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Today is Monday, Jan.
30, the 30th day of 2023.
There are 335 days left in
the year.
Today's Highlight in
History:
On Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf
Hitler became chancellor
of Germany.
On this date:
In 1649, England's King
Charles I was executed for
high treason.
In 1911, James White,
an intellectually disabled
Black young man who'd
been convicted of rape for
having sex with a 14-yearold
white girl when he was
16, was publicly hanged in
Bell County, Kentucky.
In 1945, during World
War II, a Soviet submarine
torpedoed the German ship
MV Wilhelm Gustloff in
the Baltic Sea with the loss
of more than 9,000 lives,
most of them war refugees;
roughly 1,000 people survived.
In 1948, Indian political
and spiritual leader Mohandas
K. Gandhi, 78, was
shot and killed in New Delhi
by Nathuram Godse, a
Hindu extremist.
In 1968, the Tet Offensive
began during the Vietnam
War as Communist
forces launched surprise
attacks against South Vietnamese
towns and cities;
although the Communists
were beaten back, the offensive
was seen as a major
setback for the U.S. and its
allies.
In 1969, The Beatles
staged an impromptu concert
atop Apple headquarters
in London; it was the
group's last public performance.
In 1972, 13 Roman Catholic
civil rights marchers
were shot to death by British
soldiers in Northern
Ireland on what became
known as "Bloody Sunday."
In 1981, an estimated
2 million New Yorkers
turned out for a ticker tape
parade honoring the American
hostages freed from
Iran.
In 2005, Iraqis voted in
their country's first free
election in a half-century;
President George W. Bush
called the balloting a resounding
success.
In 2006, Coretta Scott
King, widow of the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr.,
died in Rosarito Beach,
Mexico, at age 78.
In 2020, health officials
reported the first known
case in which the new
coronavirus was spread
from one person to another
in the United States. The
World Health Organization
declared the virus outbreak,
which had reached
more than a dozen countries,
to be a global emergency.
Dr. Keith
Roach