What events happened on January 30?

What events happened on January 30?

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇺🇸 USA – Day to plan a vacation.
🇺🇸 USA – Fred Korematsu Day.
🇮🇳 India – Independence Day.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan – Sade Festival.
🇧🇷 Brazil – Saudade Day.
🇮🇩 Indonesia – Indonesian Primate Day.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Customs Officers Day.

👉 EVENTS:

– 1703 – According to legend, forty-seven samurai in Edo – former vassals of the Ako family avenged their master.
– 1790 – The first special lifeboat was tested on the Tyne River in Northern England.
– 1801 – Paul I issued a manifesto on the accession of Georgia (Kartli-Kakheti) to Russia.
– 1826 – The Menai Bridge is built in England.
– 1894 – Charles King patents his own jackhammer.
– 1915 – Germany uses submarines for the first time in its attack on the French port of Le Havre.
– 1924 – Mosfilm is founded.
– 1930 – Pavel Molchanov launches a radiosonde in Pavlovsk.
– 1933 – Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany.
– 1934 – The Osoaviakhim-1 stratospheric balloon becomes the first in the world to reach an altitude of 22 km. It crashes during landing, killing all three crew members.
– 1935 – Charles Richter invents a special scale for measuring earthquake magnitude.
– 1943 – The German 6th Army surrendered at Stalingrad, marking a turning point in the Great Patriotic War.
– 1945 – The Soviet submarine C-13 sank the German liner Wilhelm Gustloff.
– 1969 – The Beatles gave their last concert in London.
– 1972 – Bloody Sunday in Derry.
– 1992 – The Republic of Uzbekistan was admitted to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
– 1996 – Comet C/1996 B2 was discovered.
– 2007 – Windows Vista was released.
– 2009 – The Russian spacecraft Koronas-Foton was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome using a Cyclone-3 carrier rocket.
– 2020 – The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 (nCoV) epidemic a public health emergency of international concern.