Historical Events on January 30.

1.   Martyrs Day (India)

2.  1649, 30th Jan: Charles I, the King of England, was beheaded.

3.  1790, 30th Jan: The first lifeboat launched into the Tyan River.

4.  1903, 30th Jan: Lord Curzon inaugurated the ‘Imperial Library’ at Metcalfe Hall, Kolkata.

5.  1933, 30th Jan: Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.

6.  1948, 30th Jan: Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathu Ram Godse.

7.  1972, 30th Jan: Pakistan withdrew its name from the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh. 

8.  1994, 30th Jan: Peter Lenko became the youngest Grandmaster in chess.

9.  1997, 30th Jan: Mahatma Gandhi’s remains were immersed in the river at Allahabad by his great-grandson Tushar Arun Gandhi. The remains were kept in the locker of State Bank of India in Cuttack for 47 years.

10.  2007, 30th Jan: Tata bought Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus Group for over $ 12 billion.

11.  2008, 30th Jan: A special court in Chennai sentenced Abdul Karim Telgi, the main accused in the famous stamp paper scam case, to 10 years imprisonment.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on January 30.

1.   1882: Franklin D. Roosevelt, an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States.

2.  1889: Jaishankar Prasad, a prominent figure in modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre.

3.  1910: Chidambaram Subramaniam, an Indian politician and Independence activist.

4.  1913: Amrita Sher-Gil, a Hungarian-Indian painter.

5.  1924: S. N. Goenka, an Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation.

6.  1929: Ramesh Deo, an Indian film and television actor who has worked in more than 285 Hindi films, 190 Marathi films, and 30 Marathi dramas with over 200 showings in his long career.

7.  1951: Prakash Javadekar, an Indian politician. 

8.  1957: Priyadarshan, an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer.

9.  1974: Christian Bale, an English actor.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on January 30.

1.   1530: Rana Sangram Singh of Mewar.

2.  1649: Charles I, the King of England.

3.  1948: Mahatma Gandhi, an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence from British rule, and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

4.  1948: Orville Wright, One of the two American aviation pioneers, Wright brothers, generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world’s first successful motor-operated airplane.

5.  1951: Ferdinand Porsche, Founder of Porsche automobile company.

6.  1968: Makhanlal Chaturvedi,  an Indian poet, writer, essayist, playwright, and journalist.

7.  2006: Coretta Scott King, an American author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr.