On this day …
January 30, 2015
- In 1649, King Charles I of England was beheaded.
- In 1835, Richard Lawrence attempted to assassinate President Andrew Jackson with a pistol.
- In 1847, the city of Yerba Buena in California was renamed San Francisco.
- In 1933, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
- In 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
- In 1965, an estimated one million people attended the funeral of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- In 1969, The Beatles gave their final public performance, an impromptu concert atop the Apple Records building in London.
- In 2003, Belgium officially recognized the legality of same-sex marriages.
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