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Jan 16, 2009
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Friday, January 30, 2009

This will be 30th day of the year and 335 days will remain in the year.


January 30 Birthdays

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882–1945, American President.

Barbara Tuchman
historian (1912)

Douglas Engelbart
inventor (1925)

Gene Hackman
actor (1930)

Richard Brautigan
writer (1935)

Vanessa Redgrave
actress (1937)

Richard Cheney
vice president of the United States (1941)

Michael Dorris
American Writer (1945)

Christian Bale
actor (1974)

January 30 in History

1649

King Charles I of England was beheaded.

1933

Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany.

1948

Gandhi was assassinated.

1968

North Vietnamese forces launched attacks against the South Vietnamese, beginning the Tet offensive.

1972

British troops opened fire on civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland, sparking the "Bloody Sunday" massacre.

1979

The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.

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