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)