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Events on January 30

• 1018 In the Peace of Bautzen at Ortenburg in Bautzen, the Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich II. and the Polish duke and later king of Poland Bolesław Chrobry negotiate a settlement of their military conflicts.
• 1649 With the execution of English King Charles I. before the Banqueting House in London on the order of Parliament under Oliver Cromwell, the English Civil War ends.
• 1873 The novel Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in 80 Days) by Jules Verne is published.
• 1934 With the law on the reconstruction of the Reich, the sovereignty of the German states is abolished in the course of Gleichschaltung. They are directly subordinated to the Reich government.
• 1945 On the 50th birthday of its namesake, the Wilhelm Gustloff is sunk by the Soviet submarine S-13. The sinking of the KdF ship used as a refugee transport claims over 9,000 lives and is considered the largest maritime disaster in history.
• 1948 The radical Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse assassinates Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi.
• 1948 Swiss President Enrico Celio opens the V Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz. German and Japanese athletes are denied participation.
• 1969 The Beatles perform their last live concert on the roof of Apple Studios on Savile Row in London. Due to an impending traffic chaos, the concert is aborted after 42 minutes.
• 1972 On the so-called Bloody Sunday, at least 14 pro-Irish demonstrators are shot by British paratroopers in the Northern Irish city of Derry. The Northern Ireland conflict escalates following the massacre.
• 2007 Microsoft releases the operating system Windows Vista.
• 2020 WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declares the spreading SARS-CoV-2 infections an international public health emergency.
• 2025 Angela Merkel publicly criticizes Friedrich Merz for his conduct in the German Bundestag the day before, when a CDU/CSU motion first gained a majority due to the votes of the AfD faction.

Born on January 30

• 1882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, US politician
• 1894 Boris III., King of Bulgaria
• 1901 Rudolf Caracciola, German racing driver
• 1910 Carola Höhn, German stage and film actress
• 1930 Gene Hackman, US actor
• 1930 Alfred Herrhausen, German banker and murder victim
• 1942 Heidi Brühl, German actress and singer
• 1951 Phil Collins, British singer, drummer, songwriter and actor
• 1962 Abdullah II. bin al-Hussein, Jordanian king
• 1980 Wilmer Valderrama, US actor, voice actor and producer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „30. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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