01-29-2011, 10:13 PM
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January 30th
1649 ~ King Charles I of England was beheaded.
1862 ~ The first Union ironclad warship, the USS Monitor was launched.
1933 ~ The first episode of the ''Lone Ranger'' radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit.
1948 ~ Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.
1968 ~ Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese soldiers launched the Tet offensive.
1972 ~ Thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday”.
1991 ~ The first major ground battle of the Gulf War was fought at the frontier port of Al Khafji in Saudi Arabia.
1994 ~ Péter Lékó became the youngest chess Grand Master.
1995 ~ Death of Gerald Durrell, Naturalist, Author, & Zookeeper.
2003 ~ Richard Reid, the "Shoe bomber" jailed for life.
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