January 30......

January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 335 (336 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 435 - Rome recognized the Vandal territories in Northwest Africa as "federati," in an effort to stave off their invasion of Italy. (The invasion was successfully postponed for 20 years.)

● 1077 - Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV

● 1349 - Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred

● 1349 - Günther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king

● 1467 - Battle at Velke Kostolany Hung king Mátyás Corvinus beats Bratríci

● 1487 - Bell chimes invented

● 1522 - Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland

● 1544 - Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland

● 1592 - Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII

● 1647 - Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400,

● 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.

● 1649 - Charles I of England beheaded by Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads, Whitehall, as bourgeoisie take power in its own name and for its own interests -- overthrow of the monarchy and establishment of The (not-so) Commonwealth.

● 1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is formally executed - after having been dead for two years.

● 1667 - Treaty of Andrussovo Russia & Poland sign peace treaty

● 1713 - England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty

● 1750 - In Colonial America, Rev. Jonathan Mayhew of Boston delivered a sermon entitled, "Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission." The sermon attacked both the divine right of kings and ecclesiastical absolutism.

● 1774 - Captain Cook reaches 71º 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record)

● 1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland

● 1788 - Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'Alas for the rich! They are so soon offended.'

● 1789 - Rep. Matthew Lyon of Vermont spat in the face of Rep. Roger Griswold of Connecticut during a violent argument on the floor of the House -- the first brawl but far from the last in the U.S. House of Representatives.

● 1790 - The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne, by Mr Greathead, the inventor.

● 1797 - Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks

● 1800 - US population 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)

● 1804 - Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River

● 1806 - Prussia takes possession of Hanover

● 1806 - The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, was open.

● 1815 - U.S. Library of Congress re-established after its destruction during the War of 1812, with the acquisition of Thomas Jefferson's 6,457-volume personal library.

● 1820 - Edward Bransfield lands on the Antarctic mainland.

● 1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales was opened. The bridge was not the first suspension bridge, but was so much larger than anything previously built that it is considered the world's first modern suspension bridge.

● 1835 - A mentally ill man named Richard Lawrence attempts to assassinate President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol -- the first recorded assassination attempt against a President. Both of Lawrence's pistols misfire, and Jackson proceeds to beat his would-be assassin with his cane.

● 1838 - Osceola, Seminole war chief, dies under questionable circumstances while imprisoned at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina.

● 1839 - Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'God feeds the wild flowers on the lonely mountain side without the help of man.... So God can feed his own planted ones without the help of man, by the sweetly falling dew of his Spirit.'
● 1841 - A fire destroys two-thirds of the then villa (now city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

● 1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.

● 1854 - 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast

● 1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.

● 1867 - The American branch of the Evangelical Alliance was organized at the Bible House in New York City, with William E. Dodge elected president.

● 1871 - Birth of Stoyanov Parachkef (1871-1941), Giurgiu. Significant figure of Rumanian and Bulgarian anarchism. While studying medicine in Switzerland, he aligned with Kropotkin, Recluse, etc., and founded the first libertarian group in Romania.

● 1877 - Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces

● 1879 - French President MacMahon resigns

● 1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt , the 32nd president of the United States , was born in Hyde Park, N.Y.

● 1889 - John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope

● 1889 - Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead with his 17-year-old mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera shot in his hunting lodge at Mayerling, near Vienna.

● 1892 - Captain Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out

● 1894 - Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit

● 1894 - US flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Admiral Benham

● 1895 - SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed

● 1900 - United Kingdom forces fighting Boers in South Africa ask for reinforcements.

● 1909 - Birth of radical organizer Saul Alinsky, Chicago, Illinois.

● 1910 - Work began on the first board-track automobile speedway. The track was built in Playa del Ray, CA.

● 1911 - The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.

● 1911 - The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.

● 1913 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill.

● 1915 - German submarine attack on Le Havre

● 1920 - Labor Party of Oregon formed at convention in Salem.

● 1921 - French rapist-murderer Henri-Désiré Landru sentenced to death

● 1922 - World Law Day, 1st celebrated

● 1925 - Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.

● 1927 - Left wins national election in Thüringen

● 1928 - 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US

● 1930 - the world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR

● 1933 - Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler assumes office, named Chancellor of Germany. Bad things follow.

● 1934 - Hitler proclamation on German unified states

● 1935 - Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"

● 1937 - 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death

● 1939 - Hitler calls for the extermination of Jews

● 1939 - Heavy after shocks destroy some of Chile

● 1940 - Birth of Denis Langlois, Etrechy, France. Lawyer, anarchist, and pacifist writer who does prison time for his beliefs. From 1967 to 1971, legal adviser to the "League of Humans Rights." Party to many political lawsuits in Africa and Greece. During the Gulf War he organized, with other intellectuals, antiwar demonstrations. A supporter of ethnic minority militants in France, particularly Basques and Bretons.

● 1941 - Australian troops conquer Derna Libya

● 1942 - Japanese troops land on Ambon

● 1943 - Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. U.S. cruiser Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedo bombers.

● 1943 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: German Gestapo organizes mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp were ordered to undress and were shot with machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7.000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv.

● 1943 - 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin

● 1943 - German assault on French in Tunisia

● 1943 - German under officers shot down in Haarlem Netherlands

● 1943 - Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to General - field marshal

● 1943 - Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing

● 1944 - United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands.

● 1945 - The German ship M/S Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000 people.

● 1945 - William Busch, pacifist musician, dies, England.

● 1946 - 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime

● 1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, is assassinated in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

● 1951 - Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio

● 1952 - Korea truce talks hit stalemate; Truce talks aimed at ending fighting in the Korean War are deadlocked.

● 1952 - Lehmer verifies 2^521-1 & 2^607-1 (183 ciphers) Mersenne-prime #

● 1954 - Belgium ends trade agreement with USSR

● 1954 - Italy's Fanfani government resigns

● 1956 - As Martin Luther King, Jr. stands at the pulpit, leading a mass meeting during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, his home is bombed. By chance, King's wife & 10-week-old baby escape unharmed. Later in the evening, a thousand angry African Americans assemble on King's lawn. When King appears on his devastated front porch, he'll tell them (quote) - "If you have weapons, take them home....We cannot solve this problem through retaliatory violence....We must love our white brothers, no matter what they do to us." King's speech lifts the nonviolent protest movement to new levels of effectiveness.

● 1957 - US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"

● 1958 - The first two-way moving sidewalk was put in service at Love Field in Dallas, TX. The length of the walkway through the airport was 1,435 feet.

● 1958 - House of Lords passes bill allowing women in

● 1960 - CIA okays Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)

● 1960 - Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands

● 1961 - JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps

● 1962 - UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)

● 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1962 - Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.

● 1964 - South Vietnam - Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam. New military junta takes over. Part of U.S. plan to save democracy.

● 1964 - The U.S. launched Ranger 6. The unmanned spacecraft carried television cameras and was intentionally crash-landed on the moon. The cameras did not return any pictures to Earth.

● 1965 - Last farewell to Churchill; Thousands of people pay their last respects to Britain's greatest wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill who is buried today after a full state funeral.

● 1966 - -19ºF (-28ºC), Corinth MS (state record)

● 1966 - -27ºF (-33ºC), New Market AL (state record)

● 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks in South Vietnam. {I've wondered why there is an attempt to make this sound unethical; Letting an enemy know ahead time of an attack seems like a good way to lose or get killed.}

● 1969 - Howard University Medical School frosh boycott anatomy courses until the February ouster of the department chairman.

● 1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.

● 1969 - US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere

● 1970 - For the second time in six months, rioting erupts during an anti-war protest in East Los Angeles.

● 1972 - Bloody Sunday: United Kingdom British Paratroopers kill fourteen Roman Catholic civil rights /anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.

● 1972 - Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.

● 1973 - James McCord and G. Gordon Liddy of Nixon's re-election committee found guilty of Watergate burglary and wiretap attempt.

● 1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR

● 1975 - First faroese stamp issued.

● 1976 - William E Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA

● 1976 - George Bush the first becomes 11th director of the CIA (until 1977), four years before his first run for the Presidency and subsequent election as Reagan's VP. How the American voter could ever trust a CIA operative is still a mystery.

● 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.

● 1979 - Rhodesia agrees to new constitution

● 1979 - Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander of Flight 820, disappears over the ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.

● 1981 - Endangered Species List de-emphasized "to concentrate on recovery rather than reporting new species."

● 1983 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins 27-17 in Super Bowl XVII.

● 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.

● 1989 - Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter

● 1989 - Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident

● 1989 - 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor

● 1991 - The first major ground battle of the Gulf War was fought at the frontier port of Khafji in Saudi Arabia; 11 U.S. Marines were killed, seven of them by friendly fire.

● 1992 - Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands

● 1993 - 100,000 Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism

● 1994 - Péter Lékó becomes the youngest grand master in chess.

● 1994 - Nirvana's final recording session takes place at Robert Lang Studios, with the song "You Know You're Right" being completed. It would become a #1 hit eight years later.

● 1995 - The U.N. Security Council authorized the deployment of a 6,000-member U.N. peace-keeping contingent to assume security responsibilities in Haiti from U.S. forces. {Of course is only after the US that the democratically elected President will not be able to return to power.}

● 1995 - Researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health announced that clinical trials had demonstrated the effectiveness of the first preventative treatment for sickle cell anaemia.

● 1995 - Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air

● 1995 - Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured

● 1996 - Suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed while in line for his unemployment benefit.

● 1996 - NBA superstar Magic Johnson plays the first game of his return to the Los Angeles Lakers. Magic retired in 1991 after contracting HIV.

● 1997 - Minuteman III launches

● 1997 - A New Jersey judge ruled that the unborn child of a female prisoner must have legal representation. He denied the prisoner bail reduction to enable her to leave the jail and obtain an abortion.

● 2000 - Off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.

● 2002 - Slobodan Milosevic accused the U.N. war crimes tribunal of an "evil and hostile attack" against him. Milosevic was defending his actions during the Balkan wars.

● 2002 - Japan's last coal mine was closed. The closures were due to high production costs and cheap imports.

● 2002 - In Los Angeles, 15 students and 3 adults were injured when they were hit by a car.

● 2003 - Richard Reid, a British citizen and al-Qaida follower, was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Boston for trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes.

● 2003 - Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.

● 2005 - A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules is shot down over Iraq

● 2005 - Iraqis voted in their country's first {what they called} free election in a half-century.

● 2006 - Exxon Mobil posted record profits for any U.S. company: $10.71 billion for the fourth quarter of 2005 and $36.13 billion for the year.

BIRTHS

● 58 BC - Livia Drusilla, Political wife of Emperor Augustus (d. 29 AD)

● 133 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)

● 1505 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (d. 1585)

● 1563 - Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)

● 1615 - Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler

● 1661 - Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)

● 1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)

● 1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773)

● 1720 - Bernardo Bellotto, Italian "Vedute" painter (d. 1780)

● 1720 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)

● 1754 - John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)

● 1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)

● 1805 - Philip Henry Stanhope, English politician/historian (d. 1875)

● 1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)

● 1839 - Samuel Armstrong, American founder of Hampton Institute (d. 1893)

● 1841 - Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899)

● 1859 - Edward Martyn, Irish dramatist (d. 1923)

● 1859 - Tony Mullane, Major League Baseball player (d. 1944)

● 1861 - Charles Martin Loeffler, German-born composer (d. 1935)

● 1862 - Walter Damrosch, Prussian-born American conductor (d. 1950)

● 1878 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)

● 1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd. President of the United States (d. 1945)

● 1889 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937)

● 1894 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)

● 1899 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1972)

● 1901 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)

● 1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (d. 1983)

● 1910 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)

● 1911 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989)

● 1912 - Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor

● 1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)

● 1914 - John Ireland, Canadian actor (d. 1992)

● 1915 - Joachim Peiper, German military leader (d. 1976)

● 1915 - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)

● 1920 - Delbert Mann, American director

● 1920 - Carwood Lipton, WWII veteran

● 1922 - Dick Martin, American comedian (''Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In'')

● 1924 - Lloyd Alexander, American writer

● 1925 - Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist

● 1925 - Dorothy Malone, American actress

● 1927 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)

● 1928 - Hal Prince, American stage producer and director

● 1930 - Samuel J. Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)

● 1930 - Gene Hackman, American actor

● 1930 - Magnus Malan, South African politician

● 1931 - Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author

● 1931 - Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author

● 1932 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician

● 1933 - Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (d. 2006)

● 1934 - Tammy Grimes, Actress

● 1935 - Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (d. 1984)

● 1936 - Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)

● 1937 - Jeanne Pruett, Country singer

● 1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress

● 1937 - Boris Spassky, Russian chess player

● 1938 - Norma Jean, Country singer

● 1938 - Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan

● 1941 - Gregory Benford, American author and scientist

● 1941 - Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States

● 1941 - Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer

● 1943 - Marty Balin, American musician (Jefferson Airplane/Starship)

● 1945 - Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)

● 1947 - Les Barker, English poet

● 1947 - Steve Marriott, English musician (The Small Faces) (d. 1991)

● 1948 - Nick Broomfield, British film- and documentary-maker

● 1949 - William King, R&B musician (The Commodores)

● 1949 - Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate

● 1951 - Phil Collins, English musician

● 1951 - Charles S. Dutton, American actor

● 1952 - Doug Falconer professional football player

● 1955 - John Baldacci, Governor of Maine

● 1955 - Judith Tarr, American author

● 1956 - Jeremy Gittins, British actor

● 1957 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)

● 1958 - Brett Butler, Actress-comedian (''Grace Under Fire'')

● 1959 - Jody Watley, American singer

● 1962 - King Abdullah II of Jordan

● 1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau, convicted statutory rapist

● 1965 - Julie McCullough, American Playboy model and actress

● 1968 - Prince Felipe of Spain

● 1969 - Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV show star

● 1971 - Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player

● 1972 - Tammy Cochran, Singer

● 1972 - Lupillo Rivera, Mexican singer

● 1973 - Jalen Rose, American basketball player

● 1974 - Jemima Khan, British socialite

● 1974 - Olivia Colman, British actress

● 1974 - Christian Bale, British actor

● 1975 - Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer Puffy Amiyumi

● 1975 - Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer

● 1976 - Andy Milonakis, American comedian

● 1978 - John Patterson, Baseball player

● 1980 - Wilmer Valderrama, American actor ("That 70's Show")

● 1981 - Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer

● 1981 - Peter Crouch, English footballer

● 1981 - Josh Kelley, American musician

● 1984 - Jeremy Hermida, baseball player

● 1987 - Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler

● 1988 - Rob Pinkston, American actor

● 1989 - Khleo Thomas, African-American actor and rapper

● 1990 - Jake Thomas, American actor (''Lizzie McGuire'')

● 1992 - Matthew Werkmeister, Australian actor

DEATHS

● 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 Kōmei 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, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1867)

● 1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter (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)

● 1958 - Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b.1888)

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

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

● 1969 - Georges Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel Prize Laureate (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 broadcaster (b. 1909)

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

● 2001 - Joseph Ransohoff, the father of modern neurosurgery (b. 1915)

● 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)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Aldegonde
● St. Aldegunais
● St. Aleaunie
● St. Alexander
● St. Armentarius
● St. Barsimaeus
● St. Bathildis
● St. Felician
● St. Felix IV, Pope (526-30)
● St. Hippolytus
● St. Hyacinth
● St. Martina
● St. Matthias
● St. Mutien-Marie Wiaux
● St. Savina, martyred under Emperor Diocletian
● St. Tudy

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 18 (Civil Date: January 30)
● St. Athanasius the Great, and St. Cyril, Archbishops of Alexandria
● St. Marcian of Cyrrhus in Syria, monk.
● Martyr Xenia.
● St. Maximus, ruler of Serbia, metropolitan.
● St. Athanasius, abbot of Syandemsk.
● St. Silvanus of Palestine, monk.
● St. Athanasius of Novolotsk, monk.
● St. Leobardus of Marmoutier (Gaul).

● Anglican:
● King Charles the Martyr

● Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church:
● Feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs; This Feast honors the three great Fathers of the Eastern Church
● St. Basil the Great
● St. Gregory the Theologian
● St. John Chrysostom

● Martyr Day, India - India

● England : Women Peerage Day (1958)

● Kentucky, Virgin Islands : Franklin D Roosevelt Day

● Note: This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Australia : Australia Day (1788 - 1993) - ( Monday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Permanent Backlink to Post