TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JAN 30
1487 Bell chimes invented
1647 Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400,
1649 Charles I of England is beheaded at Whitehall by the executioner Richard Brandon
1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years
1790 The first purpose-built lifeboat was launched on the River Tyne.
1798 The first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives took place. Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fought on the House floor.
1815 Burned US Library of Congress re-established with Thomas Jefferson’s 6,500 volumes
1844 Richard Theodore Greener becomes the first African American to graduate from Harvard University.
1901 Women Prohibitionists smash 12 saloons in Kansas.
1931 The United States awards civil government to the Virgin Islands
1933 President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who forms a government with Franz von Papen
1948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse
1953 President Dwight Eisenhower announces that he will pull the Seventh Fleet out of Formosa to permit the Nationalists to attack Communist China.
1972 British troops shoot dead 14 Irish civilians in Derry, Ireland. The day is forever remembered in Ireland as ‘Bloody Sunday.’
1973 KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY)
1976 The U.S. Supreme Court bans spending limits in campaigns, equating funds with freedom of speech.
1979 The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return.
1989 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured
1996 Gino Gallagher, the reputed leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, was shot and killed as he queued for his unemployment benefit.
2002 Japan’s last coal mine was closed. The closures were due to high production costs and cheap imports.
2005 In Iraq, the first free Parliamentary elections since 1958 took place
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