We all know the significance of January 30 for India. What other important things happened on that day?
Wikipedia has a page which summarizes events, births and deaths for each day of the year, e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_30
Summarizing this page, here are a few things which may be of interest:
Starting with
Deaths:
1948: Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader
1948: Orville Wright, American inventor
1951: Ferdinand Porsche, German engineer and businessman
1991: John Bardeen, American double Nobel Prize winner
2007: Sidney Sheldon, American author
Births:
1882: Franklin Roosevelt, American president
1927: Olaf Palme, Swedish prime minister
1929: Hugh Tayfield, South African cricketer
1930: Gene Hackman, American actor
1937: Vanessa Redgrave, British actress
1937: Boris Spassky, Soviet chess player
1941: Dick Cheney, American vice-president
1951: Phil Collins, British musician
1990: Mitchell Starc, Australian cricketer
Events:
1933: Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
1968: North Vietnamese forces launch Tet Offensive against South Vietnamese forces.
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