January 30: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

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1. 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.
2. 1790 - The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
3. 1820 - Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery ofAntarctica.
4. 1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
5. 1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
6. 1933 - Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
7. 1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known for his non-violent freedom struggle, is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
8. 1975 - The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
9. 1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
10. 1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
11. Famous Birthdays: Franklin D. Roosevelt (American politician, 32nd President of the United States), Max Theiler (South African virologist, Nobel Prize laureate), Douglas Engelbart (American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse), Dick Cheney (American politician, 46th Vice President of the United States), Peter Agre (American physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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