Historical Events and Current Affairs on January 30

1077: Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
1349: Gnther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king
1349: Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
1467: Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hung king M ty s Corvinus beats Bratr¡ci
1487: Bell chimes invented
1522: Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland
1544: Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland
1592: Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
1647: King Charles I handed over to English parliament
1647: Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for œ400,
1648: Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of Mnster, ending Tachtigjarige War
1667: Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia & Poland sign peace treaty
1713: England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
1774: Capt Cook reaches 71ø 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)
1781: Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland
1790: Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor
1797: Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks
1798: in US House of Representatives, after an argument
1798: Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct)
1800: US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
1804: Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River
1806: Prussia takes possession of Hanover
1815: Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols
1818: Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears"
1820: Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim)
1835: Richard Lawrence misfires at Pres Andrew Jackson in Washington DC
1847: Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
1853: Emperor Napoleon III marries Eug‚nie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman
1854: 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
1858: Charles Hall‚ founds Hall‚ Orchestra in Manchester
1858: William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom"
1862: US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched
1877: Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces
1879: French President MacMahon resigns
1883: England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test
1888: Harry Moses 297 not out for NSW against Victoria
1889: John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope
1889: Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76)
1892: Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test
1892: Capt Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out
1894: Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
1894: US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham
1895: C J Eady (Tas) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (v Vic)
1895: SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed
1895: Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years
1911: 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
1913: House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill
1915: German submarine attack on Le Havre
1915: No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Vic v Tas
1917: 1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
1919: France with US Army
1919: Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in
1921: French rapist-murderer Henri-D‚sir‚ Landru sentenced to death
1922: Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over NSW
1922: World Law Day, 1st celebrated
1924: Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Vic win over NSW
1925: Turkish govt throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople
1927: Left wins national election in Thringen
1928: 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US
1928: Bradman scores 134 not out (225 mins, 13 fours) NSW v Vic
1928: Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," premieres in NYC
1930: Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya," premieres in Leningrad
1931: Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater
1932: Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval
1933: "Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio
1933: Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms govt with Von Papen
1933: Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match
1934: 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC
1934: Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 yrs 298 days
1934: Hitler proclamation on German unified states
1935: Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"
1936: New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname
1936: They pick "The Bees" it doesn't catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season
1936: Victoria need 442 to win against NSW, but lose, all out for 415
1937: 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death
1939: Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile
1939: Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews
1940: Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London
1940: Hassett's second 122 of the game for Vic can't stop a NSW win
1941: Australian troops conquer Derna Libya
1942: Japanese troops land on Ambon
1943: 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin
1943: German assault on French in Tunisia
1943: German under officers shot down in Haarlem Neth
1943: Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to general-fieldmarshal
1943: Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing
1943: USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean
1944: US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands
1945: "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die
1945: German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed, 4,800 killed
1946: 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
1950: "Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV
1950: Pres Truman orders development of H-bomb [or 0131?]
1951: Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
1952: Lehmer verifies: 2^521-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime #
1952: Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres
1954: Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR
1954: Italy's Fanfani govt resigns
1956: Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
1956: KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956: KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956: Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed
1957: US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"
1958: 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx
1958: Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars
1958: Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello," premieres in NYC
1958: House of Lords passes bill allowing women in
1959: Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test v England, Adelaide Oval
1959: Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh," premieres
1960: CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
1960: Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands
1960: Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI v England
1961: Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC
1961: JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corp
1961: KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961: Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide
1962: 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their
1962: 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit
1962: UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)
1962: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964: Military coup of Gen Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam
1964: Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail
1965: "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3
1965: State funeral of Winston Churchill
1966: #2456 Palamedes & #2592 Hunan
1966: -19øF (-28øC), Corinth, Mississippi (state record)
1966: -27øF (-33øC), New Market, Alabama (state record)
1966: Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 11th string quartet
1968: Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey"
1968: Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on US embassy in Saigon
1969: Beatles perform their last gig together, a free concert
1969: US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere
1971: "Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 19 performances
1971: Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, v England
1971: UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak
1972: Bloody Sunday: Brit soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die
1972: Pakistan withdraws from Commonwealth
1973: 1st Kiss concert (Queens NY)
1973: Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts
1973: KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY)
1974: USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976: 1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg
1976: George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)
1976: William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA
1977: 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever
1977: Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW v Qld)
1977: Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame
1978: Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1978: Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio
1979: Rhodesia agrees to new constitution
1980: Edward Albee's "Lady from Dubuque," premieres in NYC
1981: 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins
1982: #2955 Newburn, #3192 A'Hearn, #4026 Beet & #7387
1983: Superbowl MVP: John Riggins, Washington, RB
1983: Superbowl XVII: Wash Red Skins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena
1988: Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS v N Tvl)
1989: 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis & George Michael wins
1989: 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
1989: Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
1989: killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident
1989: Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for
1990: #5848 Harutoriko
1992: Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands
1993: 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism
1993: 67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (46 63 62)
1994: 68th Australian Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (60 62)
1994: 82nd Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (76 64 64)
1994: Superbowl MVP: Emmitt Smith, Dallas, RB
1994: Superbowl XXVIII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta
1995: 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men & 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: Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"
1997: Minuteman III launches
1998: All-Star Fla Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires
1998: Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis IN on WNAP 93.1 FM
1998: Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres
2000: NFL Pro Bowl

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