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Thursday, January 30, 2025

On This Day in History

January 30


Historical Events

1815 Burned US Library of Congress re-established with Thomas Jefferson's 6,500 volumes

1902 Britain and Japan sign a treaty after months of negotiating which commits each country to supporting an independent China and Korea, although it acknowledges Japan's 'special interest' in Korea

1933 President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who forms a government with Franz von Papen

1948 Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated in the garden of the New Delhi home he is visiting by Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse

1965 State funeral for Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London; at the time, the world's largest-ever state funeral

1972 Bloody Sunday: 27 unarmed civilians are shot (14 are killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland; the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'The Troubles'


Famous Birthdays

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882 - 1945

Emilio G. Segrè
1905 - 1989

Douglas Engelbart
1925 - 2013

Phil Collins
74th Birthday

Also Gene Hackman (95) and Peter Agre (76)


Famous Deaths

Betsy Ross
1752 - 1836

Mahatma Gandhi
1869 - 1948


Lovesick Prince in Suicide Pact

Two lovers, a pact, then tragedy. But what really happened at Mayerling in 1889 remains a mystery despite 130 years of rumor, speculation – and three movies.

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