Unforgettable Moments: January 30th Throughout History

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1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years
1774 Captain James Cook reaches a record 71°10' south, 1820km from the South Pole
1797 US Congress refuses to accept 1st petition from African American
1800 US population: 5,308,483; African American population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
1815 Burned US Library of Congress re-established with Thomas Jefferson's 6,500 volumes
1835 Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. in 1st attempted assassination of a US President. A furious 67-year-old Jackson confronted his attacker, clubbing Lawrence several times with his walking cane. During the scuffle, Lawrence managed to pull out a second loaded pistol and pulled the trigger, but it also misfired. Jackson’s aides then wrestled Lawrence away from the president, leaving Jackson unharmed but angry and, as it turned out, paranoid.
1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
1854 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast
1862 USS Monitor, the US Navy's 1st ironclad warship launched
1902 Britain and Japan sign a treaty after months of negotiating which commits each country to supporting an independent China and Korea, although it acknowledges Japan's 'special interest' in Korea
1933 "Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio
1933 President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who forms a government with Franz von Papen
1946 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
1948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in the garden of the New Delhi home he was visiting by Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse
1956 Home of Martin Luther King Jr. is bombed
1957 US Congress accepts "Eisenhower Doctrine" - US offer of aid to an Arab countries threatened with communist aggression
1958 1st 2-way moving sidewalk goes into service in Dallas, Texas
1960 CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
1961 JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps, a $20 billion US Aid program for Latin America
1963 Ivan Sutherland submits a thesis containing his Sketchpad program, a forerunner to modern-day graphic user interfaces and computer-aided design programs
1964 Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail
1965 State funeral for Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London; at the time, the world's largest-ever state funeral
1968 Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese launch the Tet offensive against South Vietnames and US forces
1969 The Beatles perform their last live gig, a 42 minute concert on the roof of Apple Corps HQ in London, England
1972 Bloody Sunday: 27 unarmed civilians are shot (14 are killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles’
1973 Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy & McCord guilty on all counts of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping
1973 Rock band Kiss plays their 1st show at the Coventry Club in Queens, NY
1977 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched US entertainment show ever (100 million)
1978 Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing the late-night "Larry King Show" on radio, from Miami, Florida
1982 Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner”.
2013 South Korea successfully launches its rocket Naro-1 which was carrying a scientific satellite
2013 TV spy drama "The Americans" created by Joe Weisberg, starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys premieres on FX