On this day …
January 30, 2017
- In 1649, King Charles I of England was beheaded.
- In 1835, Richard Lawrence attempted the first presidential assassination, when he tried to shoot Andrew Jackson outside the Capitol.
- In 1847, Yerba Buena officially changed its name to San Francisco.
- In 1933, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as chancellor of Germany.
- In 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse in New Delhi.
- In 1969, The Beatles’ last public performance, an impromptu concert on the roof of the Apple Records building in London, was broken up by police.
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