What happend on 30th January

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1948

1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

1948

Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is murdered by a Hindu extremist.

1945

KdF Ship Wilhelm Gustloff sunk in the Baltic Sea

1944

United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands.

1933

The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger radio series airs on station WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan.

1933

Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.

1925

Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.

1913

House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill.

1911

The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.

1911

The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.