January 30

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1648 - Eighty Years War: The Treaty of Münster signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
1835 - In the first assassination attempt against an USA President, a mentally ill man named Richard Lawrence attempts to assassinate President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol. Both of Lawrence's pistols misfire, and Jackson proceeds to beat his would-be assassin with his cane.
1933 - Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
1945 - The German Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000 people.
1945 - World War II: Hitler gives his last ever public address; a radio address on the 12th anniversary of his coming to power. (A subsequent address on 24 February was not read by Hitler.)
1956 - American negro civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr's home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1972 - Bloody Sunday: United Kingdom British Paratroopers kill fourteen civil rights /anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
1996 - Suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed while in line for his unemployment benefit.