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, 2024 is the 30th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 336 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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
- 1661 –Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
- 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.
- 1925 –The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
- 1945 –World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9,400 people.
- 1971 –Carole King’s Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.
- 1972 –Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
- 1979 –A Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
- 1989 –The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
- 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?
- 133 –Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
- 1822 –Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
- 1859 –Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
- 1912 –Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
- 1959 –Mark Eitzel, American singer and musician (American Music Club)
- 1964 –Otis Smith, American basketball player
- 1974 –Christian Bale, English actor
- 1981 –Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
- 1981 –Jonathan Bender, American basketball player
- 1981 –Peter Crouch, English footballer
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