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What happened in history on this day: January 30?
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- 1156 - Herman van Horn bishop of Utrecht (1151/52-56), dies.
- 1349 - Günther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king.
- 1349 - Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred.
- 1384 - Louis van Male count of Flanders/Nevers/Réthel, dies.
- 1393 - Aimery Poitiers French nobleman, burned at royal ball.
- 1393 - Yvain son of Earl of Foix, burned at royal ball.
- 1467 - Battle at Velke Kostolany Hung king Mátyás Corvinus beats Bratríci.
- 1487 - Bell chimes invented.
- 1522 - Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland.
- 1544 - Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland.
- 1566 - Birth of Alessandro Piccinini composer.
- 1584 - Jonker Wigbold van Ewsum mister of Nienoord, dies in battle.
- 1584 - Pieter Jansz Pourbus Flemish painter, dies.
- 1592 - Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII.
- 1609 - Birth of Wenzel E Fürst von Lobkowitz Austrian chancellor (-1674).
- 1616 - Birth of William Sancroft Archbishop (Canterbury).
- 1624 - Birth of Arnold Geulincx South Netherlands, philosopher (About Virtue).
- 1628 - Birth of George Villiers second duke of Buckingham England.
- 1644 - William Chillingworth English theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies.
- 1647 - Birth of Konrad Hoffler composer.
- 1647 - Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400.
- 1648 - Spain and Netherlands sign Peace of Münster, ending Tachtigjarige War.
- 1649 - Charles Stuart, King of Great Britain (1625-49), is beheaded for treason, at Pontefract Castle, outside Banqueting Hall at Whitehall.
- 1667 - Treaty of Andrussovo Russia and Poland sign peace treaty.
- 1687 - Birth of Balthasar Neumann in Eger, Austrian Empire; architect (palace of Bishop of Würzburg).
- 1694 - Birth of Joseph Joachim Benedict Munster composer.
- 1697 - Birth of Johann Joachim Quantz German royal flautist/composer.
- 1708 - Birth of Georg D Ehret German/English cartoonist.
- 1713 - England and Netherlands sign second anti-French boundary treaty.
- 1719 - Birth of Magnus G Lichtwer German writer (Äsopischer Fabeln).
- 1730 - Peter II Alekseyevitch emperor of Russia (1727-30), dies at age 14.
- 1774 - Captain Cook reaches 71 degrees 10' S, 1820 km from South pole (record).
- 1775 - Birth of Walter Savage Landor Warwick England, critic/writer (Imaginary Conversation).
- 1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland.
- 1790 - Lifeboat first tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor.
- 1797 - Birth of Edwin Vose Sumnerl US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1863).
- 1797 - US Congress refuses to accept first petitions from American blacks.
- 1804 - Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River.
- 1806 - Prussia takes possession of Hanover.
- 1815 - Burned Library of Congress re-established with Thomas Jefferson's 6500 volumes.
- 1816 - Birth of Nathaniel Prentiss Banks; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1894).
- 1820 - Edward Bransfield aboard ship Williams discovers Antarctica (United Kingdom claim).
- 1822 - Birth of John Basil Turchin [Ivan Turchinoff]; US Brigadier General (Union volunteers).
- 1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
- 1829 - Birth of Alfred Cummings in Georgia, USA; Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (dies 1910).
- 1835 - Birth of Oliver Edwards; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1904).
- 1835 - Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington DC.
- 1838 - Osceola, chief of Seminole Indians, dies in jail.
- 1844 - Birth of Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing; German General/Governor-General of Belgium (1914-17).
- 1846 - Birth of Francis H Bradley; British philosopher (neo-idealism).
- 1847 - Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.
- 1853 - Birth of Leland Hone; cricket player (England keeper 1879 without county experience).
- 1853 - Emperor Napoleon III marries Eugénie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman.
- 1854 - First election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast.
- 1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, is launched, 115 days from laying the keel.
- 1866 - Birth of Gelett Burgess; author (Purple Cow).
- 1868 - A shower of an estimated 100,000 stony meteorites totalling about 2 tons occurs at Pultusk, Poland. Largest known quantity of meteorites in one shower.
- 1871 - Birth of Seymour Hicks in Saint Helier, Jersey; actor-manager (Scrooge).
- 1871 - Birth of Wilfred Lucas; actor (Pardon Us, Chump at Oxford).
- 1873 - Birth of Rose Melville; actress (Sis).
- 1877 - Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces.
- 1879 - French President MacMahon resigns.
- 1882 - Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in New Hyde Park, New York, USA; 32nd President (Democrat) (1933-1945).
- 1883 - England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney cricket Test.
- 1888 - Asa Gray, US botanist (Flora of North America), dies at age 77.
- 1889 - Victoria beats New South Wales after following on (New South Wales all out 63 needed 76).
- 1889 - Crown Prince Archduke Rudolph of Austria-Hungary and his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera are found dead at the hunting lodge of Mayerling, outside Vienna, possibly a murder-suicide.
- 1892 - Birth of Grigore Gafencu; Roman minister of Foreign affairs (1938-39).
- 1892 - Captain Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out.
- 1894 - Birth of Boris III, tsar of Bulgaria (1918-43).
- 1894 - Birth of Marcel Canneel; Flemish painter (Reuzenstoet).
- 1894 - Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- 1894 - US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by US Admiral Benham.
- 1895 - SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed.
- 1895 - Tasmania beats Victoria for first F-C cricket victory in 41 years.
- 1895 - With the US Treasury gold reserve at $22 million, about 11 days from bankruptcy, President Grover Cleveland makes a deal with financier J.P. Morgan, to sell a US bond issue at 3.75 percent interest to the Rothschilds and others in London, with Morgan being given a free hand to run the country for a month.
- 1897 - John Cottam, cricket player (Test for Australia 1897, no Sheffield matches), dies.
- 1898 - Birth of Alfred Schläppi in Switzerland; four-man bobsled (Olympics-gold-1924).
- 1899 - Birth of Max Theiler; English/US microbiologist (Nobel Prize 1951).
- 1900 - Birth of Martita Hunt in Argentina; actress (Man in Grey, Becket).
- 1900 - Birth of Sandy Powell in Rotherham, England; costume designer (Rob Roy).
- 1902 - Birth of Elise Cavanna; actress (Pharmacist, Dentist, Barber Shop).
- 1902 - Birth of Nikolaus Pevsner in England; art historian (The Buildings of England).
- 1903 - Birth of G Evelyn Hutchinson; British zoologist (Treatise on Limnology).
- 1906 - Birth of Greta Nissen; actress (Ambassador Bill).
- 1909 - Birth of Richard Hearne in Norwich, England; actor (Captain Horatio Hornblower).
- 1909 - Birth of Saul David Alinsky in Chicago, Illinois, USA; radical writer (John L Lewis).
- 1910 - Birth of Frans Dohmen; union leader (Dutch Catholic Mineworker's Union).
- 1911 - First rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba.
- 1911 - Birth of Hugh Marlowe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Ellery Queen).
- 1911 - Birth of Roy Eldridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; jazz trumpeter (Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw).
- 1912 - Birth of Barbara Tuchman; US historian/author (Pulitzer, Guns of August).
- 1912 - Birth of Jadwiga Wajsowna-Marcinkiewicz; discus thrower (Olympics-bronze-1932).
- 1913 - Birth of Dicky Fuller; cricket player (one Test West Indies versus England 1935, 1, 0-12).
- 1913 - British House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill.
- 1914 - Birth of David Wayne in Traverse City, Michigan, USA; actor (The Andromeda Strain, Adam's Rib, Batman TV show, Dallas, House Calls, St. Elsewhere, Ellery Queen, Matt Houston, Disneyland).
- 1914 - Birth of John Ireland in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; actor (Rawhide, Gunfight at the OK Corral).
- 1915 - Birth of Dorothy Dell; actor (Little Miss Marker, Wharf Angel).
- 1915 - Birth of Pierre Wissmer; Swiss composer/theory (Capitaine Bruno).
- 1915 - German submarine attack on Le Havre.
- 1918 - Birth of David Opatoshu in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Bonino, Secret Empire, Masada).
- 1919 - Cincinnati Reds hires Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army.
- 1920 - Birth of George Skibine; Russian/US dancer/choreographer (Tragedy in Verona).
- 1921 - Birth of Bernie Leighton in West Haven, Connecticut, USA; orchestra leader (Chance of a Lifetime).
- 1922 - Birth of Dick Martin in Detroit, Michigan, USA; actor/comedian (Laugh-In, Carbon Copy).
- 1922 - Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian cricket win over New South Wales.
- 1922 - World Law Day is first celebrated.
- 1924 - Birth of Margaret Beda Nicholson; author (No Medals for the Major).
- 1924 - Birth of Shirley Chisholm; American politician (Representative-Democrat-New York).
- 1924 - Bill Ponsford scores second 110 of the cricket game in Victoria win over New South Wales.
- 1925 - Birth of Dorothy Malone in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (At Gunpoint, Night and Day, Peyton Place).
- 1925 - John F Mellaerts, Flemish social founder (Boerenbond), dies at age 79.
- 1925 - Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople.
- 1926 - Birth of Ruth Brown in Portsmouth, Virginia, USA; actress (Leona - Hello Larry, Checking In).
- 1927 - Birth of Olof Palme in Stockholm, Sweden; Prime Minister of Sweden (1969-76, 1982-86) (assassinated in 1986).
- 1927 - Left wins national election in Thüringen.
- 1928 - First radio telephone connection between Netherlands and US.
- 1928 - Birth of Harold Prince; American producer/director (West Side Story, Evita, Phantom of Opera).
- 1928 - Donald Bradman scores 134 not out (225 minutes, 13 fours) New South Wales versus Victoria.
- 1929 - Birth of Hugh Tayfield; cricket player (celebrated South African off-spinner 1949-60).
- 1930 - Birth of Gene Hackman in California, USA; actor (Bonnie and Clyde, Under Fire, Superman).
- 1930 - The world's first radiosonde is launched from Pavlovsk, USSR.
- 1930 - Birth of Magnus Adem Malan; South African minister of Defense (1980-).
- 1931 - Birth of Jack Bowman; Chief Constable (Tayside).
- 1931 - Birth of Shirley Hazzard; Australian author (Transit of Venus).
- 1931 - Birth of Stewart B McKinney; American politician (Representative-Republican-Connecticut, 1971-).
- 1931 - The movie City Lights is released to theaters, starring Charlie Chaplin.
- 1932 - Birth of Kazuo Inamori; Japanese business executive (Kyocera Ceramics Co).
- 1932 - Clarrie Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa first innings at Adelaide Oval.
- 1933 - The Lone Ranger premieres on ABC radio.
- 1933 - Birth of Bob Muddimer; CEO (Ranks Hovis McDougall).
- 1933 - Birth of Louis Rukeyser; financial whiz (Wall Street Week, Channel 13).
- 1933 - German President Paul von Hindenburg offers Chancellorship to Adolf Hitler, who accepts.
- 1933 - Clarrie Grimmett takes 7-86 for South Africa in Queensland second inn, 13-135 for cricket match.
- 1934 - Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shields career age 51 years 298 days.
- 1934 - Birth of Tammy Grimes in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Can't Stop the Music).
- 1934 - Adolf Hitler makes proclamation on German unified states.
- 1934 - In Moscow, Russia, the USSR launches the Osoaviakhim balloon, reaching record 72,178 feet, but crashes on landing 70 miles from Moscow, killing the crew.
- 1935 - Birth of John George Hughes; bishop of Kensington.
- 1935 - Birth of Martin Taylor; vice-chairman, Hanson.
- 1935 - Birth of Richard Brautigan in Tacoma, Washington, USA; novelist/poet (Trout Fishing...).
- 1936 - Fans asked to pick a new name for Boston Braves; they choose "The Bees" it doesn't catch on and is scrapped by 1940 season.
- 1936 - Victoria need 442 to win against New South Wales, but lose, all out for 415.
- 1937 - Second of Josef Stalin's Soviet Union purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death.
- 1937 - Birth of Boris Spassky in the USSR; world chess champion (1969-72).
- 1937 - Birth of Vanessa Redgrave in London, England; actress (Blow-Up, Julia, Orient Express).
- 1938 - Birth of Marcel P A van Dam; Dutch politician/CEO (VARA Radio/TV).
- 1938 - Birth of Marlies van Alcmaer [Smal]; Dutch actress/director (A Bridge too Far).
- 1939 - Birth of Eleanor Smeal; feminist/president (NOW).
- 1939 - Birth of Frank R Wolf; American politician (Representative-Republican-Virginia, 1981-).
- 1939 - Heavy earthquake aftershocks destroy some of Chile.
- 1939 - Adolf Hitler addresses the Reichstag, saying that if Jews lead the world into war, it would cause the destruction of Jews in Europe.
- 1940 - Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race.
- 1940 - Hassett's second 122 of the game for Victoria can't stop a New South Wales win.
- 1941 - Australian troops conquer Derna Libya.
- 1941 - Birth of Dick Cheney; American politician (Representative-Republican-Wyoming/George Bush's secretary of defense 1989-93/Vice President 2001-2009).
- 1941 - Birth of Joe Terranoua; rocker (Danny and The Juniors).
- 1942 - Birth of Andres [Dries Holten]; Dutch singer (Sandra and Andres).
- 1942 - Birth of Dave Brown; cricket player (Warwicks pace bowler, played 26X for England).
- 1942 - Birth of Heidi Brühl; German actress/singer (Mädels vom Immenhof).
- 1942 - Birth of Marty Balin in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; singer (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship - "Miracles").
- 1942 - Japanese troops land on Ambon.
- 1943 - Six British Mosquito fighter-planes perform daylight bombing raid on Berlin, Germany.
- 1943 - Birth of Davy Johnson; baseball manager (New York Mets).
- 1943 - German assault on French in Tunisia.
- 1943 - Adolf Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to General - field marshal.
- 1943 - Adolf Hitler names Karl Dönitz as Grand Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the navy.
- 1943 - USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean.
- 1944 - Birth of John Thornton; English chocolate factory/multi-millionaire.
- 1944 - US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands.
- 1945 - German passenger ship Wilhelm Gustloff is struck by three Soviet torpedoes off Danzig. The ship quickly capsizes, with the loss of 5200-5400 of estimated 6100 on board. Worst sea loss ever.
- 1945 - Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarian/German botanist, dies at age 90.
- 1945 - In Malta, British and American representatives meet over five days to discuss military strategy, Italy, China, and occupation zones in Germany.
- 1946 - The Austrian government submits to the European Advisory Council its claims of reparations from Germany, totaling US$7.65 billion.
- 1946 - Birth of Lord Mackay of Drumadoon; British Queen's Council.
- 1947 - Birth of Steve Marriott; rock guitarist/vocalist (Humble Pie - "Eat It", The Faces).
- 1947 - Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at age 80.
- 1948 - (to February 8) The V Olympic Winter Games are held in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
- 1948 - Birth of Nicholas Broomfield; director/editor (Dark Obsession, Heidi Fleiss).
- 1948 - Herb Pennock, pitcher (New York Yankees)/general manager (Philadelphia Phillies), dies.
- 1948 - Death of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, India spiritual and political leader, assassinated in New Delhi by a militant Hindu nationalist, at age 78.
- 1948 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer, dies at age 76.
- 1949 - Birth of William King in Alabama, USA; soul trumpeter (The Commodores - "Easy").
- 1950 - NBC premieres the Robert Montgomery Presents 60-minute dramatic anthology TV show.
- 1950 - Birth of Bruce Howard Lidington; actor (Sword of Valiant, Mosses).
- 1950 - Birth of Ralph Wilcox in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; actor (Big Eddie, Busting Loose).
- 1951 - Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio.
- 1951 - Birth of Charles S Dutton in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; actor (Alien 3, Crocodile Dundee 2, Roc).
- 1951 - Birth of Clifford Leon Anderson; rocker (The Cure).
- 1951 - Birth of Marv Ross; rocker (Quarterflash - "Harden My Heart").
- 1951 - Birth of Trevor Laughlin; cricket player (Australian all-rounder 1978-79).
- 1951 - Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at age 75.
- 1952 - Lehmer verifies 2^521-1 and 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime numbers.
- 1953 - Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at age 68.
- 1954 - Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR.
- 1954 - Birth of Alides Hidding; singer/guitarist (Time Bandits).
- 1954 - Italy's Fanfani government resigns.
- 1955 - Birth of Curtis Strange in Norfolk, Virginia, USA; PGA golfer (1989 US Open).
- 1955 - Birth of Judith Tarr; American sci-fi author (Isle of Glass, Ars Magica).
- 1955 - Birth of Michael Thompson; guitarist (Afterburn, Fresh, Sahara, Gridlock'd).
- 1956 - Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher, dies at age 88.
- 1956 - Jane Seymour, actress (Young Mr Bobbin), dies at age 56.
- 1956 - Martin Luther King Junior's home is bombed.
- 1957 - Birth of William Payne Stewart in Springfield, Missouri, USA; PGA golfer (1983 Walt Disney).
- 1957 - Grigore Gafencu, Romanian minister of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at age 65.
- 1957 - US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine".
- 1958 - First two-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas, Texas.
- 1958 - Baseball announces players and coaches rather than fans pick all stars.
- 1958 - Birth of Brett Butler in Montgomery, Alabama, USA; comedienne (Grace - Grace Under Fire).
- 1958 - Birth of Rob van Zandvoort; Dutch rock vocalist/keyboardist (Jack of Hearts).
- 1958 - Earnest H Heinkel, German airplane builder (WWII), dies at age 70.
- 1958 - British House of Lords passes bill allowing women in.
- 1959 - Australia 1-200 first day fourth Test versus England, Adelaide Oval.
- 1959 - Birth of Jody Watley in Chicago, Illinois, USA; dancer (Solid Gold) / singer ("Looking For a New Love").
- 1959 - The ABC TV network airs the Walt Disney Presents TV show, entitled The Peter Tchaikovsky Story. The show is the first stereophonic broadcast of a television program. In some cities, one channel is transmitted on an AM radio station, the other channel on an FM station.
- 1960 - Birth of Tony O'Dell in Pasadena, California, USA; actor (Alan Pinkard - Head of the Class).
- 1960 - US Central Intelligence Agency okays Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart).
- 1960 - Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands.
- 1960 - Riot curtails third day's play at Port-Of-Spain, West Indies versus England.
- 1960 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss.
- 1960 - US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins.
- 1961 - Birth of Ranjit Madurasinghe; cricket player (three Tests for Sri Lanka 1988-92).
- 1961 - Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC.
- 1961 - US President John Kennedy asks for an Alliance for Progress and Peace Corps.
- 1961 - Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide.
- 1962 - Two members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act are killed when their 7-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1962 - United Nations General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola).
- 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1963 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (Litanies à la Vierge Noire), dies at age 74.
- 1963 - P F "Plum" Warner, cricket player (England manager during Bodyline tour), dies.
- 1964 - Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at age 80.
- 1964 - Birth of Cheryl Akemi Toma in Pearl City, Hawaii, USA; Miss Hawaii-America (1990).
- 1964 - Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam.
- 1964 - Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail.
- 1965 - Birth of Julie McCullough in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; actress (Growing Pains).
- 1965 - State funeral of Winston Churchill.
- 1965 - Vic Jackson, cricket player (New South Wales/Leicerstershire off-spinner), dies in car.
- 1966 - Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:05.2).
- 1966 - Birth of Danielle Goyette; ice hockey forward (Canada, Olympics-1998).
- 1966 - Birth of Daphne Ashbrook in Long Beach, California, USA; actress (Liz - Our Family Honor).
- 1967 - Birth of Bill Leverty in Richmond, Virginia, USA; guitarist (Firehouse - "Love of a Lifetime").
- 1967 - Lee Morgan, actor (Dungeons of Harrow, Last Rebel), dies.
- 1968 - Birth of Bob Nardella; hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998).
- 1968 - Birth of Felipe de Borbon, Prince of Asturias, heir to Spanish throne.
- 1968 - Jamaica approves decimal currency, and introduces dollar to replace pound.
- 1969 - Allan Welsh Dulles, US diplomat/director (US Central Intelligence Agency 1953-61), dies at age 75.
- 1969 - The Beatles hold their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London, England. The 42-minute impromptu free concert is broken up by the police.
- 1969 - Dominique G Pire, clergyman, (Europe village Nobel Prize 1958), dies at age 58.
- 1969 - US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere.
- 1970 - Birth of Edwin de Kruyf/Kruijff; soccer player (FC Utrecht, FC Groningen).
- 1970 - Birth of Hans Spark; soccer player (RKC).
- 1970 - Birth of Oleg Khmyl; NHL defenseman (Belarus, Olympics-1998).
- 1970 - Birth of Scott Levins in Spokane, Washington, USA; NHL right wing (Ottawa Senators).
- 1970 - Malcolm Keen, English actor (Uncle Chris - Mama), dies at age 82.
- 1971 - Birth of Brent Moss; WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals).
- 1971 - Birth of Chris Slade; NFL outside linebacker (New England Patriots).
- 1971 - Birth of Derek Allen; NFL/WLAF offensive linebacker (New York Giants, Rhein Fire).
- 1971 - Birth of Kevin Knox; WLAF receiver (Rhein Fire).
- 1971 - Birth of Kimo Von Oelhoffen; NFL defensive tackle (Cincinnati Bengals).
- 1971 - Birth of Milko Pieren; Dutch soccer player (Sparta).
- 1971 - Birth of Quentin Neujahr; NFL center (Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns).
- 1971 - Birth of Takeshi Yamanaka; hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998).
- 1971 - Birth of Trent Klatt in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, USA; NHL right wing (Philadelphia Flyers).
- 1971 - Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his first Test bowl, versus England.
- 1972 - Birth of Burt Thornton; Canadian Football League receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats).
- 1972 - Birth of Chris Simon in Wawa, Ontario, Canada; NHL left wing (Colorado Avalanche).
- 1972 - Birth of Jill McGill in Denver, Colorado, USA; LPGA golfer (1995 British Open-second).
- 1972 - In Londonderry, Northern Ireland, British paratroopers open fire on crowds at a civil rights demonstration, killing 13 civilians.
- 1972 - Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth.
- 1973 - 26th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at New York Rangers.
- 1973 - Birth of Brad Yamaoka; Canadian Football League running back (BC Lions).
- 1973 - Birth of Holly Noelle Roehl; Miss Indiana-USA (1996).
- 1973 - Birth of Jalen Rose; NBA guard (Indiana Pacers).
- 1973 - Birth of Jimmy Oliver; NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers).
- 1973 - Birth of Sharone Wright; NBA center/forward (Toronto Raptors).
- 1973 - Near the coast of Michoacan, Mexico, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurs. 52 people killed, 390 were injured, 22,000 made homeless. A volcano 80 kilometers north of Colima begins eruption.
- 1973 - Jack McGowan, actor (On Our Selection), dies at age 54.
- 1973 - US Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy and McCord guilty on all counts.
- 1973 - KISS rock group plays their first show (Coventry Club in Queens, New York).
- 1974 - Bill Whitty, cricket player (37 wickets versus South Africa 1910-11 series), dies.
- 1974 - Birth of Christian Bale in Wales; actor (Empire of the Sun, Little Women).
- 1974 - Birth of Martina Jerant in Windsor, Ontario, Canada; basketball center (Olympics-1996).
- 1974 - Birth of Robert Rollins; cricket player (big-hitting Essex wicketkeeper-batsman).
- 1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk.
- 1975 - Boris Blacher, German composer (Purloined Letter), dies at age 72.
- 1976 - First-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 1976 - Birth of Florian Keller in Munchen, Germany; hockey player (Team Germany, Rosenheim).
- 1976 - William E Colby ends term as 10th director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1976 - George Bush becomes 11th director of US Central Intelligence Agency (until 1977).
- 1976 - Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great, dies at age 80.
- 1976 - Percy Tyson "Plum" Lewis, cricket player (pair in only Test for South Africa), dies.
- 1976 - A-Mark Coin Company of California pays $7.3 million at auction to acquire the LaVere Redfield hoard of about 407,000 US silver dollars.
- 1977 - The eighth (and final) part of the mini-series Roots becomes the most-watched US TV entertainment show to date.
- 1977 - Allan Border scores 36 in his first-class innings (New South Wales versus Queensland).
- 1977 - Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr as president of Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 1978 - Addie Joss and Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 1978 - Birth of Lnd Girchoukevitch; NHL goaltender (Belarus, Olympics-1998).
- 1978 - Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio.
- 1979 - Birth of Diva Zappa, daughter of Frank Zappa.
- 1979 - Birth of Karen Smith; Australian field hockey midfielder/halfback (Olympics-1996).
- 1979 - Rhodesia agrees to new constitution.
- 1980 - Lil Dagover, actress (Destiny, Spiders), dies at age 82.
- 1980 - Birth of Wilmer Valderrama; Venezuelan/Colombian-American comedian.
- 1981 - Birth of Dimitar Berbatov; Bulgarian national football team captain and Tottenham Hotspur player.
- 1981 - 8th American Music Awards: Kenny Rogers wins.
- 1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner."
- 1982 - Stanley Holloway, comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at age 91.
- 1982 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners.
- 1982 - Félix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes), dies at age 76.
- 1983 - Super Bowl XVII at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California: Washington Redskins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17; Most Valuable Player: John Riggins, Running Back.
- 1983 - [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at age 65.
- 1983 - Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champion.
- 1983 - Joan Valerie, actress (Pier 13), dies of pneumonia.
- 1983 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic.
- 1985 - Ken Mayers, actor (Robbie Robertson - Space Patrol), dies at age 67.
- 1986 - Ticker Freeman, pianist (Dinah Shore Show), dies at age 74.
- 1987 - Angelo Rutherford, actor (Willie - Gentle Ben), dies at age 32.
- 1987 - Ken Drake, actor (Crime and Punishment USA), dies.
- 1988 - Hansie Cronje gets a pair in second first-class game (OFS versus N Tvl).
- 1989 - 16th American Music Awards: Randy Travis and George Michael win.
- 1989 - Five pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor.
- 1989 - Last day of first class cricket for Dav Whatmore.
- 1989 - American Olympic medalist Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing two teenagers in a drunk driving accident.
- 1991 - Death of John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908).
- 1992 - Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands.
- 1993 - 100,000 Europeans demonstrate against fascism and racism.
- 1993 - 67th Australian Open Women's Tennis: Monica Seles beat Graf (4-6, 6-3, 6-2).
- 1993 - Taikichiro Mori, Japanese real estate developer, dies at age 88.
- 1994 - 68th Australian Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (6-0, 6-2).
- 1994 - 82nd Australian Open Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (7-6, 6-4, 6-4).
- 1994 - Bahjat Talhouni, Prime Minister of Jordan (1960-62, 1964-65, 1967-69, 1969-70), dies.
- 1994 - Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
- 1994 - Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76).
- 1994 - Jan L N Schaefer, Dutch undersecretary of Housing (PvdA), dies at age 53.
- 1994 - Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets.
- 1994 - Death of Pierre Boulle, French author (Executioner) (born 1912).
- 1994 - In American football's Super Bowl XXVIII, the Dallas Cowboys hand the Buffalo Bills their fourth consecutive Super Bowl loss, 30-13. Most Valuable Player: Emmitt Smith, Running Back for the Dallas Cowboys.
- 1995 - 22nd American Music Awards: Boyz II Men and Ace of Base win.
- 1995 - Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air.
- 1995 - Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed, 296 injured.
- 1995 - George H Poyser, English soccer player (Manchester City), dies at age 84.
- 1995 - Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird)/television presenter, dies at age 70 (born 1925).
- 1995 - Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of American TV's The Tonight Show.
- 1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
- 1996 - Guy Doleman, actor (Deadly Bees, Idol, Thunderball), dies at age 72.
- 1996 - Irish National Liberation Army leader Gino Gallagher is killed in an internal feud, while in line for his unemployment benefits.
- 1998 - All-Star Florida Marlins' catcher Darren Daulton retires.
- 1998 - Ricky Sanderson, who stabbed a 16-year old girl in North Carolina, executed at age 38.
- 2000 - The Saint Louis Rams win the NFL Championship for the first time since 1951, defeating the Tennessee Titans 23-16 in Super Bowl XXXIV at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 2000 - Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
- 2003 - The leaders of Britain, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania and the Spain release a statement, The Letter of the Eight, demonstrating support for the United States' plans to invade Iraq.
- 2005 - Birth of Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II.
- 2005 - The first free Parliamentary elections in Iraq since 1958 take place.
- 2005 - A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes in Iraq, killing ten British servicemen.
- 2006 - Death of Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Junior. (born 1927).
- 2006 - The Chicago Cubs and Jerry Hairston Junior agree to a one-year, $2.3 million deal.
- 2007 - In Turkey, a meteorite flashes across the sky and lands in Yesilkent.
- 2007 - Death of Sidney Sheldon at age 89 of complications from pneumonia; author/producer (Patty Duke Show TV show, I Dream of Jeannie, Hart to Hart, Master of the Game, If Tomorrow Comes, Bloodline, The Other Side of Midnight, Windmills of the Gods).
- 2007 - Microsoft releases the Windows Vista operating system for personal computers.
- 2007 - The New York Yankees agree to help establish baseball academies in China.
- 2009 - Moderate Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed is elected Somalia's new president by a secret ballot of members of parliament.
- 2009 - Ingemar Johansson, heavyweight champion (silver medal 1952 Olympics, heavyweight champ 1959, Associated Press athlete of the year, Sports Illustrated sportsman of the year), dies in Sweden at age 76 from complications of pneumonia.
- 2009 - Death of Teddy Mayer, McLaren Formula 1 boss, at age 73 of complications from Parkinson's Disease, in London, England.
- 2010 - Serena Williams wins her fifth Australian Open tennis championship defeating Justine Henin 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 in Melbourne.
- 2010 - American twins Bob and Mike Bryan win their fourth Australian Open men's doubles tennis title, beating Canada's Daniel Nestor and Serbian Nenad Zimonjic 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3.
- 2020 - The World Health Organization issues its highest level of alert regarding the coronavirus: that it is a "public health emergency of international concern".
- 2022 - General election of Portugal parliament. Socialist Party wins all seats.
- 2022 - Death of Chelsie Kryst at age 30 of suicide in New York City, New York USA; model (Miss USA 2019), lawyer, correspondent (Extra TV show).
- 2023 - The Jonas Brothers receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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