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Learn about the most intriguing events and historical facts that occurred on January 30 throughout history. The Gregorian calendar’s thirty-first day is January 30th. After the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, the American embassy in Kabul was closed; Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse; and Yerba Buena, California was renamed San Francisco.
The 30th of January falls under the sign of Aquarius. Vanessa Redgrave, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Gene Hackman all had famous birthdays. The 30th of January is also National Croissant Day. (January 30, 1911) (January 30, 1912) (January 30, 1933) (January 30, 1945) (January 30, 1948) (Died on January 30, 2021)
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Roy Eldridge, an American trumpeter who was one of the most innovative artists of the 1930s, was born in Pittsburgh. 
Barbara Tuchman, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the foremost popular historians in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, was born. 
Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. 
The sinking of the German ocean liner Wilhelm Gustloff by a Soviet submarine was the worst maritime disaster in history, with an estimated 9,000 persons killed. 
On this day in 1948, Mahatma Gandhi, India's father and internationally renowned for his theory of nonviolent protest (satyagraha) to accomplish political and social reform, was assassinated.
Sophie Xeon, Scottish musician (b. 1986).
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