more events on January 30
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1980
The first-ever Chinese Olympic team arrives in New York for the Winter Games at Lake Placid.
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1976
The U.S. Supreme Court bans spending limits in campaigns, equating funds with freedom of speech.
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1972
British troops shoot dead 14 Irish civilians in Derry, Ireland. The day is forever remembered in Ireland as ‘Bloody Sunday.’
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1964
The Ranger spacecraft, equipped with six TV cameras, is launched to the moon from Cape Canaveral.
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1953
President Dwight Eisenhower announces that he will pull the Seventh Fleet out of Formosa to permit the Nationalists to attack Communist China.
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1949
In India, 100,000 people pray at the site of Gandhi’s assassination on the first anniversary of his death.
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1945
The Allies launch a drive on the Siegfried line in Germany.
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1943
Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus surrenders himself and his staff to Red Army troops in Stalingrad.
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1936
Governor Harold Hoffman orders a new inquiry into the Lindbergh kidnapping.
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1933
Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor by President Paul Hindenburg.
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1931
The United States awards civil government to the Virgin Islands.
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1912
Barbara Tuchman, U.S. historian (The Guns of August).
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The British House of Lords opposes the House of Commons by rejecting home rule for Ireland.
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1901
Women Prohibitionists smash 12 saloons in Kansas.
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1885
John Henry Towers, American naval aviation pioneer.
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1882
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States.
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1862
The USS Monitor is launched at Greenpoint, Long Island.
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1844
Richard Theodore Greener becomes the first African American to graduate from Harvard University.
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1649
Charles I of England is beheaded at Whitehall by the executioner Richard Brandon.