This Day In History — “Bloody Sunday” occurs

January 30

1649
King Charles I of England was beheaded.

1933
Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany.

1948
Gandhi was assassinated.

1968
North Vietnamese forces launched attacks against the South Vietnamese, beginning the Tet offensive.

1972
British troops opened fire on civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland, sparking the “Bloody Sunday” massacre.

1979
The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return.

Birthdays

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882–1945, American President.

Barbara Tuchman

historian (1912)

Douglas Engelbart

inventor (1925)

Gene Hackman

actor (1930)

Richard Brautigan

writer (1935)

Vanessa Redgrave

actress (1937)

Richard Cheney

vice president of the United States (1941)

Michael Dorris

American Writer (1945)

Christian Bale

actor (1974)

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