What are the important events that happened on January 30? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

January 30: Facts & Myths About This Day

January 30 is the 30^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 335 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 17, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,738,195,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘triacontagon’ day.

Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 383 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,423 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

January 30 Historical Events

• 1667 –
  The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
• 1806 –
  The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
• 1835 –
  In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
• 1841 –
  A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• 1911 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
• 1956 –
  American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• 1979 –
  A Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
• 1982 –
  Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called “Elk Cloner”.
• 1989 –
  The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
• 1994 –
  Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.

Who were born on January 30?

• 1859 –
  Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
• 1873 –
  Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French painter (d. 1939)
• 1901 –
  Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
• 1920 –
  Delbert Mann, American film director (d. 2007)
• 1938 –
  Islam Karimov, Uzbekistani politician
• 1951 –
  Phil Collins, English musician
• 1971 –
  Darren Boyd, British actor
• 1978 –
  Carmen Küng, Swiss curler
• 1988 –
  Rob Pinkston, American actor
• 1990 –
  Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress and singer

Who died on January 30?

• 1181 –
  Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
• 1649 –
  King Charles I of England (b. 1600)
• 1836 –
  Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
• 1948 –
  Arthur Coningham, New Zealand air commander (b. 1895)
• 1958 –
  Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b. 1888)
• 1962 –
  Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
• 1994 –
  Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
• 2001 –
  Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
• 2005 –
  Martyn Bennett, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
• 2008 –
  Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)