – The Troubles: On Bloody Sunday, members of the British Parachute Regiment shot 26 civil-rights protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing at least 13 people.
• 1979 – Varig Flight 967 disappeared shortly after takeoff from Tokyo's Narita International Airport en route to Rio de Janeiro.
• 2000 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ivory Coast shortly after takeoff, killing 169 on board.
• 2013 – The Korea Aerospace Research Institute launched Naro-1, South Korea's first carrier rocket and their first launch vehicle to achieve Earth orbit.
• Born/died: | William More |b|1520| Everard Digby |d|1606|Angela of the Cross |b|1846| Rudolf Caracciola |b|1901| Patrick Heron |b|1920| Barbara La Marr |d|1926| Johannes Fibiger |d|1928| Abdullah II of Jordan |b|1962| Professor Longhair |d|1980| John Bardeen |d|1991

January 30: Martyrs' Day in India (1948)

Former Cabanatuan POWs in celebration

• 1287 – Wareru created the Hanthawaddy Kingdom in today's Lower Burma and declared himself king following the collapse of the Pagan Empire.
• 1661 – Two years after his death, Oliver Cromwell's remains were exhumed for a posthumous execution and his head was placed on a spike above Westminster Hall in London, where it remained until 1685.
• 1945 – World War II: Allied forces liberated more than 500 prisoners of war (pictured) from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan in the Philippines.
• 2020 – The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic to be a public health emergency of international concern.

• Livia (b. 59 BC)
• Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis (d. 1770)
• Christian Bale (b. 1974)
• Arthur Chu (b. 1984)

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