Damn Carl,what inspired you to dig up this old thread?😀
On Jan. 30, 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist.
On Jan. 30 , 1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt , the 32nd president of the United States , was born. Following his death on April 12 , 1945, his obituary appeared in The Times.
1798 A brawl broke out in the House of Representatives in Philadelphia, as Matthew Lyon of Vermont spat in the face of Roger Griswold of Connecticut.
1883 James Ritty and John Birch received a U.S. patent for the first cash register.
1933 Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
1933 The first episode of the "Lone Ranger" was broadcast on radio station WXYZ in Detroit.
1962 Two members of the Flying Wallendas high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit.
1964 The United States launched Ranger 6, an unmanned spacecraft carrying TV cameras that was to crash-land on the moon.
1968 The Tet offensive began as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals.
1969 The Beatles performed as a group for the last time in public in a 45-minute gig on the roof of their Apple Records headquarters in London during the filming of "Let it Be."
1972 Thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday."
1979 The civilian government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to return from exile in France.
2003 Richard Reid, a British citizen and al-Qaida follower, was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Boston for trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes.
2005 Iraqis voted in their country's first free election in a half-century.
