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Notable anniversaries in history for today: January 30
- 400th: 1624 - Birth of Arnold Geulincx South Netherlands, philosopher (About Virtue).
- 250th: 1774 - Captain Cook reaches 71 degrees 10' S, 1820 km from South pole (record).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Margaret Beda Nicholson; author (No Medals for the Major).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Shirley Chisholm; American politician (Representative-Democrat-New York).
- 100th: 1924 - Bill Ponsford scores second 110 of the cricket game in Victoria win over New South Wales.
- 90th: 1934 - Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shields career age 51 years 298 days.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Tammy Grimes in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Can't Stop the Music).
- 90th: 1934 - Adolf Hitler makes proclamation on German unified states.
- 90th: 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.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of John Thornton; English chocolate factory/multi-millionaire.
- 80th: 1944 - US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands.
- 70th: 1954 - Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Alides Hidding; singer/guitarist (Time Bandits).
- 70th: 1954 - Italy's Fanfani government resigns.
- 60th: 1964 - Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at age 80.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Cheryl Akemi Toma in Pearl City, Hawaii, USA; Miss Hawaii-America (1990).
- 60th: 1964 - Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam.
- 60th: 1964 - Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail.
- 50th: 1974 - Bill Whitty, cricket player (37 wickets versus South Africa 1910-11 series), dies.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Christian Bale in Wales; actor (Empire of the Sun, Little Women).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Martina Jerant in Windsor, Ontario, Canada; basketball center (Olympics-1996).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Robert Rollins; cricket player (big-hitting Essex wicketkeeper-batsman).
- 50th: 1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk.
- 30th: 1994 - 68th Australian Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (6-0, 6-2).
- 30th: 1994 - 82nd Australian Open Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (7-6, 6-4, 6-4).
- 30th: 1994 - Bahjat Talhouni, Prime Minister of Jordan (1960-62, 1964-65, 1967-69, 1969-70), dies.
- 30th: 1994 - Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
- 30th: 1994 - Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76).
- 30th: 1994 - Jan L N Schaefer, Dutch undersecretary of Housing (PvdA), dies at age 53.
- 30th: 1994 - Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets.
- 30th: 1994 - Death of Pierre Boulle, French author (Executioner) (born 1912).
- 30th: 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.
- 15th: 2009 - Moderate Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed is elected Somalia's new president by a secret ballot of members of parliament.
- 15th: 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.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Teddy Mayer, McLaren Formula 1 boss, at age 73 of complications from Parkinson's Disease, in London, England.
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