Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: January 30
January 30, 2025 is the 30th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 335 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aquarius is your zodiac sign. Garnet is your modern birthstone. Emerald is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: January 30
- 1048 –Protestantism: The villagers around today’s Baden-Baden elect their own priest in defiance of the local bishop.
- 1649 –King Charles I of England is beheaded.
- 1835 –In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
- 1862 –The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
- 1911 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 1913 –The United Kingdom’s House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
- 1944 –World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
- 1948 –Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
- 1972 –Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1996 –Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
Who were born on January 30?
- 1816 –Nathaniel Prentice Banks, American politician, 25th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)
- 1899 –Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1972)
- 1914 –David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
- 1937 –Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
- 1941 –Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
- 1947 –Les Barker, English poet
- 1950 –Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
- 1955 –Curtis Strange, American golfer
- 1960 –Tony O'Dell, American actor
- 1968 –Tony Maudsley, British film actor
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