Events
January 30
1790
– The first boat specializing as a lifeboat
is tested on the River Tyne.
1820 – Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity
Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed
San Francisco.
1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor
of Germany.
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.
1959 – MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest
ship afloat and "unsinkable" like
the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg on her
maiden voyage and sank, killing all 95 aboard.
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.
1995 – Workers from the National Institutes
of Health announce the success of clinical
trials testing the first preventive treatment
for sickle-cell disease.
2000 – Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya
Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic
Ocean, killing 169.
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