January 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler sworn in as Chancellor of Germany
January 30, 1948 - Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated
January 30, 1972 - Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland
January 30, 1968 - North Vietnam launches Tet Offensive
January 30, 1962 - Two members of The Flying Wallendas are killed during a performance
January 30, 1969 - The Beatles give their last public performance
January 30, 1649 - King Charles I is executed
January 30, 1661 - Oliver Cromwell is posthumously executed for executing Charles I.
January 30, 1945 - Wilhelm Gustloff sinks, the worst martime disaster in history
January 30, 2000 - Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the ocean
January 30, 1889 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, are found dead in an apparent murder-suicide pact
January 30, 1825 - Richard Lawrence makes the first assassination attempt against a President
January 30, 1952 - Korean War peace talks break down
January 30, 1979 - Iran allows Ayatollah Khomeini back into the country
January 30, 1965 - Winston Churchill is buried
January 30, 1994 - Buffalo Bills lose their fourth consecutive Superbowl
January 30, 1882 - Franklin Roosevelt is born (bad day for conservatives only)
January 30, 1941 - Dick Cheney is born (bad day for liberals only)
Heh, I’d think the moral of the story is, piss of the Royalists all you want, they won’t catch on until you’re already dead anyway!
I suppose for the religious minded people, it was a pretty nasty threat, though. It just amuses me a little to think of them saying “You just wait until you’re dead - you’re really gonna get it!”
Crappy birthday, that year…