Today is Thursday, January 30, the 30th day of 2025. There are 335 days in the year.
Today in history:
On January 30, 1948, the Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot down and killed in New Delhi by Natthuram Godse (Neh-Tooo-Rahm ‘Gahd-Say’), a Hindu extremist.
Also on this date:
In 1649 the English king Charles I was executed for high treason.
In 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.In 1945, a Soviet submarine during the Second World War torpedo the German ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea, killing more than 9,000, most of them war refugees; About 1,000 people survived.
In 1968 the TET offensive started during the war in Vietnam when the communist troops launched surprise attacks in South Vietnamese villages and towns.
In 1969 the Beatles organized an unannounced concert on top of Apple headquarters in London that would be their last public performance.
In 1972, 13 Catholic civil rights marchers were shot and killed by British soldiers in Noord -Ireland on what became known as ‘Bloody Sunday’.
In 2017, President Donald Trump dismissed acting American attorney -general Sally Yates after having publicly interrogated the constitution of his controversial ban on refugees and immigration and refused to defend it before the court.
In 2020, health officials reported the first known case in which the new coronavirus was distributed from one person to another in the United States.
Today’s birthdays:
- Actor Gene Hackman is 95.
- Actor Vanessa Redgrave is 88.
- Former American vice president Dick Cheney is 84.
- Musician Phil Collins is 74.
- Actor Charles S. Dutton (“ROC”) is 74.
- Golf hall of Famer Curtis Strange is 70.
- Actor Ann Dowd (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) is 69.
- Comedian Brett Butler (″ Grace Under Fire ”) is 67.
- Singer Jody Watley is 66.
- Chairman of the American House of Representatives Mike Johnson is 53.
- Actor Christian Bale is 51.
- Actor Olivia Colman is 51.
- Actor Wilmer Valderrama (“That ’70s Show) is 45.
- Rapper-Musician Kid Cudi is 41.