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 30th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 336 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 17, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,706,572,800 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 11 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 4,057 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 30 Historical Events
- 1648 –Eighty Years’ War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
- 1790 –The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
- 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.
- 1902 –The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
- 1911 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 1911 –The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
- 1911 –The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
- 1925 –The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
- 1975 –The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
- 1982 –Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called “Elk Cloner”.
Who were born on January 30?
- 1873 –Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French painter (d. 1939)
- 1919 –Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
- 1930 –Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
- 1941 –Dick Cheney, American politician, 7th White House Chief of Staff, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming, 17th United States Secretary of Defense and 46th Vice President of the United States
- 1943 –Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager
- 1947 –Steve Marriott, English musician (Humble Pie, The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
- 1968 –Prince Felipe of Spain
- 1971 –Darren Boyd, British actor
- 1980 –Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor
- 1981 –Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver
Who died on January 30?
- 1030 –William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
- 1384 –Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
- 1574 –Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
- 1730 –Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
- 1869 –William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
- 1948 –Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Father of Nation, India (b. 1869)
- 1991 –John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
- 1995 –Gerald Durrell, British naturalist and television presenter (b. 1925)
- 2008 –Jeremy Beadle, British television host (b. 1948)
- 2011 –John Barry, English film score composer (b. 1933)
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