January 30

30Jan2010 In : On this day
Author : FJ

January 30: Tu Bishvat (Judaism, 2010)

1649 – English Civil War: King Charles I, who was defeated in both the First and the Second Civil War, was beheaded for high treason in front of the Banqueting House in London.
1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, connecting the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, one of the world’s first modern suspension bridges, opened.
1930 – In Pavlovsk, USSR, meteorologist Pavel Molchanov launched one of the world’s first radiosondes, a device attached to weather balloons to measure various atmospheric parameters.
1945 – World War II: Allied forces liberated over 500 prisoners of war from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
1948 – Nathuram Godse fatally shot Mahatma Gandhi (pictured), political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement, at Birla House in Delhi.
1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyen Khanh overthrew General Duong Van Minh‘s military junta in South Vietnam, less than three months after Minh came to power in a bloody coup against then-President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem.

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