What happened on January 30 ?

1030 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)

1181 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)

1384 - Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)

1574 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)

1606 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)

1649 - King Charles I of England (executed) (b. 1600)

1836 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)

1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)

1867 - Emperor Komei of Japan (b. 1831)

1869 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)

1889 - Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria (b. 1858)

1926 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)

1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1867)

1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian politician (b. 1869)

1948 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)

1951 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875)

1958 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)

1962 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)

1963 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)

1969 - Georges Pire, Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)

1980 - Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)

1982 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)

1991 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)

1991 - John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)

1994 - Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)

1995 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)

1999 - Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)

1999 - Ed Herlihy, American writer (b. 1909)

2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)

2001 - Joseph Ransohoff, The father of modern neurosurgery (b. 1916)

2005 - Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (b. 1971)

2005 - Wes Wehmiller, American musician (b. 1971)

2006 - Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)

Martyr Day, India - India

St. Mutien-Marie Wiaux (+1917)

St. Hippolytus

St. Hyacinth

St. Aldegonde

St. Martina

St. Savina, martyred under Emperor Diocletian

King Charles the Martyr (Anglicanism)

On this day in Canada

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