Today in History - Famous Events for Tomorrow

🏰 On this day in History - January 30, 2026

1998 All-Star Fla Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires

1920 Qu‚bec's Joe Malone sets NHL record of 7 goals in a game

1940 Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London

1925 Turkish govt throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople

1820 Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim)

1971 Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, v England

1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands

1954 Italy's Fanfani govt resigns

1964 Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail

1667 Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia & Poland sign peace treaty

1956 KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting

1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," premieres in NYC

1988 Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS v N Tvl)

1928 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US

1966 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:05.2)

1956 Martin Luther King Jr's home bombed

1960 CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)

1973 1st Kiss concert (Queens NY)

1998 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis IN on WNAP 93.1 FM

1976 George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977)

1853 Emperor Napoleon III marries Eug‚nie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman

1940 Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race

1945 "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die

1862 US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched

1930 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya," premieres in Leningrad

1487 Bell chimes invented

1895 C J Eady (Tas) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (v Vic)

1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured

1943 Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to general-fieldmarshal

1973 KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY)

1954 Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR

1969 Beatles perform their last gig together, a free concert

1922 World Law Day, 1st celebrated

1968 Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey"

1647 King Charles I handed over to English parliament

1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon

1980 Edward Albee's "Lady from Dubuque," premieres in NYC

1978 Addie Joss & Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1349 GЃnther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king

1915 German submarine attack on Le Havre

1877 Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces

1977 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever

1956 Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"

1933 Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms govt with Von Papen

1973 Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts

1959 Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh," premieres

1973 26th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at NY Rangers

1937 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death

1983 Superbowl XVII: Wash Red Skins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: John Riggins, Washington, RB

1993 67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (46 63 62)

1994 Superbowl XXVIII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta Superbowl MVP: Emmitt Smith, Dallas, RB

1966 -27шF (-33шC), New Market, Alabama (state record)

1989 Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore

1978 Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio

1962 UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)

1895 SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed

1957 US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"

1961 JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corp

1467 Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hung king M ty s Corvinus beats BratrЎci

1976 William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA

1919 Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army

1960 Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI v England

1774 Capt Cook reaches 71ш 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)

1944 US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands

1933 Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match

1976 1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg

1913 House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill

1961 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC

1981 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins

1950 "Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV

1997 Minuteman III launches

1960 Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands

1935 Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"

1927 Left wins national election in ThЃringen

1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1647 Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for њ400,

1798 Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct) in US House of Representatives, after an argument

1895 Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years

1932 Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval

1971 "Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 19 performances

1921 French rapist-murderer Henri-D‚sir‚ Landru sentenced to death

1879 French President MacMahon resigns

1989 Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter

1995 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men & Ace of Base win

1948 5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland

1966 -19шF (-28шC), Corinth, Mississippi (state record)

1939 Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile

1958 House of Lords passes bill allowing women in

1922 Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over NSW

1915 No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Vic v Tas

1979 Rhodesia agrees to new constitution

1883 England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test

1800 US population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)

1952 Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres

1958 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx

1964 Military coup of Gen Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam

1943 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin

1648 Spain & Netherlands sign Peace of MЃnster, ending Tachtigjarige War

1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit

1892 Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test

1924 Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Vic win over NSW

1934 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC

1951 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio

1960 US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins

1939 Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews

1933 "Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio

1961 KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting

1994 82nd Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (76 64 64)

2000 NFL Pro Bowl

1958 Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello," premieres in NYC

1958 Baseball announces players & coaches rather than fans pick all stars

1998 Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres

1934 Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 yrs 298 days

1854 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast

1977 Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame

1892 Capt Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out

1804 Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River

1952 Lehmer verifies: 2^521-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime #

1946 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime

1995 Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air

1858 William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom"

1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1961 Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide

1972 Pakistan withdraws from Commonwealth

1835 Richard Lawrence misfires at Pres Andrew Jackson in Washington DC

1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean

1972 Bloody Sunday: Brit soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die

1889 Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76)

1713 England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty

1983 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic

1934 Hitler proclamation on German unified states

1982 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners

1969 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere

1818 Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears"

1349 Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred

1995 Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"

1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill

1931 Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater

1989 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor

1950 Pres Truman orders development of H-bomb [or 0131?]

1994 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76)

1977 Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW v Qld)

1858 Charles Hall‚ founds Hall‚ Orchestra in Manchester

1522 Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland

1936 Victoria need 442 to win against NSW, but lose, all out for 415 They pick "The Bees" it doesn't catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season

1994 Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wkts

1956 KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting

1945 German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed, 4,800 killed

1815 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols

1960 US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss

1889 John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope

1965 "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3

1983 Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ

1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco

1790 Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor

1544 Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland

1959 Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test v England, Adelaide Oval

1928 Bradman scores 134 not out (225 mins, 13 fours) NSW v Vic

1943 German assault on French in Tunisia

1966 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 11th string quartet

1943 Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing

1989 Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident

1911 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba

1943 German under officers shot down in Haarlem Neth

1941 Australian troops conquer Derna Libya

1592 Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII

1994 68th Australian Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (60 62)

1971 UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak

1936 New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname

1888 Harry Moses 297 not out for NSW against Victoria

1894 US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Adm Benham

1940 Hassett's second 122 of the game for Vic can't stop a NSW win

1917 1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball)

1989 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis & George Michael wins

1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit

1781 Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland

1806 Prussia takes possession of Hanover

1993 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism

1968 Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on US embassy in Saigon

1797 Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks

1077 Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV

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