About January 30
January 30, 2024 is the 30th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 336 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 11 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 30
- 1048 –Protestantism: The villagers around today’s Baden-Baden elect their own priest in defiance of the local bishop.
- 1648 –Eighty Years’ War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
- 1661 –Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
- 1667 –The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
- 1703 –The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
- 1790 –The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
- 1835 –In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
- 1847 –Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
- 1858 –The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
- 1889 –Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
- 1902 –The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
- 1911 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 1911 –The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
- 1925 –The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
- 1964 –In a bloodless coup, General Nguyen Khanh overthrows General Duong Van Minh’s military junta in South Vietnam.
- 1971 –Carole King’s Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.
- 1972 –Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
- 1972 –Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1979 –A Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
- 2000 –Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
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