Friday, January 30, 2015

History for January 30

History for January 30 - On-This-Day.com:
Anton Checkhov 1860, Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S.) 1882, Gene Hackman 1931 


Dick Cheney 1941, Joe Terranova (Danny and the Juniors) 1941, Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane) 1942 


1847 - The town of Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco. 


1862 - The U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", was launched. 


1894 - C.B. King received a patent for the pneumatic hammer. 


1933 - Adolf Hitler was named the German Chancellor. 


1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist. 


1962 - Two members of the "Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, MI


1979 - The civilian government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to return. He had been living in exile in France. 

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