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Today in History ~ January 30
Events1487 - Bell chimes invented
1647 - King Charles I handed over to English parliament and beheaded. [H]
1774 - Capt Cook reaches 71ø 10' S 1820 km from S pole (record)
1798 - The first fight to break out on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives began when one congressman spat in another’s face.
1800 - US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
1815 - Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 volumes
1820 - Edward Bransfield discovers Antarctica (UK claim)
1835 - A gunman fired twice on President Andrew Jackson, the first attempt on the life of a U.S. president. Jackson was not injured. [H]
1847 - Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
1854 - 1st election in Washington Territory; 1 682 votes cast
1862 - US Navy's 1st ironclad warship "Monitor" launched
1889 - John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48-inch telescope
1894 - Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
1894 - US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
1917 - 1st jazz record in US cut
1922 - World Law Day
1925 - Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople
1933 - Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen
1933 - The first episode of the "Lone Ranger" radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit. [H]
1943 - The British Royal Air Force bombed Berlin in a daylight raid timed to coincide with a speech by Joseph Goebbels in honor of Hitler’s 10th year in power.
1946 - 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist.
1956 - Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
1956 - Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed
1958 - 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service Dallas Texas
1962 - Two members of the "Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit.
1964 - The United States launched Ranger 6, an unmanned spacecraft carrying television cameras that was to crash-land on the moon.
1965 - State funeral of Winston Churchill
1968 - During the Vietnam War, after calling for a cease-fire during the Tet holiday celebrations, theTet Offensive began as North Vietnam and the Viet Cong launched surprise attacks against the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, temporarily occupying the U.S. Embassy.
1969 - US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
1969 - Beatles last public appearance
1972 - 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." [H]
1973 - Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts
1976 - George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
1979 - The Iranian government announced it would let exiled Shiite Moslem leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who'd been living in exile in France, to return. Washington responded by ordering the evacuation of all American dependents from Iran.
1981 - An estimated 2 million New Yorkers turned out for a ticker-tape parade honoring the freed American hostages from Iran.
1991 - The first major ground battle of the Gulf War was fought at the frontier port of Khafji in Saudi Arabia; 11 U.S. Marines were killed, seven of them by "friendly fire."
1992 - President George H.W. Bush and other world leaders gathered for an unprecedented U.N. Security Council summit to coordinate policy on peacekeeping, disarmament and quelling aggression.
1992 - The space shuttle Discovery landed in California, ending an eight-day mission.
1992 - Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey announced his resignation.
1993 - Parents donated portions of their own lungs to their daughter with cystic fibrosis in pioneering transplant surgery in Los Angeles.
1994 - The Dallas Cowboys won its second straight Super Bowl--a 30-13 victory over the Buffalo Bills, which saw its fourth straight Super Bowl loss.
1995 - 42 people were killed when a car bomb exploded in Algiers, Algeria.
1995 - The U.N. Security Council authorized deployment of 6,000 peacekeepers to Haiti. They would take over from U.S. troops.
1996 - In an election billed as an early barometer for the national political season, Ron Wyden won a close race to become Oregon's first Democratic U.S. senator in 30 years, replacing Bob Packwood.
1997 - The Marine Corps opened an investigation of two videotaped hazing incidents in 1991 and 1993 known as "blood pinnings" in which elite paratroopers had golden jump pins beaten into their chests. (The 1993 incident led to a recommended discharge for a sergeant.)
1999 - NATO ambassadors gave NATO the authority to attack military targets in Serbia if Yugoslav Pres. Slobodan Milosevic continued to violate the 1998 cease-fire negotiated with the rebels in Kosovo.
2000 - A Kenya Airways plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, killing 169 people.
2000 - Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers returned home to a hero's welcome in Cuba, vowing to continue the struggle to wrest the 6-year-old shipwreck survivor from relatives in Miami.
2000 - The St. Louis Rams won Super Bowl XXXIV, defeating the Tennessee Titans 23-16.
2001 - Republicans pushed John Ashcroft's attorney general nomination to the Senate floor by a narrow 10-8 Judiciary Committee vote; all but one Democrat voted against him.
Birthdays Today
1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd U.S. President [1933-1945]: only President to serve more than two terms)
1894 - Boris III, tsar of Bulgaria (1918-43)
1911 - Roy 'Little Jazz' Eldridge (trumpeter: soloist with Gene Krupa's Band; Let Me Off Uptown with Anita O'Day; U.S. President Carter's White House Jazz Party [1978])
1912 - Barbara Tuchman, historian and author (The Guns of August)
1914 - David Wayne (McMeekan) (actor: The Tender Trap, The Last Angry Man, The Three Faces of Eve, The Adromeda Strain)
1914 - John Ireland (actor: Gunfight at the OK Corral, Little Big Horn, Spartacus, All the King's Men, Marilyn: The Untold Story, Messenger of Death)
1921 - Bennie Leighton (pianist)
1922 - Barbara Hale, in Dekalb Ill
1922 - Dick Martin (Emmy Award-winning comedian: Laugh In: "Say good night Dick." "Good night, Dick!")
1923 - Walt 'Moose' Dropo (baseball: Boston Red Sox first baseman: AL Rookie of the Year [1950])
1925 - Dorothy Malone (Maloney) (actress: Written on the Wind, Beach Party, Basic Instinct, Battle Cry, Man of a Thousand Faces)
1927 - Olof Palme, Stockholm, PM of Sweden (1969-76, 1982-86)
1928 - Harold Prince (producer, director: A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
1928 - Ruth Brown (R&B and jazz singer: So Long, Teardrops from My Eyes, Hours, Mambo Baby, Lucky Lips, This Little Girl's Gone Rockin')
1931 - Charlie Neal (basketball)
1931 - Gene Hackman (Academy Award-winning actor: The French Connection [1971], Bonnie and Clyde, Hawaii, Mississippi Burning, The Poseidon Adventure, Postcards from the Edge, Superman, The Firm, Crimson Tide)
1934 - Tammy Grimes (actress: The Runner Stumbles, Backstreet Justice)
1936 - Horst Jankowski (pianist: A Walk In The Black Forest)
1937 - Boris Spassky (World Champion chess player [U.S.S.R.] [1969-1971])
1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, actress (Blow-Up and Julia and Orient Express) in London
1938 - Norma Jean (Beasler) (country singer)
1938 - Paul Neumann (basketball)
1941 - Dick Cheney, US Vice President
1943 - Dave Johnson (baseball: Baltimore Orioles 2nd baseman [1966-72]; Atlanta Braves [1973-75]; Phillies and Chicago Cubs; NY Mets Manager [1984-90]; Cincinnati Reds Manager [1993-?])
1943 - Marty Balin (musician, singer: group: Jefferson Airplane / Starship; solo: Hearts, Atlanta Lady)
1950 - Silvia Bertolaccini (golfer)
1951 - Phil Collins (drummer, singer: group: Genesis: In the Air Tonight, I Missed Again, You Can't Hurry Love, Sussudio, Two Hearts; actor: Oliver, A Hard Day's Night, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Miami Vice, Buster)
1952 - Larry Carriere (hockey)
Famous deaths
1649 - Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason [H]
1948 - Orville Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies at 76
1948 - Mohandes Ghandi, Indian religious and political leader, assassinated in New Delhi. His killer was a Hindu extremist.
1951 - Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75
1969 - Allan Welsh Dulles, US diplomat/director (CIA 1953-61), dies at 75
1976 - Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, SF Blues Great, dies at 80
1980 - Professor Longhair, king of New Orleans music, dies at 61
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