Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring? (January 30, 2011 History Daybook)

Thor's Helmet (Emission Nebula, NGC 2359), photographed 1/30/07)

        Deeply enmeshed in the frozen weeds as I am currently, I felt hobbled and snowblind as yesterday turned into today, and I wondered "Who knows what tomorrow may bring"?

        Remembering that they say the person who isn't mindful of history is "condemned" to repeat it, I felt I needed to remind myself, using Wikipedia's helpful agency, that:

        "January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 335 days remaining until the end of the year (336 in leap years)";

and also about the following long listing of notable events that took place on January 30ths Past.

        I have highlighted below those facts and matters that have particular relevance and/or importance to me.  Revealing these may shed some light on my personality and character.

        I would be very interested to know by reply which, if any, of these affect you the most:

Events

• 1048 – Protestantism: The villagers around today's Baden-Baden elect their own priest in defiance of the local bishop. Later, in a move that would not be seen before the Protestant Reformation, he is also elected Pope by acclamation, just to die that same day. It is rumored that Ildebrando di Soana heard of the acclamation and used it later to get elected himself as Pope Gregory VII.
• 1648 – Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
• 1649 – King Charles I of England is beheaded.
• 1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
• 1667 – The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo.
• 1703 – The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
• 1790 – The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
• 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, is opened.
• 1820 – Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
• 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
• 1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
• 1841 – A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• 1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
• 1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
• 1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
• 1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
• 1902 – The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance was signed in London.
• 1911 – The destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) 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 – The United Kingdom's House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
• 1925 – The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
• 1930 – The world's second radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.
• 1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies.
• 1943 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago (CA-29) is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
• 1944 – World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
• 1945 – World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9,000 people.
• 1945 – World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
• 1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
• 1956 – American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• 1959 – MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, killing all 95 aboard.
• 1960 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
• 1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
• 1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyen Khanh overthrows General Duong Van Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.
• 1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
• 1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.
• 1972 – Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
• 1972 – Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 1975 – The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary was established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary. 
• 1979 – Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
• 1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
• 1989 – The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
• 1994 – Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
• 1995 – Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
• 1996 – Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
• 2000 – Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.

Births

• 133 – Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
• 1563 – Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
• 1615 – Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler; son of Pocahontas and John Rolfe (d. 1675)
• 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 – 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)
• 1816 – Nathaniel Prentice Banks, American politician, 25th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)
• 1822 – Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
• 1832 – Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
• 1841 – Félix Faure, French politician (d. 1899)
• 1859 – Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
• 1861 – Charles Martin Loeffler, German-born composer (d. 1935)
• 1873 – Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French painter (d. 1939)
• 1878 – Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
• 1882 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, American politician, 44th Governor of New York, and 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
• 1889 – Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and dramatist (d. 1937)
• 1894 – Tsar 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 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
• 1912 – Francis Schaeffer, American theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
• 1912 – Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)
• 1913 – Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener (d. 1988)
• 1914 – John Ireland, Canadian actor (d. 1992)
• 1914 – David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
• 1915 – Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976)
• 1915 – John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and motorsport journalist (d. 2008)
• 1918 – David Opatoshu, American television actor (d. 1996)
• 1919 – Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
• 1920 – Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
• 1920 – Michael Anderson, English film director
• 1920 – Delbert Mann, American film director (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Dick Martin, American comedian (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Walt Dropo, American baseball player (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
• 1925 – Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist
• 1925 – Dorothy Malone, American actress
• 1927 – Olof Palme, Swedish politician (d. 1986)
• 1927 – Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
• 1929 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and aid worker (d. 1996)
• 1930 – Sandy Amorós, Cuban baseball player (d. 1992)
• 1930 – Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
• 1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor
• 1930 – Magnus Malan, South African politician
• 1931 – John Crosbie, Canadian politician
• 1931 – Allan W. Eckert, American naturalist and author
• 1931 – Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author
• 1932 – Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
• 1933 – Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (d. 2006)
• 1935 – Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (d. 1984)
• 1936 – F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
• 1936 – Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
• 1936 – Horst Jankowski, German popular pianist (d. 1998)
• 1937 – Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (d. 2005)
• 1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
• 1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
• 1938 – Islom Karimov, Uzbekistani politician
• 1941 – Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
• 1941 – Dick Cheney, American politician, 7th White House Chief of Staff, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming, 17th United States Secretary of Defense and 46th Vice President of the United States
• 1941 – Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
• 1942 – Marty Balin, American musician
• 1943 – Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager
• 1945 – Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
• 1947 – Les Barker, English poet
• 1947 – Steve Marriott, English musician (Humble Pie, The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
• 1948 – Nick Broomfield, English documentarian
• 1948 – Paul Magee, Irish IRA figure
• 1948 – Miles Reid, English mathematician
• 1949 – Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel laureate
• 1950 – Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
• 1951 – Phil Collins, English musician
• 1951 – Charles S. Dutton, American actor
• 1951 – Bobby Stokes, English former footballer (d. 1995)
• 1952 – Doug Falconer, Canadian football player
• 1955 – John Baldacci, American politician
• 1955 – Curtis Strange, American golfer
• 1955 – Judith Tarr, American author
• 1955 – Mychal Thompson, Bahamian basketball player
• 1956 – Jeremy Gittins, English actor
• 1956 – Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver
• 1957 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
• 1958 – Brett Butler, American actress and comedian
• 1959 – Mark Eitzel, American singer and musician (American Music Club)
• 1959 – Jody Watley, American singer
• 1960 – Alex Titomirov, Russian-born American businessman
• 1961 – Dexter Scott King, son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
• 1962 – King Abdullah II of Jordan
• 1962 – Mary Kay Letourneau, American convicted statutory rapist
• 1963 – Tina Malone, English actress
• 1964 – Otis Smith, American basketball player
• 1965 – Julie McCullough, American model and actress
• 1966 – Danielle Goyette, Quebec ice hockey player
• 1967 – Jay Gordon, American musician
• 1968 – Trevor Dunn, American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs 3)
• 1968 – Prince Felipe of Spain
• 1968 – Tony Maudsley, British film actor
• 1969 – Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV actor
• 1971 – Darren Boyd, British actor
• 1971 – Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player
• 1972 – Lupillo Rivera, Mexican singer
• 1972 – Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1973 – Jalen Rose, American basketball player
• 1974 – Christian Bale, English actor
• 1974 – Olivia Colman, English actress
• 1974 – Jemima Khan, English socialite
• 1975 – Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 – Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
• 1976 – Andy Milonakis, American comedian
• 1977 – Dan Hinote, American ice hockey player
• 1977 – Deltha O'Neal, American football player
• 1977 – Tom Malchow, American swimmer
• 1978 – John Patterson, American baseball player
• 1978 – Carmen Küng, Swiss curler
• 1980 – Leilani Dowding, British model
• 1980 – Josh Kelly, American musician
• 1980 – Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
• 1980 – Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor
• 1980 – Joãozinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1981 – Jonathan Bender, American basketball player
• 1981 – Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1981 – Peter Crouch, English footballer
• 1981 – Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver
• 1982 – DeSagana Diop, Senegalese basketball player
• 1982 – Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player
• 1984 – Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player
• 1984 – Kid Cudi, American hip hop performer
• 1985 – Aaadietya Pandey, Indian astrologer
• 1985 – Trae Williams, American football player
• 1986 – Sam Duckworth, British singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Nick Evans, American baseball player
• 1987 – Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler
• 1987 – Renato Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Arda Turan, Turkish footballer
• 1988 – Rob Pinkston, American actor
• 1989 – Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
• 1990 – Jake Thomas, American actor
• 1990 – Luca Sbisa, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1990 – Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress and singer
• 2005 – Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II of Jordan

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 (b. 1600)
• 1730 – Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
• 1836 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
• 1849 – Jonathan Alder, American settler (b. 1773)
• 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 Rudolf of Austria (b. 1858)
• 1926 – Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1928 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
• 1929 – La Goulue, French dancer (b. 1866)
• 1934 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
• 1948 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian activist (b. 1869)
• 1948 – Arthur Coningham, New Zealand air commander (b. 1895)
• 1948 – Orville Wright, American aviator (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 laureate (b. 1910)
• 1980 – Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
• 1982 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
• 1984 – Luke Kelly, Irish singer (The Dubliners) (b. 1940)
• 1984 – Lee McCall, South African bank robber (b. 1950)
• 1989 – Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, Spanish pretender to the French throne (b. 1936)
• 1991 – John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)
• 1991 – John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1994 – Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist and television presenter (b. 1925)
• 1998 – Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b
• 1999 – Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1999 – Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
• 2005 – Wes Wehmiller, American musician (b. 1971)
• 2006 – Coretta Scott King, American activist; widow of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Jeremy Beadle, British television host (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)
• 2008 – Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious figure (b. 1920)
• 2009 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (b. 1932)
• 2009 – John Gordy, American football player (b. 1935)
• 2009 – H. Guy Hunt, American politician (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Aaron Ruben, American television director (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Bernard Arcand, French-Canadian anthropologist (b. 1945)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Aldegonde
  • Anthony the Great (Coptic Church)
  • Balthild
  • Hippolytus of Rome
  • Hyacintha Mariscotti
  • King Charles the Martyr (Society of King Charles the Martyr, Anglicanism)
  • Martina
  • Mutien-Marie Wiaux
  • Savina
  • Three Holy Hierarchs (Eastern Orthodox)
  • January 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi-related observances:
  • Martyrs' Day (India)
  • School Day of Non-violence and Peace (Spain)

Margaret, 10-day old giraffe, photographed 1-30-08, Chester,UK