January 30 in History

• January 30 is the 30th day of the year. There are 336 days remaining until the end of the year. 
• 1048 – The villagers around today's Baden-Baden elected their own priest in defiance of the local Bishop.
• 1615 – Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler and son of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, was born. He died in 1675.
• 1790 – The first boat built as a lifeboat was 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, was opened.
• 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Angesey to the north west coast of Wales, was opened.
• 1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a US President, Richard Lawrence attempted to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but failed  and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
• 1847 – Yerba Buena, California was renamed San Francisco.
• 1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, was launched.
• 1911 – An airplane from the destroyer USS Terry made the first airplane rescue at sea.
• 1913 – The UK’s House of Lords rejected the Irish Home Rule Bill.
• 1933 – Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1948 – Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
• 1956 – American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.’s home was bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• 1969 – The Beatles’ last public performance took place on the roof of Apple Recordsin London. Police broke up the concert.
• 1971 – Carol King’sTapestry album was released, it became the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sold 24 million copies.
• 1982 – The first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner,” was written.
• 1989 – The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan was closed.